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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 320Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press

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...

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...

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

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...

This companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market. Biographical sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the topics that concerned them and the genres they...

This collection provides a lucid introduction for those unfamiliar with TagoreOs work, while simultaneously presenting important new scholarship and novel interpretation about the greatest modern writer of India.Book InformationISBN 9781611472554Author...

What do Paddington Bear, Rupert Bear, and Winnie the Pooh have in common, besides their ursine roots? They lived in real places, as well as in the imaginations of countless generations. Those places still exist. And inveterate globetrotter Mark West has...

Explores the way Italian women writers craft identities through writing.In this important volume, Graziella Parati examines the ways in which Italian women writers articulate their identities through autobiography-a public act that is also the creation...

This book begins with a study of the few ancient texts which provide the source material for all subsequent accounts of the seventh-century British queen Boudica and her ferocious yet ultimately unsuccessful rebellion against the Romans. It shows how...

An important contribution to the study of authorship and criticism, Regulating Readers adds to a growing body of scholarship by women that shows eighteenth-century women writers envisioning for themselves authoritative critical positions and roles in the...

Fortunata y Jacinta is the magnum opus of Benito Pérez Galdós, acknowledged in the field of Spanish letters as second only in importance to Cervantes. This study is an analysis of the different parts of the manuscript as "palimpsest," or layering of...

This collection of essays attempts to describe, analyze, and interpret the literary events and practices that characterize the last two OOpostrevolutionaryOO decades of Portuguese political and cultural life.Book InformationISBN 9781611480887Author...

This study explores the dialectic of destruction and renewal in the work that Samuel Beckett regarded as his masterpiece: the trilogy of novels he wrote after World War II. It interprets the trilogy as presenting a subversive critique of the three idols:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642656671Author Yann MartelFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint H.W. Wilson Publishing Co.Publisher H.W. Wilson Publishing Co.

This book is a comparative approach that treats the formidable psychosexual and gothic content, as phrased through a rhetoric of rebellion, death, and illness, in the works of Ugo Tarchetti and others. Del PrincipeOs psychoanalytic-feminist...

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808404477Author Sui Sin FarFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156029926Author Gunter GrassFormat PaperbackPage Count 307Imprint HarperviaPublisher HarperviaWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 205mm * 135mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061775055Author Kenneth C DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061719806Author Kenneth C DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 177g

This collection of essays presents a fresh analysis of the complete theater evening that was available to audiences in the Restoration in early nineteenth-century playhouses. The contributing scholars focus not on the mainpiece, the advertised play...

By Shakespeare's time, the debate over legitimate medical practice had become vociferous and public. The powerful College of Physicians fought hard to discredit some and reign in others, but many resisted, denied, or ignored its authority. Dramatists did...

Rebecca West is currently enjoying a long-overdue and sustained revival. The contemporary relevance of her ideas about gender relations, nationalism, warfare, cultural identity, art, and religion is startling and revealing. In an article on West's...

For more information on similar titles, please visit www.lexingtonbooks.comBook InformationISBN 9781611471359Author James E. HirshFormat HardbackPage Count 221Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University PressPublisher Fairleigh Dickinson University...

This study demonstrates that jazz as it appeared in narrative fiction was often used as a forum to address the nation's anxieties in the turbulent years during which the United States gradually changed from a nation dedicated to an isolationist policy to...

In this well-illustrated text, Dr. Denney asserts that the artists who image Diana, Princess of Wales, have framed her according to a cultural memory based on traditions of royal portraiture and according to twentieth-century reassertions (that is,...

This book explores the life and fiction of the French decadent writer Rachilde (pen name of Marguerite Eymery), using her as a case study to examine the impact late nineteenth-century theories about female hysteria, medical hypnotism, mediums, and...

Laurence Sterne, the author of the innovative fictions The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey, served most of his life as a rural Anglican clergyman in Yorkshire, England; for twenty years his sermons were his...

Two predominant critical assumptions about Samuel Richardson-that he is a feminist and that his novels aim to exert a straightforward didactic influence on readers-are challenged by this comparative study of female exemplarity in Clarissa, Sir Charles...

This book re-examines the literary significance of poet and translator William Cowper (1731-1800). Too often, Cowper is pigeonholed as an eccentric, a hopeless depressive, or even as a religious lunatic. Often regarded as an 'early' Romantic, Cowper is...