Ruth(Updated) (Oxford World's Classics) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, TimDolin Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2011 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-958195-5, ISBN: 0-19-958195-9
"Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth (1853) was the first mainstream novel to make a fallen woman its eponymous heroine. It is a remarkable story of love, of the sanctuary and tyranny of the family, and of the consequences of lies and deception, one that lays bare Victorian hypocrisy and sexual double-standards. Shocking to contemporary readers, its radical utopian vision of "a pure woman faithfully presented" predates Hardy's Tess by nearly forty ..."
The Nineteenth Century Ser.(1st Edition) Mistress of the House : Women of Property in the Victorian Novel by TimDolin Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-26744-2, ISBN: 1-138-26744-9
"This exploration of gender and property ownership in eight important novels argues that property is a decisive undercurrent in narrative structures and modes, as well as an important gender signature in society and culture. Tim Dolin suggests that the formal development of nineteenth-century domestic fiction can only be understood in the context of changes in the theory and laws of property: indeed femininity and its representation can ..."
George Eliot by TimDolin, Varios Autores Paperback, 302 Pages, Published 2005 by Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-284047-9, ISBN: 0-19-284047-9
"In a landmark essay, Virginia Woolf rescued George Eliot from almost four decades of indifference and scorn when she wrote of the "searching power and reflective richness" of Eliot's fiction. Novels such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss reflect Eliot's complex and sometimes contradictory ideas about society, the artist, the role of women, and the interplay of science and religion. In this book, Tim Dolin examines Eliot's life an ..."
Mistress of the House(1st Edition) Women of Property in the Victorian Novel (The Nineteenth Century Series) by TimDolin, Dollin Tim Hardcover, 168 Pages, Published 1997 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-85928-184-0, ISBN: 1-85928-184-2
"This exploration of gender and property ownership in eight important novels argues that property is a decisive undercurrent in narrative structures and modes, as well as an important gender signature in society and culture. Tim Dolin suggests that the formal development of nineteenth-century domestic fiction can only be understood in the context of changes in the theory and laws of property: indeed femininity and its representation can ..."
"Coming to PBS in January 2009- a MasterpieceTM Classic production of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'UrbervillesTess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d'Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin- a journey that will see he ..."
"A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is edited with notes by Tim Dolin and an introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet in "Penguin Classics". When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very ..."
A Pair of Blue Eyes(Reprint) (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hardy, TimDolin, Alan Manford Paperback, 374 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953849-2, ISBN: 0-19-953849-2
"Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his courtship of his first wife, Emma. Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride has little experience of the world beyond, and becomes entangled with two men: the boyish architect, Stephen Smith, and the older literary man, Henry Knight. The former friends becom ..."
"This critical edition of Thomas Hardy's 1891 British Victorian novel reprints the authoritative second impression of the 1920 Wessex edition together with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised - that read Tess of the d'Urbervilles from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliogr ..."
"Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London with her family acting incognito as her servants. Turning the male-dominated literary world to her advantage, she happily exploits the attentions of four very different suitors. Will she bestow her hand upon the richest of them, or on the man she loves? Ethelberta Petherwin, alias Berta Chick ..."
"Required Reading examines for the first time what students have read and studied in the disciplines of English and literary studies at Australian schools and Universities after 1945. On the basis of this primary evidence the authors challenge enduring myths of curriculum history, the history of literary studies, critical theory, and cultural studies. They fill out the picture of how students were encouraged to read, when, where, and in ..."
"This volume collects Fay Zwicky's body of poetic work from her seven books alongside poetry uncollected and unpublished. It demonstrates an erudite and passionate crafter of language, and places Fay Zwicky at the summit of Australian poetry. "Zwicky is one of the world's finest poets; her sophistications of form and theme remind one of Akhmatova, Szymborska, Adrienne Rich and William Blake. With poise and control, she tracks the persona ..."
A Pair of Blue Eyes(2nd Edition) (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hardy, TimDolin, Alan Manford Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2005 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-284073-8, ISBN: 0-19-284073-8
"Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his courtship of his first wife, Emma. Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride has little experience of the world beyond, and becomes entangled with two men: the boyish architect, Stephen Smith, and the older literary man, Henry Knight. The former friends beco ..."
"Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfa ..."
George Eliot(Reprint) by TimDolin Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-955610-6, ISBN: 0-19-955610-5
"In a landmark essay, Virginia Woolf rescued George Eliot from almost four decades of indifference and scorn when she wrote of the 'searching power and reflective richness' of Eliot's fiction. Novels such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss reflect Eliot's complex and sometimes contradictory ideas about society, the artist, the role of women, and the interplay of science and religion. In this book Tim Dolin examines Eliot's lif ..."
"For more than thirty years, books and essays on Thomas Hardy have been at the forefront of developments in academic literary studies. This collection brings together exciting new readings of Hardy's work by established and emerging critics which also reflect on continuities and changes in contemporary literary studies. Covering a wide range of topics and approaches, Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies shows how Hardy's writin ..."
"'I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre.' George Eliot Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in Madame Beck's school in 'Villette'. Strongly drawn to the fiery autocratic schoolmaster Monsieur Paul Emanuel, Lucy is compelled by Madame Beck's jealous interference to assert her right to ..."
The Nineteenth Century Ser. Mistress of the House : Women of Property in the Victorian Novel by TimDolin 168 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-351-91720-9, ISBN: 1-351-91720-X
"As Roger Henkle argues, Meredith's comic idea belongs to 'the "high culture"
movement of the 1870s and 1880s' and 'acquires coherence and ... Diana of the
Crossways, which considers the case of a woman politicized by birth and
marriage who aspires to aestheticism, ... admirer John Redworth sets out in the
late afternoon for the 'old straggling red brick house ..., a stone's throw from a
fingerpost on."
"Literature as History presents a selection of specially commissioned essays by a range of key contemporary thinkers on the interdisciplinary study of literature and history. The unifying theme is the interrelationship between literary / cultural production and its historical moment. The essays in the collection are astute and exciting in terms of their engagement with ever-changing developments in critical and theoretical practice while ..."