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    Jane Austen

    At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement…

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    Persuasion

    Jane Austen

    Anne Elliot, twenty-seven and still single, seems destined for spinsterhood. In her youth, she broke off an engagement to penniless Captain Wentworth at the insistence of her friend Lady Russell…

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    George Eliot and The Woman Question

    Gillian Beer

    This is an enlarged edition of Professor Beer’s widely acclaimed volume on George Eliot which initially appeared in the “Key Women Writers’ series issued by The Harvester Press.

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    The Romance

    Gillian Beer

    First published in 1970, this work provides an overview of the Romance from the medieval period to the 20th century and tracks how the genre has changed with time, including…

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    Routledge Revivals: Arguing With The Past (1989): Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney

    Gillian Beer

    First published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range of writing from earlier periods and on recent narrative theory. Gillian Beer looks at…

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    Routledge Revivals: Arguing With The Past (1989): Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney

    Gillian Beer

    First published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range of writing from earlier periods and on recent narrative theory. Gillian Beer looks at…

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    The Romance

    Gillian Beer

    First published in 1970, this work provides an overview of the Romance from the medieval period to the 20th century and tracks how the genre has changed with time, including…

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    In(ter)discipline: New Languages for Criticism

    This book examines and breaks the routine to propose alternative languages for criticism. It shows the commitments of some of the most distinctive voices in criticism, from literature, music, the…

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    Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground: Essays by Gillian Beer

    Gillian Beer

    This book for the first time brings together Gillian Beer’s essays on Virginia Woolf.

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    Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll

    Gillian Beer

    An examination of Carroll’s books about Alice explores the contextual knowledge of the time period in which it was written, addressing such topics as time, games, mathematics, and taxonomies.

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    Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll

    Gillian Beer

    Alice in Space reveals the contexts within which the Alice books first lived, bringing back the zest to jokes lost over time and poignancy to hidden references.

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    Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

    Gillian Beer (University of Cambridge)

    Updated for the anniversary year, Gillian Beer’s classic Darwin’s Plots continues to open up new approaches to Darwin’s thinking and to its effects in the culture of his contemporaries. This…

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    Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

    Gillian Beer (University of Cambridge)

    Updated for the anniversary year, Gillian Beer’s classic Darwin’s Plots continues to open up new approaches to Darwin’s thinking and to its effects in the culture of his contemporaries. This…

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    Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830-1970: Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer

    This book presents fourteen essays by British and American writers on literature, science, and psychoanalysis. Written in honour of Gillian Beer, with emphasis on the evolutionary sciences in 19th-century Britain…

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    In(ter)discipline: New Languages for Criticism

    This book examines and breaks the routine to propose alternative languages for criticism. It shows the commitments of some of the most distinctive voices in criticism, from literature, music, the…

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    On the Origin of Species

    Charles Darwin

    In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. The present edition provides a detailed discussion of his theories and…

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    Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

    Gillian Beer (University of Cambridge)

    This second edition of Professor Dame Gillian Beer’s highly acclaimed book incorporates a new preface by the author and a foreword by the distinguished American scholar George Levine. ‘… a…

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    Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

    Gillian Beer (University of Cambridge)

    Updated for the anniversary year, Gillian Beer’s classic Darwin’s Plots continues to open up new approaches to Darwin’s thinking and to its effects in the culture of his contemporaries. This…

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    George Eliot and the Woman Question

    Gillian Beer

    This is an enlarged edition of Professor Beer’s volume on George Eliot which initially appeared in the ‘Key Women Writers’ series issued by The Harvester Press.

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    Creative Lives and Works: Frank Kermode, George Steiner, Gillian Beer and Christopher Ricks

    Alan Macfarlane

    Creative Lives and Works is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Alan Macfarlane. The current volume is on four of England’s foremost…

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    Between the Acts

    Virginia Woolf

    Highly symbolic, and dealing with many of the themes that were most dear to Virginia Woolf, such as the condition of the individual in the current of history, sexual ambiguity…

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    Love and Mr Lewisham

    H. G. Wells

    Young, impoverished and ambitious, science student Mr Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his life his…

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    The ‘Wolfman’ and Other Cases

    Sigmund Freud

    Offers an opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light.

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    Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter

    Gillian Beer (King Edward VII Professor and President, King Edward VII Professor and President, Clare Hall, Cambridge)

    Science always raises more questions than it can contain. These challenging essays track encounters between science, literature, and other forms of emotional experience. Calling on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing, including…

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