Literary companions, book reviews and guides

For more than eighty years, Faulkner criticism has attempted to "e;see all Yoknapatawpha,"e; the fictional Mississippi county in which the author set all but four of his novels as well as more than fifty short stories.

This book examines newspapers, magazines, photographs, illustrations, and editorial cartoons to tell the important story of journalism, documenting its role during the Civil War as well as the impact of the war on the press.

In this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters.

Mallory Book 12: Blind Sight is the twelfth NYPD detective Kathy Mallory novel from New York Times bestseller Carol O'Connell, master of knife-edge suspense and intricate plotting.

First published in 1998, this title provides for the reader of the renowned metaphysical poet and politician a valuable reference and resource volume.

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

Panepiphanal World is the first in-depth study of the forty short texts James Joyce called "e;epiphanies.

During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature.

Occupy Pynchon examines power and resistance in the writer's post-Gravity's Rainbow novels.

The Beat Generation was a group of writers who rejected cultural standards, experimented with drugs, and celebrated sexual liberation.

First published in 1991, Romantic Ecology reassesses the poetry of William Wordsworth in the context of the abiding pastoral tradition in English Literature.

Emphasizing the significance of his political and historical engagement, this work casts Abraham Lincoln as a cultural figure.

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In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S.

This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.

The setting of a novel is more than just an anonymous, interchangeable backdrop.

A narrative history of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference, the bipartisan, last-ditch effort to prevent the Civil War, an effort that nearly averted the carnage that followed.

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.

Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "e;great American novels"e;-Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Melville's Moby-Dick and Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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.

The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers.

First published in 1968.

A modern and current examination of Reconstruction that explains how the South in the aftermath of defeat in a total war, was still able to exhaust the will of the powerful North using asymmetric warfare.

In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, captivity emerged as a persistent metaphor as well as a material reality.

This volume comprises of a substantial selection of E.

First published in 1984.

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

The American idea,"e; a blend of the Idea of Progress and a belief in the essential goodness of man, has determined the form of much of our significant literature.

"e;This epic account is as thrilling and fast-paced as the raid itself and will quickly rival, if not surpass, Dee Brown's Grierson's Raid as the standard.

This revised edition provides a way of understanding the vast universe of genre fiction in an easy-to-use format.

The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance--Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc--spread fear across the frontiers of North America.

An intimate account of an ancient shamanic ritual of Siberia *; Illustrated with vivid, full-color photographs throughout *; Details the many preparations and ritual objects as well as the struggles of the shamans to complete the ceremony successfully Near the radiant blue waters of Lake Baikal, in the lands where Mongolia, Siberia, and China meet, live the Buryats, an indigenous people little known to the Western world.

This monumental book offers a comprehensive history and analysis of Republican political life during the Spanish Civil War.

First published in 1971.

Mosaic Fictions is the first book-length critical analysis of Canadian Spanish Civil War literature.

This historical biography provides a scholarly analysis of the personal diaries of a young, freeborn mulatto woman during the Civil War years.

A Companion to the Bront s brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Bront family.

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

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.

The first major work in Sino-Western comparative semiotics, Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations is a trans-disciplinary and intercultural effort that makes intellectual connections not only across such diverse academic fields as epistemology, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, and cultural studies but also between Chinese and Western theories of the sign in the conviction that they can shed light on one another.

"e;Presents Custer's Civil War accomplishments in clear and engaging prose, while its ample images and battle maps place unfamiliar readers in the action.

George Washington Gayle is not a name known to history.

Walt Whitman "e;is America,"e; according to Ezra Pound.

“Brings literature lovers on a journey through London, from Chaucer in the fourteenth century to present day .

A fully illustrated account of the Vicksburg Campaign, including modern color photography and covering the river war, inland battles, seige operations, and more.

In this book, the first to explore the role of disability in the writings of James Joyce, contributors approach the subject both on a figurative level, as a symbol or metaphor in Joyces work, and also as a physical reality for many of Joyces characters.

William Shakespeare's Hamlet (c.

Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories, various essays, and numerous book reviews over the course of her life.