Literary reference works

This provocative and unique work reveals the remarkably influential role of futuristic literature on contemporary political power in America.

Shakespeare | Sense explores the intersection of Shakespeare and sensory studies, asking what sensation can tell us about early modern drama and poetry, and, conversely, how Shakespeare explores the senses in his literary craft, his fictional worlds, and his stagecraft.

This Element argues that editing is computational, and that such ''computations'' enable new methods of publishing, reading, and experiences.

Panepiphanal World is the first in-depth study of the forty short texts James Joyce called "e;epiphanies.

Historians have long understood that books were important to the British army in defining the duties of its officers, regulating tactics, developing the art of war, and recording the history of campaigns and commanders.

Discover a forgotten chapter of American history with Steven Cowie's riveting account of the Battle of Antietam.

Throughout this book, Kevin Meehan offers historical and theoretical readings of Caribbean and African American interaction from the 1700s to the present.

Publishing to coincide with St Patrick's Day, we arrive in Dublin with the next installment in the Literary Landscapes series.

The first major collection of essays to provide a comprehensive examination of the British literature of the French Revolution.

There they sit, the great tomes of classical literature, taunting you with their length and difficulty, as you ask: which books are the most important and why - and what's actually any good?

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

The 1976 Television play Ghost Trio demonstrates Beckett''s exploration of the relationship between theatricality, absorption and objecthood.

One method of American territory expansion in the U.

First published in 1954, A Handbook of Latin Literature is an attempt to put together a cohesive account of classical and early post-classical writings in the Latin tongue, and is a companion to the Handbook of Greek Literature.

George Sand's The Seven Strings of the Lyre is a philosophical play written in poetic prose and never intended for perfomance on stage.

This Companion considers what theoretical and practical possibilities emerge at the crossroads of human rights and literature.

In the spring of 1861, Virginians confronted destiny-their own and their nation's.

The God Who Comforts is a spiritual reading of Jesus' upper room discipleship sermon.

"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.

First published in 1986.

Winner2022 College Language Association Book Prize Finalist2024 African Literature Associations Best Scholarly Book Award Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebeauthor of Things Fall Apart, one of the towering works of twentieth-century fictionis considered the father of modern African literature.

By providing detailed analyses of Civil War primary sources, this book will help readers to understand the history of the bloodiest of all American conflicts.

This volume offers a comprehensive array of readings of 'skin' in Shakespeare's works, a term that embraces the human and animal, noun and verb.

The importance of Robert E.

Nathan Bedford Forrest.

In dieser Dissertationsschrift wird das Textproblem des deuterokanonischen Buches Tobit neu aufgerollt.

Saul Bellow is one of the twentieth century's most influential, respected, and honored writers.

Der spanische Bürgerkrieg spaltet auch heute noch nach über siebzig Jahren die spanische Gesellschaft in zwei Lager, die jeweils die Deutungshoheit über das Ereignis für sich beanspruchen.

Enrich each day with wisdom from our greatest spiritual thinkers.

Trotz der umfänglichen Diskussionen auf theoretischer und bildungspolitischer Ebene über Veränderungen in der Lehrerausbildung, ist dieser Bereich empirisch bislang erst wenig erforscht worden.

In 2001, while vacationing on Panama's Pacific coast, maritime archaeologist James P.

Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "e;great American novels"e;-Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Melville's Moby-Dick and Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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

This Companion features thirteen essays from leading international experts on William Carlos Williams, covering his major poetry and prose works.

The hundreds of biblical references in Shakespeares plays give ample evidence that he was well acquainted with Scripture.

Du 10 mai au 7 juin 1687, Louis XIV entreprend ce long voyage qui le conduit de Versailles à Luxembourg et vice-versa pour inspecter la ville conquise en 1684 par le maréchal de Créquy.

Reading James Joyce is a ready-at-hand compendium and all-encompassing interpretive guide designed for teachers and students approaching Joyce's writings for the first time, guiding readers to better understand Joyce's works and the background from which they emerged.

James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking tales, published between 1823 and 1841, are generally regarded as America's first major works of fiction.

This book covers the heterogeneity of Chilean literary production from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present.

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.

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.

A “fascinating and informative” reassessment of the underappreciated Confederate general’s achievements and ahead-of-his-time military strategy (Midwest Book Review).

An authoritative and comprehensive guide to poetry throughout the worldThe Princeton Handbook of World Poetries-drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics-provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the history and practice of poetry in more than 100 major regional, national, and diasporic literatures and language traditions around the globe.

Louis Trezevant Wigfall was a violent, mercurial man.

This volume offers new insight into the contextual background and literary-historical impact of Norman Mailer''s body of work.