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Powers of Darkness
The Lost Version of Dracula
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Powers of Darkness is an incredible literary discovery: In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar à?smundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker’s world-famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna (literally, “Powers of Darkness?), this Icelandic edition included an original preface...
The Anatomy of Literary Studies (Routledge Revivals)
An Introduction to the Study of English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
First published in 1980, The Anatomy of Literary Studies provides students of English Literature with a clearer understanding of the significance and scope of the subject and a comprehensive background to its study. It gives pointers towards intellectual integrity and advice on independent study,...
by Andrew Radford
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In tracing those deliberate and accidental Romantic echoes that reverberate through the Victorian age into the beginning of the twentieth century, this collection acknowledges that the Victorians decided for themselves how to define what is 'Romantic'. The essays explore the extent to which Victorianism...
The Political Unconscious
Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Fredric Jameson, in The Political Unconscious, opposes the view that literary creation can take place in isolation from its political context. He asserts the priority of the political interpretation of literary texts, claiming it to be at the center of all reading and understanding, not just a supplement...
The Edinburgh Review in the Literary Culture of Romantic Britain
Mammoth and Megalonyx
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
From its first issue, published on the 10th October 1802, Francis Jeffrey's "Edinburgh Review" established a strong reputation and exerted a powerful influence. This is a literary study of the "Edinburgh Review" for over fifty years. It contextualizes the periodical within the culture wars of the Romantic era.
A.M. Klein The Letters
Collected Works of A.M. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
In the final volume of the Collected Works of A.M. Klein, Elizabeth Popham completes the process of restoring the public voice of one of Canada's most respected authors. A.M. Klein: The Letters is the first compilation of a significant body of Klein's correspondence. Using his communications to construct...
Charles Dickens Six Pack
Six Dickens Novels and More
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870) created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him...
Dickinson in Her Own Time
A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Even before the first books of her poems were published in the 1890s, friends, neighbors, and even apparently strangers knew Emily Dickinson was a writer of remarkable verses. Featuring both well-known documents and material printed or collected here for the first time, this book offers a broad range...
Our Emily Dickinsons
American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
For Vivian R. Pollak, Emily Dickinson's work is an extended meditation on the risks of social, psychological, and aesthetic difference that would be taken up by the generations of women poets who followed her. She situates Dickinson's originality in relation to her nineteenth-century audiences, including...
by Max Byrd
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Max Byrd’s lucidly written and compelling volume aims to provide a scholarly introduction to one of the most puzzling pieces of eighteenth-century literature, and a stimulus to critical thought and discussion. Laurence Sterne – an eccentric and largely unsuccessful clergyman - was forty-six when...
by Michael Morony
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 1991
The author traces the course of literary criticism from its foundations in classical and medieval precepts to the theorising of the present day. He explores the texts which have been milestones in the history of critical thought, placing them firmly in the context of their time.
by M. H. Abrams
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
A new collection of essays by the legendary literary scholar and critic.
In the year of his one-hundredth birthday, preeminent literary critic, scholar, and teacher M. H. Abrams brings us a collection of nine new and recent essays that challenge the reader to think about poetry in new ways....
Framed
The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Framed uses fin de siècle British crime narrative to pose a highly interesting question: why do female criminal characters tend to be alluring and appealing while fictional male criminals of the era are unsympathetic or even grotesque?
In this elegantly argued study, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller...
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm
The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors.
When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to distribute them equally all over the world—one fool...