Literary companions, book reviews and guides

Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause revisionism.

This is the second volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period January 1838-November 1857.

Thomas Pynchon's fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem.

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

In late 1872, the New York Herald named James J.

First published in 1967.

This Companion focuses on the novel as a global genre and examines its role, impact and development.

It is impossible to appreciate poetry fully without some knowledge of the various aspects of poetic technique.

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

This Companion addresses an exciting emerging field of literary scholarship that charts the intersections of postcolonial studies and travel writing.

This volume offers a new introduction to the American Renaissance, exploring many of the key themes, genres, and social and cultural contexts that inform the best new scholarship in the field.

Broadway productions of musicals such as The King and I, Oliver!

A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the na,ve reader takes as a representation.

Across the eighteenth century in Britain, readers, writers, and theater-goers were fascinated by women who dressed in men's clothing-from actresses on stage who showed their shapely legs to advantage in men's breeches to stories of valiant female soldiers and ruthless female pirates.

First published in 1983, this book focuses on the twentieth-century writer as both a product, and an interpreter, of his or her society.

A combustible mix of fury and radicalism, pathos and pain, wit and love—Terrence Tucker calls it "comic rage," and he shows how it has been used by African American artists to aggressively critique America''s racial divide.

A collection of enlightening quotes, delivering some of the most important lessons The School of Life has to offer.

Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and his knights is covered in this fascinating volume: the origins of the Grail legend, the Tristan and Isolde love story in opera and literature, Spielberg's use of Arthurian motifs in Star Wars , the depiction of Arthur in paintings, the presentation of Camelot on the Broadway stage, the twitting of the legend in Monty Python and theHoly Grail and much more.

Drawing on the latest scholarship and criticism, this new Companion provides an authoritative, accessible introduction to Eliot''s complete oeuvre.

The Tempest: Critical Essays traces the history of Shakespeare's controversial late romance from its early reception (and adaptation) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the present.

Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the most complete sourcebook for the study of this growing area of inquiry.

First published in 1951, this book is based on a course of lectures on poetry and prose given at Cambridge University during the long vacations of 1946-1950.

Robert Browning, the great Victorian poet, is often claimed to be hard to understand, largely on account of the obscurity of his language, the complexity of his thought, and his poetic style.

A new collection of essays that offers exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.

Understanding an epic story's key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence.

Go behind the scenes of the iconic Discworld series with this beautiful, illustrated hardback, the perfect gift book for any fantasy fan this holiday season.

First published in 1902, this volume was edited from the unique manuscript, Laud Misc.

Since the beginnings of white settlement in Newfoundland, writers have set down greatly varying impressions of its landscape and distinctive culture.

First published in 1900, this volume was edited from a unique 1440 A.

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

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.

First published in 1996.

Edward Lobb's study, first published in 1981, is a thorough examination of Eliot's relation to Romantic criticism.

This title, first published in 1960, is intended primarily to increase the understanding of drama among those who do not have easy access to the live theatre and who, therefore, study plays mainly in print.

Translated into English for the first time, Andres Avelino de Orihuela's El Sol de Jesus del Monte is a landmark Cuban antislavery novel.

First published in 1952.

Offering guidance and inspiration to English literature instructors, this book faces the challenges of real-life teaching and the contemporary higher education classroom head on.

What does it mean to be Ukrainian in contemporary Canada?

First published in 1980.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to English poetry, tracing its evolution from the Age of Chaucer to the Romantic Period.

An authoritative and lively account of the development of the genre, by leading experts in the field.

"e;A reliable guide to what science fiction is"e; Christopher Priest, award-winning science fiction author"e;A really good introduction to the genre"e; SFX Magazine"e;Perceptive and glorious"e; Ian Watson, author of the screenplay for Steve Spielberg's A.

First published in 1975.

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