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Although often overlooked today, James Fenimore Cooper's novels represent the very beginnings of American literature. Singlehandedly, the gentleman farmer from upstate New York created the American historical, spy, sea, frontier, science fiction, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906964245Author Gary DexterFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing

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This Element throws new light on James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson by investigating its early publication history. Despite precarious psychological and financial circumstances and other limitations, Boswell was both author and publisher of the...

With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into...

"A work of enormous importance. Of all the poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman is the one that most deserves and needs annotation of the fullest and best possible kind, both because it is a text of unrivaled literary quality and interest, and...

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Threshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity is a study of the challenge intersubjective experience poses to doctrinal formulations of difference. Focusing on Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes and using feminist and relational psychoanalytic theory,...

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Edith Wharton enjoyed a complex relationship with earlymodernism. On the one hand, as a writer committed to the seriousness of novel writing as an art, her love of French literature and her close relationship with Henry James made her open to experiment...

The revisions of the French Revolution by three prominent eighteenth- century writers are focused on in this book. The implication in the OtraditionO these writers rebelled against raises fundamental questions about the representations of rebels and...

This book is the first work in the English language to discuss the participation of women writers in the narrative construction of Mozambican nationhood over the past half-century. Covering the rise of anti-colonial nationalism in the 1950s, the advent...

The subjects of the essays in Latin American Shakespeares range from the nineteenth century through the present; from high- to middle- to low-brow stories, plays, films, and poems; from Mexico to Argentina, Chile, Cuba, the U.S. barrio, and diverse...

This Companion presents an authoritative study of British utopian literature and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Written by leading scholars, it offers a wide-ranging account of utopian thinking in novels, plays, films, TV, fanzines,...

This Companion presents an authoritative study of British utopian literature and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Written by leading scholars, it offers a wide-ranging account of utopian thinking in novels, plays, films, TV, fanzines,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916074385Author Rosamund ConnellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 2Imprint The Literary Map CompanyPublisher The Literary Map Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781918125023Author Sander PleijFormat PaperbackImprint Ra & Olly LtdPublisher Ra & Olly Ltd

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a...

This book by a major scholar of William Faulkner's writings collects choice selections of his Faulkner criticism from the past fifteen years. Its publication underscores the significance of his indispensable work in Faulkner studies, both in criticism...

This encyclopedia introduces readers to American poetry, fiction and nonfiction with a focus on the environment (broadly defined as humanity's natural surroundings), from the discovery of America through the present. The work includes biographical and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529923261Author Orlando ReadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint VintagePublisher Vintage PublishingWeight(grams) 200g

Read an interview with Norbert Bachleitner. In this 200th volume of Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft the editors Norbert Bachleitner, Achim H. Hölter and John A. McCarthy ‘take stock’ of the discipline...

For Mark Twain, it was love at first landfall. Samuel Clemens first encountered the Bermuda Islands in 1867 on a return voyage from the Holy Land and found them much to his liking. One of the most isolated spots in the world, Bermuda offered the writer a...

This is an assessment of the Central and East European Publishing Project, an initiative designed to support embattled Central and East European publishers and journals, and to punch holes through the cultural Iron Curtain by encouraging translations...

This volume illuminates and gives voice to actors, objects, events, and processes from the early 1400s to the late 1800s and thinks about how they may relate to Latinx expressive literatures and cultures, challenging common paradigms that think of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362999009Author Marcus Tullius CiceroPage Count 208Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662426339Author Roy D PerkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Page Publishing, IncPublisher Page Publishing, IncWeight(grams) 152g

Gleaning Modernity shows how earlier eighteenth-century literary texts might have eased the way for Britain's increasing modernity. They allowed Modern scenarios to be played out imaginatively, as simulations for experimental, predictive ends. The...

This book builds upon critical reevaluations of modernism and British literature of the 1930s with a simultaneous focus on discourses of race, gender, and empire. The essays direct attention to the complications and ambivalence accumulating around the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788126104833Format HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Anmol Publications Pvt LtdPublisher Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd

This volume explores a wide range of Victorian texts, including novels, poems, sermons, and some less easily categorized writings, in terms of their use of language and imagery suggestive of the Apocalypse. The focus is less upon the conscious or...

The Norton Introduction to Literature helps all students become close readers and confident writers because it offers trusted writing and reading guidance they need, along with the exciting mix of stories, poems, and plays instructors want. Newly added...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476691343Author Larry GaffneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487577070Author Isabel McLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 653g

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2018 The digital age has had a profound impact on literary culture, with new technologies opening up opportunities for new forms of literary art from hyperfiction to multi-media poetry and narrative-driven games...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915556288Author Will SherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Luna Press PublishingPublisher Luna Press Publishing

We are used to thinking of critical discourse on Shakespeare as occurring in the realm of language. But music has interpretive powers of its own. In this volume we see how the powerful dramatic intelligences of four exceedingly gifted composers -...