Literary companions, book reviews and guides

John Van Buren's 'Travel journal for a trip to Europe, 1838-1839' is a record of the a year he spent in England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium and Holland, primarily for his father, Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the United States.

John Van Buren's 'Travel journal for a trip to Europe, 1838-1839' is a record of the a year he spent in England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium and Holland, primarily for his father, Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the United States.

This ground-breaking nineteenth-century volume is of considerable scholarly interest as an example of a femino-centric popular novel.

This ground-breaking nineteenth-century volume is of considerable scholarly interest as an example of a femino-centric popular novel.

First published in 1949, The Progress of a Biographer follows a general principle that there are absolute truths, which an individual can in some degree apprehend and live by, but which churches and institutions can only obscure and pervert.

First published in 1949, The Progress of a Biographer follows a general principle that there are absolute truths, which an individual can in some degree apprehend and live by, but which churches and institutions can only obscure and pervert.

Theodora, A Novel by Dorothea Du Bois, published in 1770, is an entertaining and frequently shocking tale of a young woman's efforts to regain her position in high society after her aristocratic father's abandonment of and denial of marriage to her mother.

Theodora, A Novel by Dorothea Du Bois, published in 1770, is an entertaining and frequently shocking tale of a young woman's efforts to regain her position in high society after her aristocratic father's abandonment of and denial of marriage to her mother.

This book, first published in 1988, is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken.

This book, first published in 1988, is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken.

This book, first published in 1986, explores the allusions in Dickens's work, such as current events and religious and intellectual issues, social customs, topography, costume, furniture and transportation.

This book, first published in 1986, explores the allusions in Dickens's work, such as current events and religious and intellectual issues, social customs, topography, costume, furniture and transportation.

This book, first published in 1988, reveals the great care Dickens took with the planning and preparation of A Tale of Two Cities and its roots.

This book, first published in 1988, reveals the great care Dickens took with the planning and preparation of A Tale of Two Cities and its roots.

First published in 1983, Hugh MacDiarmid: The Terrible Crystal is a detailed introduction to the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid.

First published in 1983, Hugh MacDiarmid: The Terrible Crystal is a detailed introduction to the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid.

Originally published in 1975, E.

Originally published in 1975, E.

Comparative Literature explores an 'area of interest' rather than a special discipline.

Comparative Literature explores an 'area of interest' rather than a special discipline.

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

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

In this study, first published in 1983, Professor Smith makes the argument that although The Waste Land is analogous in form to a musical composition that it is actually made of its literary echoes.

Eliot's Four Quartets is arguably the finest long poem in modern English literature.

In this study, first published in 1983, Professor Smith makes the argument that although The Waste Land is analogous in form to a musical composition that it is actually made of its literary echoes.

Eliot's Four Quartets is arguably the finest long poem in modern English literature.

The American Civil War: A Literary and Historical Anthology brings together a wide variety of important writings from the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, including short fiction, poetry, public addresses, memoirs, and essays, accompanied by detailed annotations and concise introductions.

The American Civil War: A Literary and Historical Anthology brings together a wide variety of important writings from the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, including short fiction, poetry, public addresses, memoirs, and essays, accompanied by detailed annotations and concise introductions.

Caught between the well-worn grooves the Boom and the Gen-X have left on the Latin American literary canon, the writing intellectuals that comprise what the Generation of '72 have not enjoyed the same editorial acclaim or philological framing as the literary cohorts that bookend them.

Rising up from the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily has a rich and ancient history spanning over 2,000 years.

An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa but just nine miles from Europe, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape.

This literary companion guides the reader into the labyrinth of storytelling within The Arabian Nights.

Andalucia is the quintessence of Spain and yet, historically and culturally, it is surprisingly unlike the rest of the country.

This literary companion guides the reader into the labyrinth of storytelling within The Arabian Nights.

Karl Miller is one of the greatest literary critics of the last fifty years, the founder of the London Review of Books and Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College, London.

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

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

This work provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: Why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue to write conventional fiction while living lives that were far from conventional?

Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Zizek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Zizek to literary criticism and theory.

The Fateful Lightning is the second volume of Kathleen Diffleys trilogy on Civil War magazine fiction.

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.

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

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Two novellas by S.

Why the university should focus on community: "e;An enlightening interpretation of Wendell Berry's philosophy for the pursuit of a holistic higher education.

"e;Demonstrates powerfully the manifold ways in which Roth's writing often helped to shape, and was in turn shaped by, the larger political climate.

Caribbean Philosophical Association Nicols Cristbal GuillnBatista Outstanding Book AwardCaribbean Studies Association Barbara T.

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.

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.

In this complete, unabridged edition of H.