Josie Billington: 7 books

Book cover of Is Literature Healthy?

Is Literature Healthy?

The Literary Agenda

by Josie Billington
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...
Book cover of Scenes of Clerical Life
by George Eliot, Josie Billington
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015

'the only true knowledge of our fellow-man is that which enables us to feel with him' George Eliot's first published work consisted of three short novellas: 'The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton', 'Mr Gilfil's Love-Story', and 'Janet's Repentance'. Their depiction of the lives of ordinary...
Book cover of The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 3
by Elisabeth Jay, Alan Shelston, Joanne Shattock
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017

A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.
Book cover of The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part II vol 4
by Elisabeth Jay, Alan Shelston, Joanne Shattock
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017

A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.
Book cover of The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 1
by Elisabeth Jay, Alan Shelston, Joanne Shattock
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017

A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.
Book cover of The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 2
by Elisabeth Jay, Alan Shelston, Joanne Shattock
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017

A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.
Book cover of The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 5
by Elisabeth Jay, Alan Shelston, Joanne Shattock
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017

A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.
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