Literary reference works

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North and South, black and white - the story of the War Between the States is embedded in the soul of every American.

A volume of early critical intervention into the features of contemporary Irish and Northern Irish authors, writing, and cultural practice.

Plots, Designs, and Schemes is the first study that investigates the long history of American conspiracy theories from the perspective of literary and cultural studies.

Die 17 Beiträge dieses Bandes umkreisen die zentralen Begriffe des IV.

The public is familiar with the Emily Dickinson stereotype--an eccentric spinster in a white dress flitting about her father's house, hiding from visitors.

With new entries and sensitive edits, this fifth edition places J.

Ancient declamation-the practice of delivering speeches on the basis of fictitious scenarios-defies easy categorization.

The Young Americans were a nationalist movement within the Democratic Party made up of writers and politicians associated with the New York periodical, the Democratic Review.

The Exeter Book, a late tenth-century manuscript of early Old English poetry, is an anthology of religious homiletic verse, elegiac poetry, and ninety-one lyric riddles.

In the aftermath of America's centennial celebrations of 1876, readers developed an appetite for chronicles of the nation's past.

Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter's 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, the renowned historian Paul Escott has composed ten concise but deeply learned and incisive biographies of key Americans in the years leading up to the Civil War.

A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.

Papers collected in this volume try to illuminate various aspects of philosophical theology dealt with by different Jewish and early Christian authors and texts (e.

"Skandinavische Schriftlandschaften" ist eine Festschrift für Jürg Glauser, von 1994 bis 2017 Professor für Nordische Philologie an den Universitäten Basel und Zürich.

The untold story of South America's most interesting beverageBrewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South America, yerba mate gives its drinkers the jolt of liquid effervescence many of us get from coffee or tea.

Presents a comprehensive account of the late Byzantine romances, offering comparative East/West perspectives in light of new theoretical developments.

A collection of scholarly essays exploring the American Civil War from international perspectives.

Americans in the World War II era bought the novels of African American writers in unprecedented numbers.

This book, first published in 1985, explores the consciousness and the experience of Shakespeare's audience.

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

History of how, over many centuries, French thinkers have revolutionized European thought about knowledge, religion, politics, and society.

A nineteen-year-old chemistry major at Rhodes College is selected to spend the summer after her freshman year doing research at St.

This biography of the Civil War officer who established the Union’s intelligence network “is an absolute treasure trove of .

First in a trilogy—a study of the strategy, tactics, and rivalry between two leaders of the Army of the Potomac’s cavalry during the American Civil War.

Travel the myriad worlds of the DC Multiverse.

Modern Irish Drama: W.

The book provides new scholarship on Asian North American literature and culture from an often-neglected historical period.

The Global South and Literature explores the history, meanings, cultural and literary applications of the notion of the ''Global South.

Some of the most iconic, hard-boiled Irish detectives in fiction insist that they are not detectives at all.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain earned the sobriquet “Lion of the Round Top” for his tactical brilliance leading his 20th Maine Infantry on the rocky wooded slopes of Little Round Top at on the evening of July 2, 1863.

In this book, Stephanie J.

This book offers a unique firsthand account of the experiences of a teenage officer in America's Civil War.

The first collection of essays charting the origins, developments, and applications of literary food studies, by leading scholars who have shaped the field.

One of the enduring traditions of Western literary history, pastoral is often mischaracterized as a catchall for literature about rural themes and nature in general.

In diesem Band wird das kulturgeschichtliche Phänomen des Humanismus an dem geographisch definierten Paradigma Würzburgs und seines Umlands untersucht.

In diesem Essay erweitert Alfred Rohloff seinen dialektisch-ökologischen Ansatz zur Naturphilosophie.

First published in 1894.

Between the Civil War and World War I the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history.

Challenges the widespread misconception that the American 1950s was a placid decade with a literature to match.

The 18th century in Britain was a transition period for literature.

In January of 1861, on the eve of both the Civil War and the rebirth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's Christian Recorder, John Mifflin Brown wrote to the paper praising its editor Elisha Weaver: "e;It takes our Western boys to lead off.

Mosaic Fictions is the first book-length critical analysis of Canadian Spanish Civil War literature.

Inclusive, cutting-edge essay collection by leading scholars on Victorian women poets and their diverse poetic forms and identities.

Here is an amusing collection of ingenious mnemonics devised to help us learn and understand hundreds of important fact as children and can continue to resonate with us as adults.

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

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 65 is ''A Midsummer Night''s Dream''.