Literary companions, book reviews and guides

The Battle of New Market in the Shenandoah Valley suffers from no lack of drama, interest, or importance.

This is a collection of selected and translated Chinese legends and tales arranged under specific topics important to Chinese culture, with an introduction and reading guide for each piece.

First published in 1971.

This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction.

“This study goes beyond the military aspects to examine the psychological and emotional impacts on the participants, both military and civilian.

A rich examination of the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James JoyceIn this book, Fran ORourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the authors oeuvre.

Valedictory addresses offer a way to conceptualize the relation of self to others, private to public, ephemeral to eternal.

During his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln expressed hope that the "e;better angels of our nature"e; would prevail as war loomed.

Two original essays and 16 published since 1950 offer a comprehensive view of Cynewulf, his language, and his poetry.

This book, first published in 1962, is a collection of twenty-four essays written by Frank Kermode between 1958 and early 1961, and are all concerned with criticism and fiction.

A fresh and comprehensive account of the literature of France, from medieval romances to twenty-first-century experimental poetry and novels.

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.

Eighteenth-century British culture was transfixed by the threat of contagion, believing that everyday elements of the surrounding world could transmit deadly maladies from one body to the next.

Shows Wright''s art was intrinsic to his politics, grounding his exploration of the intersections between race, gender, and class.

First published in 1998.

In Beyond 1776, ten humanities scholars consider the American Revolution within a global framework.

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

A fully revised critical overview of Atwood''s career, emphasising her recent dystopias and the televised adaptation of The Handmaid''s Tale.

First published in 1993.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

From 1923, when he emigrated from Bucharest, to his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, Benjamin Fondane made a unique and independent-minded contribution to the literary and intellectual life of Paris.

Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the history of the politics surrounding U.

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

The first full biography of James Montgomery, who through his actions before and during the Civil War, contributed towards the abolition of slavery.

This detailed military history of the Spanish Civil War dispels long-held misconceptions and sheds significant new light on the conflict.

While fighting on land continues to hold center stage, recently much more attention has been focused on the Civil War at sea.

All autobiographers are unreliable narrators.

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

"e;Lucid analysis of Union and Confederate intelligence gathering functions and services .

This set reissues 7 books on the Romantic poet Lord Byron originally published between 1957 and 2005.

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.

Jane Tompkins, a renowned literature professor and award-winning author, thought she knew what reading was until, struck by a debilitating illness, she finds herself reading day and night because it is all she can do.

This essay collection offers a lengthy introduction describing trends in criticism and theatrical interpretation of As You Like It.

Amihay offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors.

The second volume of this authoritative biography of Americas first admiral examines the last ten years of David Glasgow Farraguts life, which included the ever-fascinating period of the Civil War.

The "e;Young American"e; critics - Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford - are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village "e;Little Renaissance"e; of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and politics.

A rich examination of the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James JoyceIn this book, Fran ORourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the authors oeuvre.

Winner of the 2013 Eudora Welty PrizeEudora Welty and Surrealism surveys Welty's fiction during the most productive period of her long writing life.

Zusammen liest man weniger allein.

Challenging the assumption that modernist writer Gertrude Stein seldom integrated her Jewish identity and heritage into her work, this book uncovers Steins constant and varied writing about Jewish topics throughout her career.

In this intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the nineteenth century, Leslie Butler examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive and cosmopolitan reform.

During histhirty-eight-year career as a military officer, Henry Clay Merriam received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Civil War, rose to prominence in the Western army, and exerted significant influence on the American West by establishing military posts, protecting rail lines, and maintaining an uneasy peace between settlers and Indians.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, the idea of independence inspired radical changes across the French-speaking world.

Zola has begun to receive the serious critical study he deserves, but which, chiefly for religious and political resons, has until recent years been denied.

Presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to J.

In these changing times of global flows of media and technologies and reports of declining reading enjoyment, researchers, policymakers and educators need to engage anew with essential issues of what counts as reading, what kinds of reading matter and how to support teen reading engagement in school and out-of-school settings.