"Die Welt steht auf kein‘ Fall mehr lang", singt der Schuster Knieriem in Nestroys Stück Lumpazivagabundus (1833) und Karl Kraus bezeichnete Österreich einmal als "Versuchsstation des Weltuntergangs".
Crime fiction has been one of the most popular genres since the 19th century, but has roots in works as varied as Sophocles, Herodotus, and Shakespeare.
Frances Hodgson Burnett is remembered today as the author of the children's classic "e;The Secret Garden,"e; but in her lifetime she had a long and successful career as a novelist, dramatist, and writer of children's stories.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society.
The Handbook of American Romanticism presents a comprehensive survey of the various schools, authors, and works that constituted antebellum literature in the United States.
Praise for UPTON SINCLAIR and the other American Century"e;I look forward to all of Kevin Mattson's works of history and I've notbeen disappointed yet.
Crime fiction has been one of the most popular genres since the 19th century, but has roots in works as varied as Sophocles, Herodotus, and Shakespeare.
How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action or at least raise their environmental awareness without, however, appearing didactic?
The Handbook of American Romanticism presents a comprehensive survey of the various schools, authors, and works that constituted antebellum literature in the United States.
Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror is the first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror.
Investigating the representation of artefacts, objects and 'things' in a range of predominantly Western archaeological fiction from the late Victorian period to the modern day, this book examines the narratives through which humanity represents its own material heritage in relation to notions of enchantment, exhibition, estrangement, adventure, tourism and waste.
Thomas Wolfes Buch 'Vom Tod zum Morgen' ist ein beeindruckender literarischer Text, der tief in die menschliche Seele eindringt und existenzielle Fragen aufwirft.
The Essential Writings of Theodore Dreiser brings together a collection of the most impactful works by the renowned American author, exploring themes of social class, morality, and human nature.
In Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel, 'Jacob's Room,' the author explores themes of loss, memory, and the nature of reality through her innovative stream-of-consciousness narrative style.
This book presents a synthesised framework for analysing archival poetics in multimodal literature, examining case studies from twenty-first-century American fiction towards elucidating the archival turn in contemporary literature more broadly.
Virginia Woolf's collection of essays, titled 'The Greatest Essays of Virginia Woolf', offers readers a unique insight into the mind of one of the most prominent modernist writers of the 20th century.
