A BRONT ENCYCLOPEDIA This lively, absorbing, meticulously researched compendium is a rich resource both for the general reader and for the specialist Bront scholar.
By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet s most creative period of life and writing.
By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet s most creative period of life and writing.
Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the 1890s.
Victorian Poets: A Critical Reader features a collection of critical essays focusing on various aspects of Victorian-era poetry from the 1830s to the 1890s.
This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism.
This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism.
Through original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-volume resource, which encompasses all aspects of Hardy's major novels, short stories, and poetry Informed by the latest in scholarly, critical, and theoretical debates from some of the world's leading Hardy scholars Reveals groundbreaking insights through examinations of Hardy s major novels, short stories, poetry, and drama Explores Hardy's work in the context of the major intellectual and socio-cultural currents of his time and assesses his legacy for subsequent writers
An absorbing survey of poetry written in one of the most revolutionary eras in the history of British literature This comprehensive survey of British Romantic poetry explores the work of six poets whose names are most closely associated with the Romantic era Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Byron, and Shelley as well as works by other significant but less widely studied poets such as Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
An absorbing survey of poetry written in one of the most revolutionary eras in the history of British literature This comprehensive survey of British Romantic poetry explores the work of six poets whose names are most closely associated with the Romantic era Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Byron, and Shelley as well as works by other significant but less widely studied poets such as Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis.
Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis.
El Protocolo Malatesta es una trama irónica sobre las urdimbres y farsas que vivió el mundo occidental a finales del siglo XIX en medio de una ola de terrorismo anarquista que, entre otras cosas, costó la vida a un rey, una emperatriz, dos presidentes y un primer ministro.
Humboldts Begegnung mit der Antike, vor allem mit der griechischen Sprache und Dichtung, ist das erste prägende geistige Erlebnis, das Humboldts Leben von der Tegeler Jugend an durchzieht.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Memoirs, Letters and Autobiographical Works"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
'This book is a love letter to the Mediterranean - full of flavours and the kind of wisdom that only a woman who travels with her own set of knives can impart.
This work traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture.
This book examines the ideological affinity that can be established between the classical 'Bildungsroman' and colonialist ideology on the basis of a literary analysis of 'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre'-considered by most critics to be the origin of the genre-and 'Great Expectations'-one of the paradigmatic examples of the development of the Bildungsroman in English literature.
A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "e;early"e; and "e;late"e; workJane Austen's six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent a body of work that is as brilliant as it is compact.
From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thoughtIn Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James, tells the connected stories of how these foundational American writers and thinkers dealt with personal tragedies early in their careers.
The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901.
This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war.
This book introduces Mark Twain through close readings of his seven major works, including Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Connecticut Yankee and Pudd nhead Wilson.
