Literature
Featured Books
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The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets
Edited by Michael J. Allen
‘The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets’ is a comprehensive collection consisting of over three thousand Victorian sonnets written by Victorian poets between 1836 and the early years of twentieth century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318484
February 2011
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£795.00 / $795.00‘The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets’ is a comprehensive collection consisting of over three thousand Victorian sonnets written by Victorian poets between 1836 and the early years of twentieth century.
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George Eliot’s Grammar of Being
Melissa Anne Raines
Drawing on original manuscripts and Victorian psychological theory, this study shows that George Eliot was an author who shaped her sentences as carefully as she wanted her public to read them.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857289681
February 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00Drawing on original manuscripts and Victorian psychological theory, this study shows that George Eliot was an author who shaped her sentences as carefully as she wanted her public to read them.
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Thinking on Thresholds
The Poetics of Transitive Spaces
Edited by Subha Mukherji
Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, the essays in this book address the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857286659
February 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, the essays in this book address the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art.
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Christian Fiction and Religious Realism in the Novels of Dostoevsky
Wil van den Bercken
This study offers a literary analysis and theological evaluation of the Christian themes in the five great novels of Dostoevsky - 'Crime and Punishment', 'The Idiot', 'The Adolescent', 'The Devils' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857289766
January 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This study offers a literary analysis and theological evaluation of the Christian themes in the five great novels of Dostoevsky – ‘Crime and Punishment’, ‘The Idiot’, ‘The Adolescent’, ‘The Devils’ and ‘The Brothers Karamazov’.
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Locating the Anglo-Indian Self in Ruskin Bond
A Postcolonial Review
Debashis Bandyopadhyay
This study explores the dialogue between the biographical and authorial selves of the writer Ruskin Bond, whose liminal subjectivity is informed by the fantasies of space and time.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9789380601045
January 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00This study explores the dialogue between the biographical and authorial selves of the writer Ruskin Bond, whose liminal subjectivity is informed by the fantasies of space and time.
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The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory
Peter Auger
foreword by Robert Douglas-FairhurstThorough on the essentials and generous in its intellectual scope, 'The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory' is a guide to the literary terms most relevant to students and readers of English literature today.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781843318712
July 2010
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£22.95 / $22.95Thorough on the essentials and generous in its intellectual scope, ‘The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory’ is a guide to the literary terms most relevant to students and readers of English literature today.
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Anton Chekhov Through the Eyes of Russian Thinkers
Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov
Edited by Olga Tabachnikova
This volume offers modern perspectives, from a strong international team of scholars, on the perception of Anton Chekhov's works by three leading cultural figures of the Silver Age of Russian culture - Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318415
July 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume offers modern perspectives, from a strong international team of scholars, on the perception of Anton Chekhov’s works by three leading cultural figures of the Silver Age of Russian culture – Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov.
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Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture
The History of Understanding and Understanding of History
Lakshmi Bandlamudi
'Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of History' explores the interrelationships between individual and cultural historical dynamics in interpreting texts, using key concepts from Bakhtin’s theory of dialogics.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318354
May 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of History’ explores the interrelationships between individual and cultural historical dynamics in interpreting texts, using key concepts from Bakhtin’s theory of dialogics.
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Virtual Voyages
Travel Writing and the Antipodes 1605-1837
Dr. Paul Longley Arthur
'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318002
March 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Virtual Voyages’ is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive ‘great south land’ told through the literature of ‘imaginary voyages’.
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The Constitution of Shelley’s Poetry
The Argument of Language in Prometheus Unbound
Edward T. Duffy
‘The Constitution of Shelley’s Poetry’ is a close philosophical reading of ‘Prometheus Unbound’ from the perspective of the argument or drama of language played out in its pages.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843317821
July 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00‘The Constitution of Shelley’s Poetry’ is a close philosophical reading of ‘Prometheus Unbound’ from the perspective of the argument or drama of language played out in its pages.
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Russia’s Penal Colony in the Far East
A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin"
Vlas Doroshevich
translated by Andrew A. Gentes
introduction by Andrew A. Gentes‘Russia’s Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich’s “Sakhalin”’ is the first English language translation of the Russian journalist Vlas Doroshevich’s 1903 account of his visit to tsarist Russia’s largest penal colony, Sakhalin, in the north Pacific.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843313090
July 2009
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£130.00 / $130.00‘Russia’s Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich’s “Sakhalin”’ is the first English language translation of the Russian journalist Vlas Doroshevich’s 1903 account of his visit to tsarist Russia’s largest penal colony, Sakhalin, in the north Pacific.
