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Tinkers
10th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Special edition of Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel—featuring a new foreword by Marilynne Robinson and book club extras inside
In this deluxe tenth anniversary edition, Marilynne Robinson introduces the beautiful novel Tinkers, which begins with an old man who lies dying....
The White Mr. Longfellow
From 'Literary Friends and Acquaintances'
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...
by Michael Ferber
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
This is an expansion of the first dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than on 'universal' psychological archetypes or myths. It explains and illustrates the literary symbols that we frequently encounter (such as swan, rose, moon, gold) and gives thousands of cross-references and...
The Invention of English Criticism
1650–1760
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Early literary criticism was undisciplined. Unlike the staid essays and monographs of later academic scholarship, English criticism first appeared in the contentious world of the London theater: dramatists and other poets argued about their craft in contending prefaces and dedications, and their disputes...
Adaptations of Laurence Sterne's Fiction
Sterneana, 1760–1840
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Exploring how readers received and responded to literary works in the long eighteenth century, M-C. Newbould focuses on the role played by Laurence Sterne’s fiction and its adaptations. Literary adaptation flourished throughout the eighteenth century, encouraging an interactive relationship between...
by Brian Chalk
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In spite of the ephemeral nature of performed drama, playwrights such as Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Fletcher, and Shakespeare were deeply interested in the endurance of their theatrical work and in their own literary immortality. This book re-evaluates the relationship between these early modern dramatists...
My Mark Twain
From 'Literary Friends and Acquaintances'
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
The public face of Washington-the gridiron of L'Enfant's avenues, the buttoned-down demeanor Sloan Wilson's archetypal "Man in the Grey Flannel Suit," the monumental buildings of the Triangle-rarely gives up the secrets of this city's rich life. But, beneath the surface there are countless...
Fantasy and Mimesis (Routledge Revivals)
Responses to Reality in Western Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Since Plato and Aristotle’s declaration of the essence of literature as imitation, western narrative has been traditionally discussed in mimetic terms. Marginalized fantasy- the deliberate from reality – has become the hidden face of fiction, identified by most critics as a minor genre. First...
Mick Imlah
Selected Prose
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
As well as a highly respected poet and editor, Mick Imlah (1956–2009) was one of the finest literary critics of his generation. He spent most of his twenty-five-year career working for the Times Literary Supplement, reinterpreting familiar writers from Tennyson and Trollope to Larkin and Muldoon,...
Was Huck Black?
Mark Twain and African-American Voices
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 1994
Published in 1884, Huck Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did Huckleberry Finn come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices,...
Within the Circle
An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1994
Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into contemporary debates of poststructuralist and black...
Inter-American Literary History
Six Critical Periods
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Inter-American literary study is an exciting and fast-growing area of comparative scholarship. The Americas are tied together by a common historical heritage and by a history of social, political, economic, and cultural interaction.
As a contribution to this field, this book brings together...
by David Grant
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Appalled and paralyzed. Abandoned and betrayed. Cowed and bowed. Thus did Frederick Douglass describe the North in the wake of the compromise measures of 1850 that seemed to enshrine concessions to slavery permanently into the American political system. This study discovers in a feature of political...