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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
American Impersonal brings together some of the most influential scholars now working in American literature to explore the impact of one of America's leading literary critics: Sharon Cameron. It engages directly with certain arguments that Cameron has articulated throughout her career, most notably...
Liberty of the Imagination
Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In Liberty of the Imagination, Edward Cahill uncovers the surprisingly powerful impact of eighteenth-century theories of the imagination—philosophical ideas about aesthetic pleasure, taste, genius, the beautiful, and the sublime—on American writing from the Revolutionary era to the early nineteenth...
A History of English Literature
Traversing the Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A History of English Literature: Traversing the Centuries provides a comprehensive outline of the course of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. In its fourteen chapters, the book covers all major literary periods with inclusive analyses of the political, social and intellectual...
The Right to Write
The Literary Politics of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
The Right to Write examines how the early American poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley gained agency within a traditionally patriarchal field of literary production. Tracing the careers of Bradstreet and Wheatley through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Engberg shows that these women...
The Inverted Gaze
Queering the French Literary Classics in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
François Cusset, author of the acclaimed book French Theory, investigates the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars in this thought-provoking and free-minded journey across six centuries of literary classics and sexual polemics.
Cusset presents the foundations...
by Dennis Low
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Dennis Low's re-evaluation of the Lake Poets as mentors begins with the controversial premise that Robert Southey was one of the nineteenth-century's greatest champions of women's writing. Together with Wordsworth and Coleridge, Low argues, Southey tried to end what he perceived to be the cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Considered by many to be the greatest writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace was at the height of his creative powers when he committed suicide in 2008. In a sweeping portrait of Wallace’s writing and thought and as a measure of his importance in literary history, The Legacy of David Foster...
Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry
Reinventing the Canon
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The canon of Russian poetry has been reshaped since the fall of the Soviet Union. A multi-authored study of changing cultural memory and identity, this revisionary work charts Russia’s shifting relationship to its own literature in the face of social upheaval.
Literary canon and national identity...
Fame and Failure 1720–1800
The Unfulfilled Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Adam Rounce presents a colourful and unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame through writers who failed to achieve the literary success they so desired. Recounting the experiences of less canonical writers, including Richard Savage, Anna Seward and Percival...
Uncivil Wars
Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national...
by Chris Baldick
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Presents a coherent and accessible historical account of the major phases of British and American Twentieth-century criticism, from 'decadent' aestheticism to feminist, decontsructonist and post-colonial theories. Special attention is given to new perspectives on Shakesperean criticism, theories of...
Thomas Churchyard
Pen, Sword, and Ego
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Soldier, courtier, author, entertainer, and amateur spy, Thomas Churchyard (c.1529-1604) saw action in most of the principal Tudor theatres of war, was a servant to five monarchs, and had a literary career spanning over half a century during which time he produced over fifty different works in a variety...
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Short reminiscence of an encounter with Bret Harte. According to Wikipedia: "William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic... In 1858, he began to work at the Ohio State Journal where he wrote poetry, short stories, and also translated pieces from...
Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont
A Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life for travelers and residents. Eighteen tours direct readers to sites that more than two hundred Tar Heel authors have explored in their fiction, poetry, plays,...