Reading After Theory(1st Edition) by ValentineCunningham Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2002 by Wiley-Blackwell Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-0-631-22168-5, ISBN: 0-631-22168-9
"All What Jazz? Or, The Incredibly Disappearing Text On me your voice falls as
... and for the improvisatory nature of reading (a set of suggestions spoiled
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"This volume distils into two hundred pages some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian period. Distils into one volume the key poems of the Victorian era. Organised chronologically, allowing readers to perceive continuities and changes through the century. Includes a general introduction, giving readers an overview of the poets and the period. Represents texts in their entirety where possible."
Victorian Poets(1st Edition) A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Reader) by ValentineCunningham, Wiley-Blackwell Paperback, 442 Pages, Published 2014 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-0-631-19914-4, ISBN: 0-631-19914-4
"Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the 1890s. Presents key criticism on Victorian poetry Features contributions from a variety of scholars in the field Illustrates the full range of critical approaches to the Victorian poets, including attention to texts, words, forms, modes, and sub-genres Offers fresh reinterpretations, many ..."
"Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers readings in the ecology of left and radical writing from the Romantic period to the present. While early ecocriticism tended to elide the bitter divisions within and between societies, recent practitioners of ecofeminism, environmental justice, and social ecology have argued that the social, the economic and the environmental have to be ..."
"Lear is too much. There’s too much to stomach, an overdoing of massive wickednesses which rightly provoked perhaps the most famous reaction to King Lear ever, Dr Samuel Johnson’s horror in his Prefaces to his Shakespeare (1765) over the blinding of Gloucester –“an act too horrid to be endured in dramatick exhibition” – and the death of Cordelia: “contrary to the natural ideas of justice, to the hope of the reader, and, what is yet more ..."
The Victorians(1st Edition) An Anthology Of Poetry and Poetics (Blackwell Anthologies) by ValentineCunningham Paperback, 1,108 Pages, Published 2000 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-0-631-19916-8, ISBN: 0-631-19916-0
"Valentine Cunningham's magnificent anthology presents the cornucopia of Victorian poetry as never before within a single volume.All the major poets of the period - Tennyson, Robert Browning, John Clare, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Brontes, the Rossettis, George Eliot, Swinburne, William Morris, Housman, Hardy, Wilde, Yeats - are very generously represented, with complete texts of a wide range of key poems. Also represente ..."
Adam Bede(Updated) (The World's Classics) by George Eliot, ValentineCunningham Paperback, 656 Pages, Published 1996 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283166-8, ISBN: 0-19-283166-6
"In Adam Bede (1859) George Eliot took the well-worn tale of a lovely dairy-maid seduced by a careless squire, and out if it created a wonderfully innovative and sympathetic portrait of the lives of ordinary Midlands working people--their labors and loves, their beliefs, their talk. This edition reprints the original broadsheet reports of the murder case that was a starting point for the book, and detailed notes illuminate Eliot's many l ..."
Spanish Front(1st Edition) Writers on the Civil War by ValentineCunningham, Cunnigham Valentine Paperback, 421 Pages, Published 1986 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-282006-8, ISBN: 0-19-282006-0
"Offering a vivid, moving, and often surprising, cross-section of the writing generated by the most momentous political and cultural flashpoint of the 1930s--the Spanish Civil War--this anthology contains works by a vast array of prominent literary figures, including W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Stephen Spender, Samuel Beckett, Aldous Huxley, Hugh MacDiarmid, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, John Dos Passos, Jean-Paul S ..."
The Voyage(1st Edition) (Capuchin Classics) by Charles Morgan, ValentineCunningham Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2009 by Capuchin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-9559602-0-8, ISBN: 0-9559602-0-7
"Set in the Charente country and the Paris music halls of the 1930s, The Voyage tells of the travails of one man’s quest for lovelove for a woman, and love for France. Available once more to a modern readership, the story that is widely regarded as Charles Morgan’s finest work is that rare thing: a novel with appeal across ages and tastes. It is at once romance and adventure, a hymn to France."
