Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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A study of how literature of the early eighteenth century represented a newly fashionable life of amusement and diversion.

In Guilty Pleasures, Alice Guilluy examines the reception of contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy by European audiences.

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.

This Element explores the witchy detective novel, a form which juxtaposes rational and enchanted ways of viewing the world.

The Unpopular Realism of Vincenzo Padula provides a microhistory of life in a Southern Italian province in the decade following Unificationand of Vincenzo Padula, who wrote single-handedly from March 1864 to July 1865 - a period when pro-Bourbon loyalists were attempting to exploit the discontent of the Region's poor masses by fomenting brigantry and reverse the Unification - Il Bruzio, a pro-Government periodical published in Cosenza.

In the decade following World War I, nineteenth-century womanhood came under attack not only from feminists but also from innumerable "e;ordinary"e; young women determined to create "e;modern"e; lives for themselves.

Analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s.

This Companion focuses on the novel as a global genre and examines its role, impact and development.

At risk of life and reputation, the reform journalist W.

This volume collects a wide-ranging sample of fresh analyses of Spider-Man.

The successful return of horror to our television screens in the post-millennial years, and across a multi-media range of platforms, demonstrates that this previously moribund genre is once again vibrant, challenging and long-lasting.

Complete with fresh perspectives, and drawing on the latest scholarship and biographical sources, The Life of D.

The 1950s are widely regarded as the golden age of American science fiction.

During the 1930s, the world of photography was unsettled, exciting, and boisterous.

Encyclopedia of Women in Politics, it examines the emergence of women in the light of modernization and democratization process set in lndia and the rest of world.

Unquestionably one of the greatest novelists of his time, Graham Greene had always guarded his privacy, remaining aloof, mysterious and unpredictable.

How does Dickens make his readers laugh?

During the early twentieth century, individuals and organizations from across the political spectrum launched a sustained effort to eradicate forced prostitution, commonly known as "e;white slavery.

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) was the first woman awarded the MD degree in the United States.

Revolutionizing Motherhood examines one of the most astonishing human rights movements of recent years.

The book provides an inclusive, engaging, innovative, and interdisciplinary overview of the often overlooked literary history of Chicago.

Gendered Justice takes a unique, multi-layered look at the various elements that factor into our understanding of domestic violence and how the criminal justice system handles situations of domestic violence.

Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening climate change, this book uses metaphors of magic and shapeshifting to imagine liveable futures achievable through other-than-rational means.

The author states here that Tolstoy was a great educator and his views on education were ingenious and profound.

Jonathan Lethem is the first full-length study dedicated to the work of an exciting, genre-busting contemporary writer with an increasingly high profile in American literature.

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Seneca's Letters, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Letters 51, 53 and 57, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed text to be read in English.

A collection of important essays from one of Ireland''s foremost literary and cultural historians.

As a field of scholarship, gender and politics has exploded over the last fifty years and is now global, institutionalized, and ever expanding.

Moments of royal succession, which punctuate the Stuart era (1603-1714), occasioned outpourings of literature.

A detailed account of how Joyce''s engagement with his readers shaped his work.

No state has a greater density of Chicano community leaders and politicians than does Texas.

Dieser Band ist dem Werk der polnischen Schriftstellerin Zofia Kossak (1889–1968) gewidmet, das in den Jahren des Zweiten Weltkrieges entstanden ist.

The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years  “Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the city as it was.

Although he called himself merely a "e;printer"e; in his will, Benjamin Franklin could have also called himself a diplomat, a doctor, an electrician, a frontier general, an inventor, a journalist, a legislator, a librarian, a magistrate, a postmaster, a promoter, a publisher-and a humorist.

Since the early 2000s, popular culture has experienced a "e;Zombie Renaissance,"e; beginning in film and expanding into books, television, video games, theatre productions, phone apps, collectibles and toys.

The first scholarly study of the phenomenon of the 'late-career novel', this book explores the ways in which bestselling contemporary novelists look back and respond to their earlier successes in their subsequent writings.

A comprehensive introduction to novelist and critic Ralph Ellison and his masterpiece Invisible Man.

History and National Ideology in Greek Postmodernist Fiction investigates the ways postmodernist literary techniques have been adopted by Greek authors.

The private non-rational pattern, the personal myth of an artist 'is in fact .

What if the traditional narrative about immigrant women--that those who come to the United States will succeed as long as they work hard, stay focused, and have supportive families--is a lie?

Cherokee women wielded significant power, and history demonstrates that in what is now America, indigenous women often bore the greater workload, both inside and outside the home.

The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction.

The book analyses attempts by Dickens and other nineteenth-century writers to challenge established ways of using the distinction between upper and lower case letters, in the interests of a wider radicalism.