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Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus
A Routledge Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
A highly original and influential work of modern British literature, Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus combines a fantastically creative plot with a strong political undertone. The result is an emotive and provocative novel, which has attracted much critical attention from a range of perspectives...
Figures of Catastrophe
The Condition of Culture Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A bold new vision of the modern English novel
The leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the fiction of the past century, identifying a central new genre: the condition of culture novel. Reading across and against the grain of received patterns of literary association,...
THE WRITER AND REALITY
Jane Austen and Her World
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
One hundred and ninety nine years ago, in an English country churchyard, a lady was laid to rest who enraptures the hearts of millions around the world today. She was only forty one years old, and had never married, though her thoughts were all of girls in love with love and getting wed; and from...
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
A Routledge Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
On publication Arundhati Roy's first novel The God of Small Things (1997) rapidly became an international bestseller, winning the Booker Prize and creating a new space for Indian literature and culture within the arts, even as it courted controversy and divided critical opinion.
This guide...
Misfit Forms
Paths Not Taken by the British Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
The complicated junctions negotiated by the novel during the eighteenth century reveal not only achievements but also exclusions. Misfit Forms offers a speculative reconstruction of roads less traveled. What if typographical emphasis and its associated transmission of sensuality and feeling had not...
Good Form
The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
What do we mean when we say that a novel's conclusion "feels right"? How did feeling, form, and the sense of right and wrong get mixed up, during the nineteenth century, in the experience of reading a novel? Good Form argues that Victorian readers associated the feeling of narrative form—of...
The Book Unbound
Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
In The Book Unbound, scholars and editors examine how best to use new technological tools and new methodologies with artefacts of medieval literature and culture. Taking into consideration English, French, Anglo-Norman, and Latin texts from several periods, the contributors examine and re-evaluate...
The Prison of Love
Romance, Translation, and the Book in the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The Spanish romance Cárcel de amor blossomed into a transnational and multilingual phenomenon that captivated audiences throughout Europe at a time when literacy was expanding and print production was changing the nature of reading, writing, and of literature itself.
In The Prison of Love,...
by Mr. Adam Kirsch
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America’s preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era. His was an age when literary criticism and ideas seemed to matter profoundly in the intellectual life of the country. In this eloquent book, Adam Kirsch...
The Politics of the Book
A Study on the Materiality of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2019
It is impossible to separate the content of a book from its form. In this study, Filipe Carreira da Silva and Mónica Brito Vieira expand our understanding of the history of social and political scholarship by examining how the entirety of a book mediates and constitutes meaning in ways that affect...
by Nicolas Tredell
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
David Copperfield and Great Expectations are among Charles Dickens's most famous novels. In both books, the hero tells the vivid and absorbing tale of his education by life, presents a rich range of characters and scenes, and tackles profound moral, social and psychological themes.
Part I of...
by Daily Books
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions by Russell Brand | Conversation Starters
In “Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions”, readers are introduced to the author’s personal struggles with addictions and recovery. The novel draws on the author’s unique sense of humor, combining honesty...
Study Guide for Book Clubs: Circe
Study Guides for Book Clubs, #37
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
An essential tool for all reading groups – a detailed guide to the bestselling novel, Circe.
A comprehensive guide to Madeline Miller's remarkable novel, Circe, this discussion aid includes a wealth of information and resources: twenty-eight thought-provoking discussion questions; useful...
Study Guide for Book Clubs: Where the Crawdads Sing
Study Guides for Book Clubs, #39
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2019
An essential tool for all reading groups, this guide provides a detailed analysis of Delia Owens's bestselling novel, Where the Crawdads Sing. Covering a wealth of information it includes thirty thought-provoking discussion questions; a detailed plot summary; useful literary context; an author biography;...