Literary reference works

Der Band versammelt empirische Arbeiten aus der fremdsprachlichen Professions-, Ausbildungs- und Fortbildungsforschung und zeigt die derzeitigen Forschungsschwerpunkte in diesem Bereich auf.

The importance of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the history of the United States cannot be overstated.

An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.

Presents the first fully annotated scholarly edition of The Bostonians, one of Henry James''s most distinctive and important tragicomedies.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to studying the diversity of American poetry in the twenty-first century.

Gegenstand der Studie sind hebräische und jiddische Erzählungen des 13.

Wie international, interdisziplinär und interkulturell istDeutsch als Wissenschaftssprache?

Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.

For as long as the United States owed its prosperity to a New World plantation complex, from colonial settlement until well into the twentieth century, the toxic practices associated with its permutations stimulated imaginary solutions to the contradiction with the nation's enlightenment ideals and republican ideology.

The first extensively annotated edition of Joseph Conrad''s powerful and unsettling novel Under Western Eyes.

Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland is a richly detailed exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been shaped by, and responded to, the laws, judgments, and constitutions of both of the island's jurisdictions.

First published in English in 1926, this work by Nikolai Bukharin, a highly influential Marxist and Soviet Politician who would later become one of the most famous victims of Stalin's show trials, expands upon Karl Marx's theory of historical materialism.

America, how well do you know your history?

If we are being honest, many of us would admit that we spend practically no time praising God when we pray.

In addition to being a poet, fiction writer, playwright, and essayist, Langston Hughes was also a globe-trotting cosmopolitan, travel writer, translator, avid international networker, and-perhaps above all-pan-Africanist.

This ground-breaking nineteenth-century volume is of considerable scholarly interest as an example of a femino-centric popular novel.

This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals.

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

Enrich each day with wisdom from our greatest spiritual thinkers.

In Beyond 1776, ten humanities scholars consider the American Revolution within a global framework.

Now Read On brings together literatures in English from around the world, combining an excellent choice of texts with sound methodological guidance.

This supplement to Canadian Selection: Books and Periodicals for Libraries (1978) contains 1800 new titles and 50 new periodicals published up to the end of 1979.

This set reissues 10 books on T.

Louis Trezevant Wigfall was a violent, mercurial man.

The only sustained study of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, the most significant digital resource of eighteenth-century material.

This encyclopedic guide to the American dime novel contains over 1,200 entries on serial publications, major writers and editors, publishers, and major characters, fiction genres, themes, and locales.

Wie keine andere literarische Gattung lebt die Lyrik von "Zwischentönen" - von Nuancen, Abstufungen, feinen Übergängen, Abtönungen.

The Battle of Shepherdstown and the End of the Campaign is the third and final volume of Ezra Carman’s magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862.

This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship and information as the original volume.

Published in 1979: This is a play based on the reign of King John with notes.

The book draws on letters, diaries, recent books and articles in History, but also relies on multi-disciplinary sources in politics and literature, along transnational comparisons to place the events in a broader perspective.

During his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln expressed hope that the "e;better angels of our nature"e; would prevail as war loomed.

The fourteen essays in Food, Texts, and Cultures in Latin America and Spain showcase the eye-opening potential of a food lens within colonial studies, ethnic and racial studies, gender and sexuality studies, and studies of power dynamics, nationalisms and nation building, theories of embodiment, and identity.

Border crossing is a significant experience in the global era when many people cross borders, whether in cultural, geopolitical, relational, or existential terms.

Formerly a site of study reserved for intellectual historians and political philosophers, scholarship on religious toleration, from the perspective of literary scholars, is fairly limited.

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.

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

Word Mingas is an English-language translation by Paul M.

Play Up and Play the Game (1973) examines the type of fictional hero most embodied in the work and character, poetry and philosophy of Sir Henry Newbolt.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature is a comprehensive reference resource including a wealth of critical material on a diverse range of topics within the literary study of Holocaust writing.

This comprehensive history of US Latina/o literature from the colonial period through the present elucidates the complex roots of Latina/o writing within the Americas.

First published in 1977, this book focuses on Modernism, one of the most frequently used terms in the discussion of twentieth-century literature and culture.

Major Characters in American Fiction is the perfect companion for everyone who loves literature--students, book-group members, and serious readers at every level.

All four figures in this volume have been canonized as central to 'stage-centred' Shakespearean scholarship and stage practice.

This is the first volume to provide a systematic overview of the core concepts in contemporary scholarship of war literature.

Although many white southerners chose to memorialize the Lost Cause in the aftermath of the Civil War, boosters, entrepreneurs, and architects in southern cities believed that economic development, rather than nostalgia, would foster reconciliation between North and South.

First published in 1991, Romantic Ecology reassesses the poetry of William Wordsworth in the context of the abiding pastoral tradition in English Literature.