Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

This book is about the idea of space in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Representations of language learning and literacy, also known as "e;literacy narratives"e; are a staple of literature.

Charlotte Bronte's final novel Villette (1853) is associated with ambiguity because of its open ending: Does M.

The art of the early republic abounds in representations of deception: the villains of Gothic novels deceive their victims with visual and acoustic tricks; the ordinary citizens of picaresque novels are hoodwinked by quacks and illiterate but shrewd adventurers; and innocent sentimental heroines fall for their seducers' eloquently voiced half-truths and lies.

An overview of the history of the novel with practical tips and examples for studying fiction.

This book explores the meanings of European peripheries in postcolonial literary imagination.

Romantic Appropriations of History: The Legends of Joanna Baillie and Margaret Holford Hodson focuses on Joanna Baillie's Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters (1821) and on various historical tales, either written or translated, by one of her very close friends, Margaret Holford Hodson.

Hemingway''s letters, many previously unpublished, trace his rise to international renown providing a rich account of the artist (April 1929–1931).

Relying on the author's personal recollections as well as on J.

his volume forms part of a continuing initiative by Wayne R.

This 2007 Companion is a collection of essays on the life and works of George Orwell.

This Reader's Guide analyses the critical history of two of Hardy's major tragic novels, from the time of their publication to the present.

Modernity's Metonyms considers the representation of temporal frameworks in stories by the nineteenth-century Spanish authors, Leopoldo Alas and Antonio Ros de Olano.

Post-Apartheid Gothic: White South African Writers and Space analyzes the representation of space in recent works by South African writers.

For more than 60 years, Captain America was one of Marvel Comics' flagship characters, representing truth, strength, liberty, and justice.

Adam Parkes investigates the literary and cultural implications of the censorship encountered by several modern novelists in the early twentieth century.

It's a rare comic character who can make audiences laugh for well over half a century--but then again, it's a pretty rare cartoon hero who can boast of forearms thicker than his waist, who can down a can of spinach in a single gulp, or who generally faces the world with one eye squinted completely shut.

Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to readers of all kinds, including professional literary critics.

Bernard Bergonzi has been reading Graham Greene for many years; he still possesses the original edition of The End of the Affair that he bought when it was published in 1951.

This volume seeks to use Joyce''s canonical centrality to inform modernist studies more broadly.

Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations of writers ranging from Ernest Hemingway, W.

Focussing upon both canonical figures such as Woolf, Eliot, Pound, and Stein and emergent themes such as Christian modernism, intermedial modernism, queer Harlem Renaissance, this volume brings together previously unseen materials, from various archives, to bear upon cutting-edge interpretation of modernism.

Focusing on formal realism has obscured how important the novel actually was to Enlightenment empiricism.

Ein einzigartiges popkulturelles Spiel mit dem Belgrad der Neunziger – und zugleich ein verrückter Wettlauf gegen eine Zeit, die die Gesellschaft eindeutig verschissen hat.

A newly edited and richly annotated version of Joseph Conrad''s Heart of Darkness, now considered a classic of early modernism.

When Dickens was nineteen years old, he wrote a poem for Maria Beadnell, the young woman he wished to marry.

Eliza de Feuillide seemed fascinating and outlandish to her cousins in rural eighteen century England.

Connects British and American literature to a changing media landscape in an era of innovation.

Since The Grass is Singing was published in 1950, Doris Lessing has commanded a widespread and heterogeneous readership.

This book introduces the life and thought of two British contemporaries who were decisive in shaping the modern ecumenical movement: the Scottish layman J.

''An elegant, absorbing book.

In Steinbeck's Imaginarium, Robert DeMott delves into the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck's writing.

In this book, Maria Pretzler combines a thorough introduction to Pausanias with exciting new perspectives.

At Macedonio Fernandez's funeral in 1952, Jorge Luis Borges delivered the following elegy: "e;In those years I imitated him to the point of transcription, to the point of devout and passionate plagiarism.

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is considered by many to be one of the greatest novels ever written.

This study explores the concept of Stimmung in literary and philosophical texts of the modern age.

In addition to contributing significantly to the growing field of Burroughs scholarship, Burroughs Unbound also directly engages with the growing fields of textual studies, archival research, and genetic criticism, asking crucial questions thereby about the nature of archives and their relationship to a writer's work.

The Victorian illustrated book came into being, flourished, and evolved during the long nineteenth century.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years.

Die Soldaten im Chaco-Krieg zwischen Bolivien und Paraguay (1932–35) kämpften vor allem mit einem großen Wassermangel, die amerikanischen Soldaten im Spanisch-Amerikanischen-Krieg auf Kuba (1898) dagegen mit Nässe, Fäulnis und Seuchen, die Soldaten im Ersten Weltkrieg mit der industrialisierten Kriegsführung.