The Victorians An Anthology Of Poetry and Poetics (Blackwell Anthologies) by ValentineCunningham, Wiley-Blackwell Hardcover, 1,108 Pages, Published 1999 by Blackwell Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-631-19915-1, ISBN: 0-631-19915-2
"This book offers a unique and arresting variety of Victorian poetic producers from the street balladists and self-taught working-class poets, the Pre-Raphaelites and Spasmodics to the medievalizers, university wits, social realists and hymn ..."
"Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers readings in the ecology of left and radical writing from the Romantic period to the present. While early ecocriticism tended to elide the bitter divisions within and between societies, recent practitioners of ecofeminism, environmental justice, and social ecology have argued that the social, the economic and t ..."
Reading After Theory(1st Edition) (Blackwell Manifestos) by ValentineCunningham Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2002 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-0-631-22167-8, ISBN: 0-631-22167-0
"Valentine Cunningham's controversial manifesto asks what will and should happen to reading in the post-theory era. His account examines the spread of literary theory from the 1960s, when it was considered highly contentious, to the present time, when theoretical approaches are taken for granted across a range of disciplines. Whilst acknowledging the necessity of theory for reading and recognising the good it has done, he strongly critic ..."
"This wide-ranging study of British writers and poets of the 1930s--including Auden, Isherwood, Spender, Waugh, and Greene-- examines the masterpieces of that momentous decade, not in linguistic isolation, but in the contexts--social, political, historical, ideological, and personal--in which they were composed. Cunningham maps out the dominant images and concerns, nothing less than the central obsessions and imposing images of the '30s ..."
"This wide-ranging study of British writers of the 1930s examines the masterpieces of that momentous decade, not in linguistic isolation, but in the contexts--social, political, historical, ideological, and personal--in which they were composed. Cunningham maps out the dominant images and concerns, nothing less than the central obsessions and imposing images of the '30s imagination. He analyzes the obsession with violence, the "destructi ..."
Adam Bede(Updated) (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot, ValentineCunningham Paperback, 656 Pages, Published 1998 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283495-9, ISBN: 0-19-283495-9
"In Adam Bede (1859) George Eliot took the well-worn tale of a lovely dairy-maid seduced by a careless squire, and out if it created a wonderfully innovative and sympathetic portrait of the lives of ordinary Midlands working people--their labors and loves, their beliefs, their talk. This edition reprints the original broadsheet reports of the murder case that was a starting point for the book, and detailed notes illuminate Eliot's many l ..."
"As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry ..."
"An anthology of poetry and prose written by British volunteers during the Spanish Civil War. Among the writers included are Clive Branson, Miles Tomalin, Stephen Spender, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, George Barker and Laurie Lee. Valentine Cunningham provides an introductory essay."
The Life of Charles Dickens(1st Edition) A Critical Biography (Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies) by ValentineCunningham, David. Cooper Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-0-631-16688-7, ISBN: 0-631-16688-2
Victorian Poetry Now(1st Edition) Poets, Poems and Poetics (Blackwell Guides to Literature) by ValentineCunningham Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2011 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-0-631-20827-3, ISBN: 0-631-20827-5
"This book is the definitive guide to Victorian poetry, which its author approaches in the light of modern critical concerns and contemporary contexts.Valentine Cunningham exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of the poetry produced in this period and offers dazzling close readings of a number of well-known poemsDraws on the work of major Victorian poets and their works as well as many of the less well-known poets and poemsReads poems and poe ..."
Victorian Poetry Now(1st Edition) Poets, Poems and Poetics by ValentineCunningham Hardcover, 552 Pages, Published 2011 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-0-631-20826-6, ISBN: 0-631-20826-7
"This book is the definitive guide to Victorian poetry, which its author approaches in the light of modern critical concerns and contemporary contexts. * Valentine Cunningham exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of the poetry produced in this period and offers dazzling close readings of a number of well-known poems * Draws on the work of major Victorian poets and their works as well as many of the less well-known poets and poems * Reads poem ..."