Women's Voices in Manga investigates how manga reflect women's gender issues and social problems within the context of Japanese history, culture, and society.
In her biography of writer Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964, nee Mary Flannery), Mary Carpenter introduces young readers to one of the most renowned American authors.
Prolific Scottish novelist Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897), remembered chiefly for her realist fiction and biting literary criticism of contemporary authors, also wrote nineteen supernatural tales.
Philippe de Vigneulles (1471-1528), cloth merchant and hosier from the city of Metz, wrote a collection of comic short stories which he called Cent Nouvelles ou contes joyeux.
The profound impact of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Western thought has been frequently examined, yet the extent of Goethe's relationship to Rousseau has never before received thorough study.
A research guide for specialists in the Gothic novel, the Romantic movement, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, and popular culture, this work contains summaries of more than two hundred novels, reputed to be Gothic, published in English between 1790 and 1830.
