Literary reference works

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'To say this series is "e;empowering"e; doesn't do it justice.

Nationalism in nineteenth-century America operated through a collection of symbols, signifiers citizens could invest with meaning and understanding.

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Through classical, Scriptural, and global notions of virtue, this handbook illuminates the shared worlds of Shakespeare''s plays.

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American executive of the NAACP.

The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals.

Leading specialists shed new light on key narrative and thematic features of the writings of Honoré de Balzac.

This study explores Hemingway's newspaper and magazine journalism, his introductions and prefaces to books by others, his program notes on painting and sculpture exhibitions, and his statements in self-edited interviews.

This book surveys the stellar writing by the Welsh master Ken Follett.

Immigrant communities evince particular and deep relationship to place.

In 1860, Ohio was among the most influential states in the nation.

This volume is a comprehensive overview of scholarship on this play.

The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela).

The city''s literature is explored in this volume, which reveals a metropolis in a constant state of movement.

This collection of essays offers a dynamic reconsideration of the places, times, and influences that made Seamus Heaney a poet.

With the decline of formalism and its predilection for Old English poetry, Old English prose is leaving the periphery and moving into the center of literary and cultural discussion.

It showcases how posthumanism has transformed the humanities and what new work is now possible in light of this unsettling.

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

Die mythische Figur Athamas ist in die Literaturgeschichte als Prototyp des durch die Götter mit Wahnsinn gestraen Menschen eingegangen: Er tötet seinen Sohn Learchos, verfolgt seine Frau Ino und seinen anderen Sohn Melikertes und zwingt sie dazu, sich ins Meer zu stürzen.

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.

History isnt always written by the winners.

This History explores the genealogy of modern American verse by women from the early twentieth century to the millennium.

Study of the sea--both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation--has been largely ignored by ecocritics.

Rachel Bowlby's anthology of articles conjures up the enormous richness and variety of recent work that returns to Woolf not so much for final answers as for insights into questions about writing, literary traditions and the differences of the sexes.

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.

This companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market.

Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly asked some variation of the question posed by the New York Times in 1862, "e;What shall we do with the negro?

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Shakespeare's Books contains nearly 200 entries covering the full range of literature Shakespeare was acquainted with, including classical, historical, religious and contemporary works.

The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology.

In the steamy summer of 1787, as America's founding fathers fashioned their Constitution, they told the most powerful institution in their new nation what it must not do: "e;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.

This volume in the Arthurian Characters and Themes series treats the fascinating character of Perceval, the naive and flawed but gifted youth who becomes the Grail hero in some texts and yet is eclipsed in others by Galahad.

In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaign in South America--the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70, which galvanized four countries and became the longest large-scale international conflict in the history of the Americas.

The detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary on "e;Piers Plowman"e; places the allegorical dream-vision of the poem within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the work, assessing past scholarship while offering original materials and insights throughout.

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Examining the novels of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and other writers, June Howard presents a study of American literary naturalism as a genre.

First published in 1995, this title provides the reader with a compendium of useful information for any reader of George Herbert to have at hand.

Writers in Brazil and Mexico discovered early on that speculative fiction provides an ideal platform for addressing the complex issues of modernity, yet the study of speculative fictions rarely strays from the United States and England.

Explores a major eighteenth-century narrative and the power of the Crusoe figure beyond the pages of the original book.

Twelve novels and nine short stories define one of the most extraordinary fictional characters of all time, creating the basis for the most successful movie series in cinematographic history, watched by more than half the world's population.

For nearly half a century, James D.

The Wars of the Roses (c.

This History presents a comprehensive history of Jewish American literature from its origins to the present day.

This book provides a fresh, revisionary account of American literature before, during, and after the Civil War.

Cormac McCarthy in Context places the author''s work within a host of influences that serve to illuminate his dense work.

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.