Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Aquinas and Calvin on Romans is a comparative study of John Calvin's and Thomas Aquinas's commentaries on the first eight chapters of Paul's letter to the Romans.

Offers insights into the society which produced and consumed anti-Jacobin novels.

In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine.

This Companion engages with key debates surrounding the interpretation and reception of Elizabeth Bishop''s published and unpublished writing.

In today's polarized publics, we are rarely prepared to encounter one another peaceably and deeply across irreconcilable difference.

The years of the Spanish Civil War filled twentieth-century Spain with hope, frustration and drama.

The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian denomination and claims a membership of some 80 million members in about 164 countries.

In dark or desperate times, the artwork is placed in a difficult position.

This volume brings together academics from the USA and across Europe to examine the nature, representations and perceptions of the figure of the spy in Europe between 1815 and 1914.

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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro s long experience as a celebrated writer and teacher of writing.

South Asian writers reference Latin American literature to identify against the Anglophone globe, even as they circulate within it.

A significant expansion of the critically acclaimed first edition, Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, 2d ed.

"e;This study demonstrates the previously unrecognised significance of discourses of saintliness for constructions of gender and national identity in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Spanish culture.

While Jane Austen is often regarded as an author who embodies Georgian refinement and restraint, this book argues that her work was deeply engaged with the medieval tradition of courtly love and its investment in happy endings.

In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality.

Die sich in den Globalisierungszeiten vollziehende Re-Definition des Begriffs Heimat regt zu einer Reflexion des Verständnisses in literarischen Texten an, insbesondere im Werk jener Autoren, die sich stark mit einer Region identifizieren, über den Verlust ihrer Heimat trauern sowie sich als Flüchtlinge, Vertriebene oder Migranten in eine neue einzuleben versuchen.

Eine wissenschaftlich abgesicherte Edition von Gottfrieds Tristan-Roman gehörte lange zu den größten Desideraten der germanistischen Mediävistik: Bisher gab es keine Ausgabe, die einen verlässlichen Text oder einen vollständigen Variantenapparat bot.

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.

Amitav Ghosh is an authoritative critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades.

Returning to revolution's original meaning of 'cycle', Contemporary Revolutions explores how 21st-century writers, artists, and performers re-engage the arts of the past to reimagine a present and future encompassing revolutionary commitments to justice and freedom.

This book, first published in 1984, was the first full biography of Solzhenitsyn.

This Companion addresses an exciting emerging field of literary scholarship that charts the intersections of postcolonial studies and travel writing.

This volume offers a new introduction to the American Renaissance, exploring many of the key themes, genres, and social and cultural contexts that inform the best new scholarship in the field.

Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York novelist.

Join award-winning author Devin Brown as he takes readers on a fascinating journey to the land of Narnia.

This text argues that both Victorian psychology and the novel made significant contributions to both contemporary and current trauma theory.

From the travel writing of the eccentric plant collector and Reginald Farrer, to Emily Hahn's insider depictions of bohemian life in semi-colonial Shanghai, to Ezra Pound's mediated 'journeys' to Southwest China via the explorer Joseph Rock - Anglo-American representations of China during the first half of the twentieth century were often unconventional in terms of style, form, and content.

In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of an ordinary farm in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.

Introduces the work of James Joyce, the literary, historical and political contexts in which he wrote and his critical reception up to the present day.

An expansive study of the novel''s moral ambivalence toward procreation, from the nineteenth century through modernism to the present.

In Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel Andrew Gibson sets out to demonstrate that postmodern theory has actually made possible an ethical discourse around fiction.

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

A collection of essays by one of the most important scholars of Victorian literature and culture.

Das Leben zweier Brüder: Sie jagten Käfer am Steinhuder Meer, der eine rettete dem anderen das Leben auf den Schlachtfeldern des Ersten Weltkriegs, gemeinsam schockierten sie das Bürgertum in den 20er-und 30er-Jahren, durchlebten die deutsche Katastrophe in der inneren Emigration und begründeten den ökologischen Konservatismus der Bundesrepublik.

"e;The evil that men do"e; has been chronicled for thousands of years on the European stage, and perhaps nowhere else is human fear of our own evil more detailed than in its personifications in theater.

This volume reframes mid-century African American literature as highly conscious of transnational and international politics, textual circulation, and revolutionary imaginaries.

The Augustan Age (1962) examines the writing of the time, and the critical theory that supported it.

After years of discussion within the field of anthropology concerning how to properly engage with theology, a growing number of anthropologists now want to engage with theology as a counterpart in ethnographic dialogue.