Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

This book is the first omnibus history of the literature of the American Civil War, the deadliest conflict in US history.

In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Theri Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive.

Wyoming became the first American state to adopt female suffrage in 1869--a time when no country permitted women to vote.

This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014Transnational Tolstoy renews and enhances our understanding of Tolstoy's fiction in the context of "e;World Literature,"e; a term that he himself used in What is Art?

Written by expert professionals, this book provides comprehensive information about available support for women and girls with ADHD and tips for clinicians and professionals who work with them.

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

International Encyclopaedia of Women and Crime deals with the said subject in its totality.

A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEnovels by Virginia Woolf, D.

A lively and accessible introduction for general readers, students, teachers, and academics.

*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize*In late eighteenth-century London, a group of extraordinary people gathered around a dining table once a week.

With women making up only 14 percent of Congress and with only eight women CEOs in the entire group of Fortune 500 companies, women's collective voices are clearly underrepresented.

This fully updated Reader provides a comprehensive review of recent research and legislation relating to domestic violence and its consequences for children, and identifies the implications for practice.

First published in 1984, this title examines the development of a special rhetoric in Dickens' work, which, by using grotesque effects, challenged the complacency of his middle-class Victorian readers.

An overview of British fiction written between the mid-1760s and the early 1830s in its historical and cultural contexts.

The interplay between solitude and society was a particularly persistent theme in nineteenth-century American literature, though writers approached this theme in different ways.

Blacks in Canada journeys from the introduction of slavery in 1628 to the first wave of Caribbean immigration in the 1950s and 1960s.

This book argues for the importance of popular music in negotiations of national identity, and Germanness in particular.

In the 19th century, an era that saw a reconfiguration of the relationship between the self, the world and the divine, women writers probed the theological depths of embodied faith in new ways through poetry, fiction, devotional prose and life writing.

Spirit-filled devotionals, written by women for women, from the editors of Daily Guideposts, America's favorite devotional for more than 40 years365 Spirit-Lifting Devotions for Women forms a tapestry of life's emotions - joy and laughter, heartache and healing, lessons to be savored and explored.

Find hope and confidence (in 5 minutes a day) to live boldly and courageously, fully trusting our faithful God.

The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature identifies a documentary impulse in French literature that emerges at the end of the nineteenth century and culminates in a proliferation of factual writings in the twenty-first.

The Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) is growing each day.

The Relocation of Culture is about accents and borders-about people and cultures that have accents and that cross borders.

Putting Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in historical context, connecting it to pivotal issues like slavery, class, money, and American economic expansion, this book engages readers by presenting American history through the lens of a great novel.

A compelling, comprehensive, and substantive introduction to the work of David Foster Wallace.

Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of the Old West's most nefarious outlaws, notorious women, and celebrated lawmen.

The rise of suburbs and disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century.

Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism.

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

Violence affects the lives of millions of women world-wide, in all socio-economic and educational classes.

A detailed analysis of Dostoevsky''s thought about folklore and his uses of popular culture and imagery in his work.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Home is a scathing attack on the domesticity of women in the early 20th century.

Biofiction, defined as literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, first became popular in the 1930s, but over the last forty years it has become a dominant literary form.

The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe offers a full historical survey of Dickens's reception in all the major European countries and many of the smaller ones, filling a major gap in Dickens scholarship, which has by and large neglected Dickens's fortunes in Europe, and his impact on major European authors and movements.

No band has ever been able to demonstrate the enduring power of rock and roll quite like the Rolling Stones, who continue to enthrall, provoke, and invigorate their legions of fans more than fifty years since they began.

'Searingly honest and important' RACHEL CLARKEHonest, intelligent and unsentimental, Patient 1 is a startling self-portrait written with wit and vulnerability, and a unique testament to the power of hope in the face of illness.

Extends the field of translation studies and theory by examining three radical science-fiction treatments of translation.

This collection demonstrates the centrality of Elizabeth Bishop''s poetry and prose to twentieth-century culture.

Years before she published her internationally celebrated first novel, Anne of Green Gables, L.

Christian Zionism has received no small amount of criticism from observers who take issue with the movement's pro-Israel politics or its theology.

Volume V of A History of Persian Literature presents a broad survey of Persian prose: from biographical, historiographical, and didactic prose, to scientific manuals and works of popular prose fiction.

This collection of new fiction, essays, and interviewsincluding celebrated authors Margaret Atwood, China Mieville, Maureen McHugh, and Charlie Jane Andersconjures visions of political, environmental, and gender dystopias.

In recent years, the global justice movement has grabbed headlines and reshaped political imaginations worldwide.

Eine Interpretation der Werke von Thomas Bernhard ist fast unmöglich, da er - wie er selbst sagt - eine Sprache spricht, die nur er versteht.