Literary reference works

Featuring 37 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the development of the novel in the United States from the late 18th century to the present day.

Lively and accessibly written, this Introduction offers readers a guide to the complex and rewarding literature of Toni Morrison.

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.

The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland's literature, covering a period from the earliest times to the early 1990s.

This study introduces a new perspective on Lincoln and the Civil War through an examination of his declaration of our national values and the subsequent interpretation of those values by families during the war.

From the critically acclaimed author Sally Bayley, The Green Lady is a poignant, brilliant exploration of the relationships between children and their teachers.

Charts the transitions in African American literature and culture that took shape after Reconstruction, but before the Harlem Renaissance.

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

Presents the final volume of the seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series, focusing on the twentieth century and beyond.

With close readings of more than twenty novels by writers including Ernest Gaines, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman, Keith Byerman examines the trend among African American novelists of the late twentieth century to write about black history rather than about their own present.

This collection of essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive overview of contexts important for the study of Emily Dickinson''s writings.

First published in 1963.

The purpose of this collection, which was first published in 1996, is to provide both an overview of the major critical approaches to the Four Branches of the Mabinogi and a selection of the best essays dealing with them.

In this book, which was first published in 1983, Frank Kermode looks in particular at the revived Russian Formalism, a highly original body of literary theory that flourished in the years immediately following the Revolution, and at the work of Roman Jakobson, one of its most distinguished exponents.

First published in 1940.

The Art of John Webster, first published in 1972, is a study of the three extant plays of Webster known to be solely his work.

"e;A comprehensive, eminently readable, lavishly illustrated, and historically accurate account"e; of this important yet overlooked Civil War battle (Civil War News).

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

Im Zentrum der rezeptionsästhetischen Untersuchung steht die Neugier von Leserinnen und Lesern des dritten Lebensalters.

This scholarly edition includes the final ten stories Henry James wrote, and provides extensive textual history and wide-ranging notes.

American Literature in Transition, 1970–1980 explores how American literary culture responded to the gaudiest, most gauche of 20th-century decades.

Across time and cultures, poets and astronomers have often asked the same questions about outer space, and about ourselves.

This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction.

À travers l’analyse de près de 500 procédures d’interdiction engagées entre 1820 et 1895, Fous, prodigues et ivrognes examine les interactions entre les acteurs impliqués dans la régulation de la déviance : familles, système judiciaire, institutions asilaires et médecins.

Offers a radically new picture of the ''long 1930s'', describing it as a pivot of twentieth-century literary and cultural production.

Dieser Band wurde speziell für die Erfordernisse der frankoromanistischen Bachelor-Studiengänge entworfen.

This book combines a sweeping narrative of the Civil War with a bold new look at the wars significance for American society.

Imagined Truths provides a twenty-first-century analysis of stylistic and philosophical manifestations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literary realism.

Examines debates central to postwar British culture, showing the pressures of reconstruction and the mutual implication of war and peace.

Collecting in full for the first time the correspondence between Ezra Pound and members of Leo Frobenius' Forschungsinstitut f r Kulturmorphologie in Frankfurt across a 30 year period, this book sheds new light on an important but previously unexplored influence on Pound's controversial intellectual development in the Fascist era.

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

De la simple maladresse au discours vicié, du propos délivré à contrecœur jusqu'au secret, la parole empêchée est une parole qui n'advient pas comme elle le devrait.

The Collins Nature Library is a new series of classic British nature writing - reissues of long-lost seminal works.

Featuring 37 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the development of the novel in the United States from the late 18th century to the present day.

Provides accessible essays by leading international scholars, offering up-to-date insights into the key contexts to Lawrence''s life, career and legacy.

Charles Dew's Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states' secession from the Union.

Eighteenth-century British culture was transfixed by the threat of contagion, believing that everyday elements of the surrounding world could transmit deadly maladies from one body to the next.

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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.

An authoritative new history of Native American literature that places it within (rather than apart from) US settler space.

A collection of enlightening quotes, delivering some of the most important lessons The School of Life has to offer.

Dublin: A Writer''s City takes the reader, area by area, through one of the world''s great literary cities.

Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions.

The only book that shows readers how to ask the questions which will make poems to speak to them.

This is the first collection of critical essays devoted exclusively to Shakespeare's first published work, his long narrative poem Venus and Adonis which established his reputation as the literary darling of London and the heir of Ovid.

Within the English-speaking world, no work of the German High Middle Ages is better known than the Nibelungenlied, which has stirred the imagination of artists and readers far beyond its land of origin.