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To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808400899Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman...

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808400134Author Orestes A. BrownsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman...

A reference guide to American literature, with more than four hundred entires devoted to aspects of American history, literary movements, influential writers and key texts. It is suitable for students of American literature at any level, and it is also...

Joel Chandler Harris was internationally famous in his own time and has a surprisingly broad scholarly and popular following in ours. His portraits of slaves and former slaves, particularly Uncle Remus and Free Joe, poor whites, and Brer Rabbit, the...

For what scandalous reason was the original publication of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn delayed? What were the names of Samuel Clemens pets? How are his attitudes towards politics and religion revealed in his work? Find the answers to these...

Designed as an aid for librarians and teachers who are interested in exposing students to the cultures of Latino people through noteworthy books, Schon's guide will provide students in grades K-12 with an understanding of, and an appreciation for, the...

Based on the fifth edition of "The Oxford Companion to English Literature", this is a concise reference guide for the student. More than 5,000 entries illuminate fictional characters, literary movements, legends, theatres, periodicals, the plots of...

What is a ham-and-egger? What are Anglo-Saxon attitudes? Who first tried to nail jelly to the wall? The answers to these and many more questions are in this fascinating book. Here in one volume you can track down the stories behind the names and sayings...

Now in paperback, this brand new edition of A Dictionary of Euphemisms: How Not To Say What You Mean is still as lively a guide to the language of evasion, hypocrisy, prudery, and deceit as you could wish for. Packed full of the old favourites, such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842051542Format PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Geddes & GrossetPublisher The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd

Containing over 1,000 of the most troublesome literary terms encountered by students and general readers, this gem of a book gives clear and often witty explanations to terms such as hypertext, multi-accentuality, and postmodernism. It also offers...

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...

Engendering Legitimacy is a study of the intersecting of law, land, property, and gender in the prose fiction of Mary Davys, Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, and Jonathan Swift. The law of property in early modern England established relations for men and...

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...

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808404163Author Margaret FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman &...

Like Don Quixote, Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and Fielding's Tom Jones, Modern Chivalry is a tale of adventuring, episodic and exciting. Despite the author's European inspirations, it is a distinctively American book, not just because of its homespun,...

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

Like most authors, Mark Twain wrote from personal experience, but, unlike many authors, he left behind a wealth of autobiographical material recording those personal experiences. His autobiography, letters, speeches, and notebooks contain many references...

By applying several aspects of Mikhail Bahktin's discourse-utterance theory, the author examines the use of quotation in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. All ideological pronouncements made by the heroes of the book are classified into two types of...

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...

Working Through Memory studies various constructions of memory in contemporary Spanish literature, evoking different aspects of a past of repression, from both the civil war and the Franco regime. Ferrán analyzes narrative texts published between the...

A user-friendly guide to reading, writing, and theorizing autobiographical texts and practices for students, scholars, and practitioners of life narrative The boom in autobiographical narratives continues apace. It now encompasses a global spectrum of...

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...

Cultural and individual fantasies of masculinity enter troubling terrain in gothic tales of British and German Romanticism. In the interiority of dreams and visionary spaces, a male protagonist makes a fateful encounter with a supernaturalized force and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944473214Author Mark HusseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams) 454g

To explore the depth of the literary connection between William Carlos Williams and Frank O'Hara, particularly in relation to their American roots, this book examines their distinct responses to Abstract Expressionism, or the New York School artists...

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...

"The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else is. It never leaves our consciousness. In a word we are our past; we do not cling to it, it...

This is the first bibliography exclusively devoted to censorship in the Arab world. It includes items in such areas as academic freedom; book banning; book trade; copyright and intellectual property; freedom of information, communication, and expression;...

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...

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808403371Author William Gilmore SimmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532677229Author Colin N ManloveFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 227g

During the long eighteenth century, Britain won and lost an empire in North America while consolidating its hegemony on the Indian subcontinent. The idea of imperial Britain became an essential piece of national self-definition, so that to be British was...

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

Herman Melville's Mardi (1849) has stood the test of time as a superb allegorical fantasy, and as the third in a trilogy reflecting on Melville's experiences on the sea. Set on a fictional Pacific island, this adventure, love story, and exploration of...

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...