Literary companions, book reviews and guides

First published in 1909, with a second edition in 1923, this concise and easily accessible overview of Shelley's life and work presents the poet not as popular legend would have it, but in a more objective light.

The site of a thriving literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been the home to many of our nation's most acclaimed writers.

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

First published in 1980.

Finalist, 2021 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards As historian David W.

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

Explores 1930s authors, genres, and contexts, giving fresh attention to well-known authors and bringing new writers and approaches to the fore.

Every bookshop has a storyWe're not talking about rooms that are just full of books.

The first volume of Lewis' masterful biography of David Glasgow Farragut's long career in the U.

First published in 1972, this is the first detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan literature.

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This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.

An ebook compilation of inspirational writings, featuring seven classic works in one high quality, fully searchable edition:The compilation includes:'Mere Christianity'The Screwtape Letters'Surprised by Joy'The Four Loves'The Problem of Pain'The Great Divorce'Miracles'C.

This collection historicises the life and works of George Bernard Shaw through the lens of forty-two popular subjects of study.

This book, first published in 1991, supplies a neglected cultural context for T.

First published in 1987.

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

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.

Civil War buffs, be warned: Webb Garrison's Curiosities of the Civil War may catch you off guard.

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

George S.

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

Saul Steinberg's inimitable drawings, paintings, and assemblages enriched the New Yorker, gallery and museum shows, and his own books for more than half a century.

Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library.

This set reissues two volumes entitled A Book of Broadsheets and A Second Book of Broadsheets, both with introductions by Geoffrey Dawson, a former editor of The Times.

In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Linda Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history.

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

This book sheds light on how the text and physical design of James Joyce's two most challenging works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, reflect changes that transformed Europe between World War I and II.

Scott L.

Offers accessible and informative essays about the social impact and historical importance of boxing around the globe.

Originally published in 1975, E.

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.

Herman Melville in Context will help readers of Melville better understand and appreciate his life, works, and legacy.

This book provides readers with an overview of how Americans have commemorated and remembered the Civil War.

India and the Traveller: Aspects of Travelling Identity, a collection of essays on travel writings related to India, focuses on the evolving persona of travelers to India as well as Indians journeying to other lands or within India.

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

The tragedy that devastated Spain for 33 months from July 1936 to April 1939, was, first and foremost, a brutal fratricidal conflict, the product of the fatal clash between diametrically opposed views of Spain and an attempt to settle crucial issues which had divided Spaniards for generations: agrarian reform, recognition of the identity of the historical regions (Catalonia, the Basque Country), and the roles of the Catholic Church and the armed forces in a modern state.

First published in 1916, The Textual Tradition of Chaucer's Troilus compares the best unprinted manuscripts of Chaucer's Troilus with the printed texts.

First published in 2001.

The Union Navy played a vital role in winning the Civil War by blockading Confederate ports, cooperating with the Union Army in amphibious assaults, and operating on the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

Play Up and Play the Game (1973) examines the type of fictional hero most embodied in the work and character, poetry and philosophy of Sir Henry Newbolt.

One method of American territory expansion in the U.

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

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

Considering Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector's literature as a case study and a source of theory, Writing by Ear presents an aural theory of the novel based on readings of Near to the Wild Heart (1943), The Besieged City (1949), The Passion According to G.

"e;This remarkable publication provides a captivating and brilliantly executed series of conversations among seventeen most impressive historians.

»Erlebte Literatur« ist das Ergebnis von mehr als 40 Jahren engagierter Beobachtung und kritischer Begleitung deutscher Nachkriegskriegsliteratur.

Would it surprise you to learn that there was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway's who, in his romantic questing and hell-or-high-water pursuit of life and his art, was closer to the Hemingwayesque ideal than Hemingway himself?

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

Latin America's Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they have constructed a literary corpus that moves them beyond those parameters.