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his study places Defoe's major fiction squarely in the emerging Whig culture of the early eighteenth century. It offers an alternative to the view that Defoe is essentially a writer of criminal or adventure fiction and to the Marxist judgment that he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935625902Author Mark HusseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams) 304g

This book focuses on a prominent female poet of eighteenth century China, Qu Bingyun. Qu was a leader of a famous group of female poets known as the Female Disciples of Yuan Mei. This book explores the development of Qu as a poet and examines her unique...

Balzac claimed that toilettes were the expression of society. Coiffures describes the historical and cultural practices associated with women's hairstyles, hair care, and hair art in nineteenth-century France. Hair also has profound symbolic significance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979220Author Wayne K. ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams)...

This volume is intended as an introduction of contemporary poetry by notable Uruguayan poets to the English-reading world, but also to readers of Spanish unfamiliar with them. Each poet is represented by an ample and varied selection of poems originally...

The dictionary lists each character from Pynchon's fiction up through his most recent novel, including the most likely etymology of each name. In addition, the thorough introduction examines Pynchon's character names as a part of his greater literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532670770Author Mary RisoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532677236Author Colin N ManloveFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 367g

The word is all over Austen's novels: what ought to be done, what one ought to say, how one ought to feel (versus how one does feel). When Austen's characters employ an ought, the delicate oscillation between first- and third-person perspectives that...

On the Dark Side of the Archive examines nineteenth-century nation building through narratives that are not part of the romantic or realist traditions, specifically those associated with the critique of traditional ideas often portrayed in Decadentism...

In this elegant but pocketable edition, passionate bibliophile Michael Ross has curated 106 favorite literary quotes from the collection of over 1500 well-read books on his shelves but this isn't your typical rehashing of Bartlett's quotations. Michael...

In nineteenth-century France an obsession with jealousy swept the culture as a whole. Virtually every major French novelist employed it as a central plot device. At the same time, jealousy became a key theme for a broad range of medical, journalistic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532670787Author Mary RisoFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614983194Author Derrick HusseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

No history of the longstanding critical tradition of exploring the Spenser-Ovid relationship has been written. In this book Professor Stapleton constructs such a critical history: the annotations of E. K. in The Shepheardes Calender (1579), the...

In creating some of the most enduring characters in 20th century literature, Burroughs (1875-1950) left a complex bibliographic record of editions, and a long chain of fascinated collectors. The present reference work details all United States versions...

Gothic Terrors brings together two discursive fields that have had very little contact hitherto: gothic studies and Hispanism. Though widely accepted in English studies, Hispanists seldom invoke the concept of a Gothic mode existing beyond its first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358724462Author Kaleemuddin AhmadFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer PublicationsWeight(grams) 41g

This book addresses the place of women writers in anthologies and other literary collections in eighteenth-century England. It explores and contextualizes the ways in which two different kinds of printed material-poetic miscellanies and biographical...

The most significant European poet of the second half of the twentieth century, Paul Celan, viewed poetry as "the language of an individual that has become form," an individual that is constructed through the act of observation in the poem...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979213Author Wayne K ChapmanFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams) 640g

Justice, Women, and Power in English Renaissance Drama is a collection of essays that explores the relationship of gender and justice as represented in English Renaissance drama. Many of the essays are concerned with interrogating the ways that women...

We are so used to calling the plays written by Shakespeare and his contemporaries 'poetic drama' that we hardly ever stop to think about the generic meaning of the term. This book is an attempt to explore Shakespeare's artistic achievement as an...

This book presents a series of essays that examine the ideological, personal, and political difficulties faced by the group variously termed the Anglo-Irish, the Protestant Ascendancy, or the English in Ireland, a group that existed in a world of...

The third installment of Steven Carter's multi-volume series 222: Aphorisms & Reflections features 222 additional entries, including a generous sampling of "meetings of the minds"-dialogues between the author and aphorists and thinkers of...

James Lee Burke is an acclaimed writer of crime novels in which protagonists battle low-life thugs who commit violent crimes and corporate executives who exploit the powerless. He is best known for his Dave Robicheaux series, set in New Orleans and...

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The Bard penned 38 plays, 154 sonnets and several other poems. This is a rich collection, thoroughly indexed, of 6,516 extraordinarily apt quotations, arranged under 1,275 topics that cover almost the entire range of human effort and thought, from...

In the mid-1980s, Amy Tan was a successful but unhappy corporate speechwriter. By the end of the decade, she was perched firmly atop the best-seller lists with The Joy Luck Club, with more hugely popular novels to follow. Tan's work - once pigeonholed as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441503220Author Omolola Anne FamuyiwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 118g

During even a cursory reading of the "literature about books," students of bibliography frequently have initial difficulties in understanding some of the terms they encounter. In A Bibliographical Companion, Roy Stokes provides an alphabetical...

In 1934, Ngaio Marsh's first novel, A Man Lay Dead, was published to critical acclaim. For the next fifty years, Marsh wrote more than 30 English detective novels, while simultaneously building a reputation as a distinguished director of Shakespearean...

New Aphorisms & Reflections: Third Series, the sixth volume in a sequence which began with 222: Aphorisms & Reflections, features more than 450 entries, some of which are autobiographical. Like its predecessors, New Aphorisms & Reflections...

New Aphorisms & Reflections: Second Series, the fifth volume of a major work in progress, features more than 400 entries, some of which are autobiographical. Like its predecessors, New Aphorisms & Reflections includes a sampling of "meetings...

The second installment of Steven Carter's multi-volume series 222: Aphorisms & Reflections features 222 additional entries, including a generous sampling of "meetings of the minds"-dialogues between the author and aphorists and thinkers of...

222: Aphorisms & Reflections is an attempt to breathe new life into the art of the aphorism and the brief reflection (or meditation), brought to near-perfection in Western culture over the last five centuries by Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Lichtenberg,...

Paul's Literary Style determines quantitatively how Paul varies the style of his writing to assist communication with different communities and to ascertain some constant characteristics of his writing. Using 2 Corinthians 11:16-12:13, Romans 8:9-39, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892969685Author Susan Prince OleskiwFormat PaperbackPage Count 588Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes. The detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers...