Biography, Literature and Literary studies

In 1857, Charles Spurgeonthe most popular preacher in the Victorian worldpromised his readersthathe would publish his earliest sermons.

A study of the brilliant satirist and polemicist Jonathan Swift, by one of the foremost scholars of our time.

The Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir has two main purposes.

Covers the Victorian period, bringing together a range of texts reflecting the role of women in an era when their cultural influence broadened as science, religious doubt, and the idea of the nation evolved as systems of cultural representation.

This book begins with a history of the detective genre, coextensive with the novel itself, identifying the attitudes and institutions needed for the genre to emerge in its mature form around 1880.

In the first comprehensive study of African American war literature, Jennifer James analyzes fiction, poetry, autobiography, and histories about the major wars waged before the desegregation of the U.

Colloquial Mongolian is easy to use and completely up to date!

Baptists in America began the eighteenth century a small, scattered, often harassed sect in a vast sea of religious options.

Considering a range of neglected material, this book provides a richer view of how crime and criminality were understood between the wars.

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Jennette McCurdy erzählt herzergreifend und mit bitterem Humor von ihrem traumatischen Leben als ehemaliger Kinder-Star in »iCarly« und der krankhaften Beziehung zu ihrer MutterSeit sie denken kann, wird Jennette von ihrer Mutter beherrscht, emotional erpresst und psychisch wie körperlich missbraucht.

Revolutionary Imaginings in the 1790s discusses the work of three prominent women writers by focusing on the response to the French Revolution and the struggle for reform in Britain.

'Quite simply the best version of Dante there is' PAUL MULDOON, Irish Times.

This book studies the transnational nature of American cultural production, specifically literature, film, and music, examining how these serve as ways of perceiving the United States and American culture.

This study provides extensive readings of overlooked American reconstructions of Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales from the colonial to postmodern periods, demonstrating how these repackagings convey uniquely American ideas.

In the early twentieth century, a small group of psychologists built a profession upon the new social technology of intelligence testing.

An examination of political and cultural acts of commemoration, this study addresses the way personal and collective loss is registered in prose, poetry and drama in early modern England.

Aus Besprechungen zur ersten Auflage:Günter Waldmann hat ein Buch vorgelegt, das sich als systematische Einführung in diesen unterrichtlich oft schwer zu vermittelnden Bereich der Literatur versteht und die Gattung Lyrik nicht von ihren abstrakten literarischen Formen, sondern von der aktiv-produktiven Rezeption des Lesers her erfahrbar werden lässt.

The purpose of this book is to contribute to the appreciation of the linguistic, literary and contextual value of Homeric personal names.

Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as confining or restrictive.

Lesser Feasts and Fasts had not been updated since 2006.

Many Americans' first encounter with international modernism came, not on the page, but in person-through the widespread phenomenon of the US lecture tour.

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Keywords in Remix Studies consists of twenty-four chapters authored by researchers who share interests in remix studies and remix culture throughout the arts and humanities.

The history of Cincinnati runs much deeper than the stories of hogs that once roamed downtown streets.

Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations: Studies in Cognitive Poetics presents multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research papers describing new developments in the field of cognitive poetics.

When I have wandered long enough what am I still beholden to?

First full-length study of these crucial buildings in the Morte, looking at the interplay between characters and space.

Eine mitreißende Biografie über Martin Luther King von Alois Prinz.

Gripping drama of teenage struggle by talented new writer'I walk to parks and stare into space.

The ';masterful' (The Wall Street Journal), ';invaluable' (Los Angeles Times) first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American playwriting of the late 20th century, by a theater critic who knew him.

In this entrancing account, space traveler Michael Collins recalls his early days as an Air Force test pilot, his astronaut training at NASA, and his unparalleled experiences in orbit, including the Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar landing.

Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such violence, and analyzes ways in which Muslim women participate in the public sphere by thematizing violence in literature, art, and media.

Working with the technologies of pen and paper, scissors and glue, naturalists in early modern England, Scotland, and Wales wrote, revised, and recombined their words, sometimes over a period of many years, before fixing them in printed form.

In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years.

A prolific writer, famous pacifist, respected teacher, and literary mentor to many, William Stafford is one of the great American poets of the 20th century.

The Western magical traditions are currently undergoing an international resurgence.

Band I von Reiner Wilds Gesamtdarstellung der Alterslyrik Goethes behandelt die Zeitspanne zwischen dem Todesjahr Schillers 1805 und 1813/14, dem Ende der napoleonischen Ära.

This book assesses the importance of poetry for the Old Icelandic literary flowering of c.

A bestselling historian takes readers on an intellectual and cultural adventure, offering a carefully curated guide to great, short nonfiction works by some of the world's most influential writersfrom Plato to Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway to bell hooks, and Marcus Aurelius to Joan Didion.

This is the untold story of the American federal agent who captured the world's most-wanted drug-lord.

During the early days of rock and roll the mob used every tactic they could, from creating their own record labels, bribing radio DJs and stacking jukeboxes with their own artists, to exploiting and intimidating performers, and creating their own black market of bootlegged records, to make millions.