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John Clare
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The long-awaited literary biography of the supreme "poets' poet"
John Clare (1793-1864) is the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self, but until now...
Bookends
Collected Intros and Outros
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon—“one of contemporary literature’s most gifted prose stylists” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).
In Bookends,...
Raymond Chandler
A Mysterious Something in the Light: A Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
What we know of Raymond Chandler is shrouded in secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his magisterial novel The Long Goodbye. Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, literary gumshoe Tom Williams casts light on this most...
by G. Thomas Tanselle
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Textual criticism—the traditional term for the task of evaluating the authority of the words and punctuation of a text—is often considered an undertaking preliminary to literary criticism: many people believe that the job of textual critics is to provide reliable texts for literary critics to...
Art Matters
Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists, including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cézanne, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Anton...
The Interrogation
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
From the original Atheneum edition jacket, 1964.
"J.M.G. Le Clézio, revelation of the literary year" ran the headline of the Paris Express after last year's prizes had been awarded. The Goncourt jury was locked five to five until its president used his double vote to give the prize to the...
Brian Friel
A Literary Companion
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Surveying the life, work and accolades of Irish playwright Brian Friel, this literary companion investigates his personal and professional relationships and his literary topics and themes, such as belonging, violence, patriarchy and hypocrisy. Character summaries describe his most significant figures,...
Out of Essex
Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Beyond the brash modern stereotypes of Essex there exists a landscape that has inspired some of England's finest writing. This book tracks the paths of those literary figures who have ventured into the wilder parts of Essex. Some are illustrious names: Shakespeare, Defoe, John Clare, Joseph Conrad, H....
The Akron Offering
A Ladies' Literary Magazine, 1849–1850
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
"I am not ambitious, I seek only to please for the present moment, leaving the glory of posthumous fame, to the thousand little celebrities of the day," writes Lizzie, one of the regular contributors to The Akron Offering, a literary magazine of mid-nineteenth century Northeast Ohio. "I...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Blake Allmendinger's A History of California Literature surveys the paradoxical image of the Golden State as a site of dreams and disenchantment, formidable beginnings and ruinous ends. This history encompasses the prismatic nature of California by exploring a variety of historical periods, literary...
Writing Visions of Hope
Teaching TwentiethCentury American Literature and Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This ninechapter book narrates a writingcentered approach to the teaching of literature and literary research. As the title suggests, the book also embraces a thematic approach to reading and writing about twentiethcentury American literature, focusing on the grounds for hope in an age of despair....
The Life of George Eliot
A Critical Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. This new assessment of her life and work combines recent biographical research with penetrating literary criticism, resulting in revealing new interpretations of her literary work.
A fresh look...
by Andrew Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2006
From Ulysses to Finnegans Wake, James Joyce’s writings rank among the most intimidating works of literature. Unfortunately, many of the books that purport to explain Joyce are equally difficult. The Critical Lives series comes to the rescue with this concise yet deep examination of Joyce’s life...
Patrick Kavanagh, A Biography
The Acclaimed Biography of One of the Foremost Irish Poets of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
Antoinette Quinn's acclaimed biography of Patrick Kavanagh, the most important Irish poet between the death of W.B. Yeats and the rise of Seamus Heaney, tells the triumphant story of his journey from homespun balladry through early journal and poetry publications to his eventual coronation as one...