Product Description: From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Emma, edited by Frances Ferguson, presents Jane Austen's novel with illuminations from various contexts, ranging from first reviews, to the entertainments of riddles and charades, the vogue of gothic fiction, the plight of governesses that had their situations compared to slavery, and the economy of English estates...read more

Product Description: Over the past four decades, Geoffrey Hartman's voice has been one of the most important and profound in contemporary literary theory. Most noted for his scholarship on Wordsworth and Romanticism, Hartman developed throughout his work an original conception of the relationship between literary and critical writing that is still considered a deeply significant contribution to the field...read more

Product Description: Pornography first developed in western Europe during the late eighteenth century in tandem with the rise of utilitarianism, the philosophical position that stresses the importance of something's usefulness over its essence. Through incisive readings of Sade, Flaubert, Lawrence, and Bret Easton Ellis, Frances Ferguson here shows how pornography—like utilitarian social structures—diverts our attention from individual identities to actions and renders more clearly the social value of such actions through concrete literary representations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A fast-paced police drama of murder and corruption from the author of Missing Person. 'A splended yarn.' - GLOUCESTER CITIZEN 'A promising debut...' - LIVERPOOL DAILY POST When Jane Perry accepts a promotion from CID to Kent Community Liaison, her first engagement is to attend the funeral of ex-mayor Richard Musthill - but chaos erupts with the discovery of a headless corpse already occupying the grave...read more

Product Description: 'Could soon be doing for Canterbury what Morse has done for Oxford.' - KENT TODAY When a local schoolgirl goes missing, it seems like Detective-Sergeant Jane Perry's first chance to prove herself. The parents are strangely evasive and hostile, though the girl seems to have vanished without trace...read more

Product Description: At the close of the 18th century, the aesthetics of the sublime were shaped by two conflicting views: the empiricism of Edmund Burke and the formalist idealism of Immanuel Kant. Today, theoretical work struggles once again with this philosophical issue...read more

Product Description: These essays, originally comprising an issue of Representations, explore the relation between gender, eroticism, and violence through close analysis of a range of both high and popular cultural forms, from R. Howard Bloch on medieval theology to Carol Clover on contemporary slasher films...read more

Sara Farrow looks forward to writing the history of the Lorivel parfumerie, but when she arrives in France she encounters only suspicion and resentment