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The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture investigates the preoccupation with idleness that haunts the British eighteenth century. Sarah Jordan argues that as Great Britain began to define itself as a nation...

A timeless classic.Book InformationISBN 9780810816978Author Gertrude JobesFormat HardbackPage Count 482Imprint Scarecrow PressPublisher Scarecrow PressWeight(grams) 880g

In this introduction to the life and works of John Keats, originally published in 1981, William Walsh presents a comprehensive but approachable study which illuminates first the poems, indirectly the man, and more obliquely the period. Working within a...

Science Fiction literature, also known as sci fi and sf, is one of the more recent genres, and also one of the more popular. It only truly emerged during the 20th century, and has not stopped growing in terms of authors, titles and readers. It has also...

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808401797Author Theodore WinthropFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &...

This book is about Susan Howe's poetry from the perspective of space. Howe reshapes cultural configurations of space through her drive to infiltrate interstitial areas of "third" spaces: the silences of history, the margins of the page, the placeless...

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808401988Author Henry Wadsworth LongfellowFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher...

This is the first comprehensive account of Swift's engagement with the arts in Ireland and England. It both documents and reflects upon his attitudes toward music, gardening, theatre, architecture, and painting, and suggests that, despite his often...

Huckleberry Finn, Anna Karenina, Harry Potter, Hester Prynne...these are just a handful of remarkable characters to be found in literature, but of course, the list of memorable characters is virtually endless! But why ponder which of these creations are...

Katona has compiled a complete handbook for general students and readers of literature. Developed out of a thirty-one year career of teaching Introduction to Literature to community college freshmen, this book aims not just to teach how to read...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532677229Author Colin N ManloveFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947660489Author Clyde N WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Shotwell Publishing LLCPublisher Shotwell Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 127g

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) was hailed by many in his day as America's foremost poet, outranking T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Ezra Pound. Perhaps best known for his sonnets, he startles readers into attention and response through obscurity...

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 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...

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 338Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 230mm...