Literary companions, book reviews and guides

With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware that Africans arrived in North America before the Pilgrims.

In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Linda Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history.

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991.

In this book, Abby L.

The Art of John Webster, first published in 1972, is a study of the three extant plays of Webster known to be solely his work.

Providing an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential Guide contextualises the major research trends, debates and ideas that have emerged in Comics Studies over the past decades.

It has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, the man heralded as the greatest writer in the English language and England's national poet, died.

A comprehensive and engaging overview of English language dictionary-making from the first monolingual English dictionary to the current day.

Through her selection of fourteen essays, Tess Cosslett charts the rediscovery by feminist critics of the Victorian Women Poets such as Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti, and the subsequent developments as critics use a range of modern theoretical approaches to understand and promote the work of these non-canonical and marginalised poets.

Considering Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector's literature as a case study and a source of theory, Writing by Ear presents an aural theory of the novel based on readings of Near to the Wild Heart (1943), The Besieged City (1949), The Passion According to G.

The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor continues Bradley M.

First published in 1980.

The literary study of emotion is part of an important revisionary movement among scholars eager to recast emotional politics for the twenty-first century.

First published in 1902, this volume contains an extensive, technical scholarly introduction, followed by three Middle-English versions of the Rule of St.

The Sultana was a sidewheel Mississippi steamboat carrying almost two thousand recently-released Union prisoners-of-war back north at the end of the Civil War.

Explains the ancient astrological system sacred to the Cherokee and how to use it in the modern world *; Provides easy-to-use format for determining what signs and numbers rule the day of your birth and what influence they have on your destiny *; Includes a traditional Cherokee ephemeris through 2015 An essential aspect of Cherokee religion is the belief that everything on Earth is the reflection of a star.

Leading international experts provide an essential framework for the interdisciplinary study of Dante and the late Middle Ages.

Few events have sparked more legends and stories of the supernatural than America's Civil War.

In the lead-up to the Civil War, Virginia, like other southern states, amassed a large public debt while striving to improve transportation infrastructure and stimulate economic development.

At Fault is an exhilarating celebration of risk-taking in the work of James Joyce.

In the early 1800s, American critics warned about the danger of literature as a distraction from reality.

What is object-relations theory and what does it have to do with literary studies?

According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as "e;doers of the word.

Despite its fascinating cast of characters, host of combats large and small, and its impact on the course of the Civil War, surprisingly little ink has been spilled on the conflict’s final months in the Carolinas.

Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality is a comprehensive collection which provides, for the first time in one volume, many texts unavailable outside specialised academic libraries.

Ein detaillierter Wegweiser durch Prousts JahrhundertromanDieser Band gibt einen Überblick über Prousts Leben und familiären Hintergrund, über die Entstehung von »Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit«, über die Struktur, Rezeption und zeitgeschichtlichen Grundlagen des Werks.

In Island Bodies, Rosamond King examines sexualities, violence, and repression in the Caribbean experience.

Most criticism of The Lord of the Rings trilogy emphasizes the most likely heroes in the tales: Aragorn, Frodo, Gandalf, and even Sam.

An international team of scholars covers every aspect of one of the most famous books in the English language.

This special edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontes commemorates the bicentenary of Emily Bronte's birth in July 1818 and provides comprehensive and detailed information about the lives, works, and reputations of the Brontes - the three sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, their father, and their brother Branwell.

An entirely new analysis of the battle for Fox's Gap during the battle for South Mountain.

In this book, Hertha D.

Pericles: Critical Essays brings together the most essential critical essays and theatrical reviews of Shakespeare's play from the late 17th century to the present, providing a representative gathering of critical opinion of Pericles over the centuries.

The Battle of Shepherdstown and the End of the Campaign is the third and final volume of Ezra Carman’s magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862.

Different international relations theorists have studied political change, but all fall short of sufficiently integrating human reactions, feelings, and responses to change in their theories.

Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement.

Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O'Grady published a three-volume History of Ireland that simultaneously recounted the heroic ancient past of the Irish people and helped to usher in a new era of cultural revival and political upheaval.

First published in 1967.

The novels of Charlotte and Emily Bronte have become canonical texts for the application of twentieth century literary and cultural theory.

In this book, which was first published in 1983, Frank Kermode looks in particular at the revived Russian Formalism, a highly original body of literary theory that flourished in the years immediately following the Revolution, and at the work of Roman Jakobson, one of its most distinguished exponents.

Want to become a classic novel buff, or expand your reading of some of the finest novels ever published?

Five months after the election of Abraham Lincoln, which had revealed the fracturing state of the nation, Confederates fired on Fort Sumter and the fight for the Union began in earnest.

Finalist, 2018, Reference, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardThe Maps of Fredericksburg: An Atlas of the Fredericksburg Campaign, Including all Cavalry Operations, September 18, 1862 - January 22, 1863 continues Bradley M.

Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions.

Winner of the 2023 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for best book in the category of Jewish literature and linguistics Traditionally the scene of some of London's poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods, the East End of London has long been misunderstood as abject and deviant.

In antebellum society, women were regarded as ideal nurses because of their sympathetic natures.

Elizabeth Ham's 1845 novel, The Ford Family in Ireland, provides a snapshot, based on the personal experiences of the author, of a pivotal period in that country's history.