Literary companions, book reviews and guides

Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section Moral electricitya term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society.

The Dooleys of Richmond is the biography of two generations of a dynamic and philanthropic immigrant family in the urban South.

First published in 1971.

This is an accessible, path-breaking, and carefully-curated Companion written by leading scholars of the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

Scarlett O'Hara munched on a radish and vowed never to go hungry again.

Is your creative writing in need of inspiration?

American women novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries registered a call for a new sexual freedom, Dale Bauer contends.

Learning is the soul of our species.

This Companion features thirteen essays from leading international experts on William Carlos Williams, covering his major poetry and prose works.

Based on comparative readings of contemporary books from Latin America, Spain, and the United States, the essays in this book present a radical critique against strategies of literary appropriation that were once thought of as neutral, and even concomitant, components of the writing process.

Vladimir Sorokin is the most prominent and the most controversial contemporary Russian writer.

Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation of emerging nations in Latin America.

The most comprehensive history of literature written in French ever produced in English.

A compelling, comprehensive, and substantive introduction to the work of David Foster Wallace.

The Forty-Eighters of Possum Creek: A Texas Civil War Story is a departure for State House Press.

References to weaving and binding are ubiquitous in Anglo-Saxon literature.

This book traces the major writing of New Orleans through its five most famous streets as well as its outskirts.

This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected bonds of union forged among diverse peoples in the Ohio-Kentucky borderlands furthered emancipation through a period of spiraling chaos between 1830 and 1865.

The object of this study, first published in 1980, is to dispel the view that James Joyce had no political views.

Take an intimate tour through the life and works of Stephen King, made vivid with rare photos and ephemera from King's personal collection.

This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism.

This Companion presents key texts, authors, themes, and contexts of Latina/o literature and highlights its increasing significance in world literature.

**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world.

Henry David Thoreau in Context will help readers of Thoreau better understand and appreciate his life, works, and legacy.

This informative Companion offers a combination of original readings and factual background information.

Religion is not merely a different way of thinking but is rather an alternative manner of being-it is both a way of attending to the world and a form of embodiment.

'Poetry,' wrote Tennyson 'is like shot-silk with many glancing colours.

The essays in this volume have all been carefully chosen by Cynthia Chase to exemplify the most important strands in contemporary critical thought on Romantic literature, in particular the best of recent feminist, deconstructive, and new historicist writing.

This is the first truly representative collection of texts by Helene Cixous.

This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.

A “well-written, superbly researched” biography of the man who answered the call of his mentor, Abraham Lincoln, and became the first Union officer to die (Civil War News).

This book, together with A Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H.

This book is about the transformation of England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland.

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

First published in 1969.

In this reflective yet practical book, the author challenges white helping professionals to recognize their own cultural identity and the impact it has when practising in a multicultural environment.

Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies.

With close readings of more than twenty novels by writers including Ernest Gaines, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman, Keith Byerman examines the trend among African American novelists of the late twentieth century to write about black history rather than about their own present.

Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget (1856-1935) - a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction, her support of the Aesthetic Movement and her radical polemics.

Imagined Truths provides a twenty-first-century analysis of stylistic and philosophical manifestations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literary realism.

In 1979, the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement under Maurice Bishop overthrew the government of the Caribbean island country of Grenada, establishing the People's Revolutionary Government.

This study, first published in 1979, explores the idea that all spheres of action - hell, heaven, and earth - of the classical epic is relevant to all parts of Paradise Lost.

The third installment of this award-winning Civil War series offers a vivid and authoritative chronicle of Meade and Lee's conflict after Gettysburg.

What would it mean to reorient the study of Haitian literature toward ethics rather than the themes of politics, engagement, disaster, or catastrophe?

Deviant and Useful Citizens explores the conditions of women and perceptions of the female body in the eighteenth century throughout the Viceroyalty of Peru, which until 1776 comprised modern-day Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

This title, first published in 1961, explores the general background of attitudes, beliefs and ideas from which Eliot's works have originated.

Accessible exploration of Sherlock Holmes and his relationship to late-Victorian culture as well as his ongoing significance and popularity.

Four score and seven years ago .