Literary reference works

Various aspects of Milton are explored in this collection of essays by scholars whose reputations were, at the time of publication in 1960, perhaps largely based on their writings on more modern subjects.

Surveying the development of medieval scholarship through biography, this volume contains 23 original essays on scholars whose work shaped medieval historiography for the past 300 years.

Driven to the Field traces the culture of sharecropping-crucial to understanding life in the southern United States-from Emancipation to the twenty-first century.

This second edition, including some new chapters, provides a revised introduction to all aspects of George Eliot''s writing.

Shakespeare''s first critic: a newly discovered work of literary criticism from the 1590s, the most revolutionary decade in English literary history.

The poems in Things Not Seen are by turns playful, witty, and serious.

A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period.

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The importance of Robert E.

In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America's Gilded Age who lost--and found--themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them.

This book places Frederick Douglass in a variety of geographical, political, social, cultural, and literary contexts of his time.

Postmodernist literature embraces a wide range of forms and perspectives, including texts that are primarily self-reflexive; texts that use pastiche, burlesque, parody, intertextuality and hybrid forms to create textual realities that either run in opposition to or in parallel with an external reality; fabulations that develop both of these strategies; texts that ironize their relationship to reality; works that use the aspects already noted to more fully engage with political or cultural realities; texts that deal with history as a fiction; and texts that elude categorization even within the variety already explored.

Leading international experts provide an essential framework for the interdisciplinary study of Dante and the late Middle Ages.

The Civil War in the Eastern Theater during the late summer and fall of 1863 was anything but inconsequential.

The Word in the World is a collection of essays and lectures by H S Shivaprakash, a well-known poet, playwright, and translator.

Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat is one of the most recognized writers today.

A History of Colombian Literature explores the genealogy of Colombian literature from the colonial period to the present day.

A comprehensive and fully illustrated account of the Shiloh Campaign, with over a hundred photographs and detailed maps.

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On September 7, 1864, William Whitlock, aged thirty-five, left his wife and four children in Allegany, New York, to join the Union army in battle.

Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine didaktisch aufbereitete Überblicksdarstellung zur italienischen Sprachgeschichte, die sich den Bedürfnissen der akademischen Lehre in den aktuellen Studiengängen mit italianistischem Profil anpasst.

The 71st in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

This book gathers diverse critical treatments from fifteen scholars of the posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume.

First published in 1988, this reissue is an important work in the field of national literary exchange.

Revised and updated through "e;O"e; Is for Outlaw, the Edgar Award-winning guide to the world of Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone.

Seventh-century Ireland is becoming a land of saints, scholars, and spiritual foster mothers as well as warriors.

Delve into Middle-earth, decipher the Dwarves' alphabet and more, with this indispensable and comprehensive guide to J.

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

This is the third volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period February 1858-June 1877.

Since the publication and cinematic success of 1992's Along Came a Spider, James Patterson seems to have taken up permanent residence on the bestseller lists.

Hedrick examines London's inner life, primarily as it is revealed in his art, to discover the man concealed beneath the public persona.

In this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race and slavery, and piracy as seen through the lens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature.

Science Fiction und wie sie die Welten verändertWelches literarische Genre lädt Schreibende wie die Science Fiction dazu ein, sich eine andere als unsere Realität auszumalen, Was-wäre-wenn-Fragen zu stellen, neue Gesellschaftsformen zu denken und Konflikte ohne Gewalt zu lösen?

The most important surviving encyclopedia from the ancient world, Pliny the Elder's Natural History is unparalleled as a guide to the cultural meanings of everyday things in first-century Rome.

This book presents a detailed textual analysis of Calvin's Interpretation of the Lord's Prayer, from the last version of the Institution de la religion chretienne (1560), Chapter XX.

This two-volume encyclopedia offers a unique insight into the Civil War from a state and local perspective, showing how the American experience of the conflict varied significantly based on location.

This is a collection of selected and translated Chinese legends and tales arranged under specific topics important to Chinese culture, with an introduction and reading guide for each piece.

This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition series increases our knowledge of how Antony and Cleopatra has been received and understood by critics, editors and general readers.

Winner, 2024 RUSA Outstanding Reference AwardOffers a comprehensive overview of the most important authors, movements, genres, and historical turning points in Latino literature.

An indispensable reference tool for Shakespeare students and enthusiasts, this compact guide provides authoritative summaries of each of Shakespeare''s works.

First published in 1975, this book places Elizabeth Gaskell amongst the major novelists of the nineteenth-century.

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Two distinctly different meanings of piracy are ingeniously intertwined in Monica Cohen's lively new book, which shows how popular depictions of the pirate held sway on the page and the stage even as their creators were preoccupied with the ravages of literary appropriation.

First published in 1988, this annotated selection of Wilfred Owen's poetry and prose provides a comprehensive one-volume text of his best work.