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Another Canon
Indian Texts and Traditions in English
Makarand R. Paranjape
Both rigorous and readable, ‘Another Canon’ is an original contribution to the study of Indian English literature.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9788190757003
July 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00Both rigorous and readable, ‘Another Canon’ is an original contribution to the study of Indian English literature.
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Decadent Verse
An Anthology of Late-Victorian Poetry, 1872-1900
Edited by Caroline Blyth
A critical collection of late-Victorian poetry, fully annotated and explored, bringing to life the often overlooked but integral verse of the period.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843313021
February 2009
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£175.00 / $175.00A critical collection of late-Victorian poetry, fully annotated and explored, bringing to life the often overlooked but integral verse of the period.
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Govind Narayan’s Mumbai
An Urban Biography from 1863
Edited and translated by Murali Ranganathan
foreword by Gyan PrakashThe first ever book on Mumbai written in the Marathi language, this is a historically fascinating and revealing urban biography of nineteenth-century India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843312772
March 2008
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£115.00 / $115.00The first ever book on Mumbai written in the Marathi language, this is a historically fascinating and revealing urban biography of nineteenth-century India.
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Victorian Fiction and the Insights of Sympathy
An Alternative to the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Brigid Lowe
This ground-breaking study of sympathetic readings in Victorian fiction breathes new life into contemporary literary criticism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843312338
March 2007
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£115.00 / $115.00This ground-breaking study of sympathetic readings in Victorian fiction breathes new life into contemporary literary criticism.
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Bengal Partition Stories
An Unclosed Chapter
Edited by Bashabi Fraser
Through oral histories, interviews and fictional retellings, 'Bengal Partition Stories' unearths and articulates the collective memories of a people traumatised by the brutal division of their homeland.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843312253
September 2006
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£115.00 / $115.00Through oral histories, interviews and fictional retellings, ‘Bengal Partition Stories’ unearths and articulates the collective memories of a people traumatised by the brutal division of their homeland.
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Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century
Filling the Blank Spaces
Edited by Tim Youngs
An insightful and illuminating collection of essays on the political and cultural dynamics of travel literature in the nineteenth century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843312185
September 2006
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£115.00 / $115.00An insightful and illuminating collection of essays on the political and cultural dynamics of travel literature in the nineteenth century.
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Repositioning Victorian Sciences
Shifting Centres in Nineteenth-Century Thinking
Edited by David Clifford, Elisabeth Wadge, Alex Warwick, Martin Willis
An intriguing look at the marginal sciences of the nineteenth century and their influence on the culture of the period.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843312123
May 2006
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£115.00 / $115.00An intriguing look at the marginal sciences of the nineteenth century and their influence on the culture of the period.
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The Poetry of Anna Akhmatova
Living in Different Mirrors
Alexandra Harrington
Outlines a fresh and coherent framework, reviewing Akhmatova's oeuvre in its totality for the first time.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843312222
May 2006
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£115.00 / $115.00Outlines a fresh and coherent framework, reviewing Akhmatova’s oeuvre in its totality for the first time.
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Dostoevsky and the Dynamics of Religious Experience
Malcolm Jones
One of the world's foremost experts on Dostoevsky presents a new study, focusing on the religious concerns of the enigmatic author.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843312055
September 2005
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£115.00 / $115.00One of the world’s foremost experts on Dostoevsky presents a new study, focusing on the religious concerns of the enigmatic author.
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Unmapped Countries
Biological Visions in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
Edited by Anne-Julia Zwierlein
An enlightening, multi-disciplinary investigation into the fascinating and courageous scientific explorations of the nineteenth century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311591
March 2005
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£115.00 / $115.00An enlightening, multi-disciplinary investigation into the fascinating and courageous scientific explorations of the nineteenth century.
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Elegy for an Age
The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature
John D. Rosenberg
A magisterial study of the Victorian longing for the past in the face of a turbulent present.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311560
February 2005
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£115.00 / $115.00A magisterial study of the Victorian longing for the past in the face of a turbulent present.
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Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and the Ethical Foundations of Narrative
Reading, Narrating, Scripting
Sarah Young
In considering Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot', a novel less easily defined in terms of plot and ideas than his other major fictional works, Sarah Young addresses problems in the novel unresolved by previous interpretations, and in doing so fills a significant gap in Dostoevsky studies.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311140
November 2004
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£115.00 / $115.00In considering Dostoevsky’s ‘The Idiot’, a novel less easily defined in terms of plot and ideas than his other major fictional works, Sarah Young addresses problems in the novel unresolved by previous interpretations, and in doing so fills a significant gap in Dostoevsky studies.
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John Keble in Context
Edited by Kirstie Blair
A unique and timely volume, offering the first major reassessment of Keble's work for several decades.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311461
November 2004
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£115.00 / $115.00A unique and timely volume, offering the first major reassessment of Keble’s work for several decades.