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  • The Selected Letters of W.E. Henley

    by Damian Atkinson ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    The text of the book consists of some 150 letters (out of a corpus of 2,500) written by the late nineteenth-century poet, critic, editor and journalist W.E. Henley, to various figures of the period, e.g. R.L. Stevenson, H. G. Wells, J.M. Barrie, William Archer, Rodin, Wilde, Kipling, Arthur Morrison, Alice Meynell, and Edmund Gosse. Letters are also included to other figures within Henley’s ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • The Art of Intimacy

    The Space Between

    by Stacey D'Erasmo ...
    Series series Art of...
    The first work of nonfiction by Stacey D'Erasmo, author of the New York Times Notable Books Tea and The Sky Below"What is the nature of intimacy, of what happens in the space between us? And how do we, as writers, catch or reflect it on the page?" Stacey D'Erasmo's insightful and illuminating study examines the craft and the contradictions of creating relationships not only between two lovers but ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Bronte

    by Barbara A. Suess ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    This new essay collection brings together some of the top Brontë scholars working today, as well as new critical voices, to examine the many layers of Anne Brontë's fiction and other writings and to restore Brontë to her rightful place in literary history. Until very recently, Brontë's literary fate has been to live in the critical shadow of her older sisters, Charlotte and Emily, in spite of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Fatherhood, Authority, and British Reading Culture, 1831-1907

    by Melissa Shields Jenkins ...
    During a period when the idea of fatherhood was in flux and individual fathers sought to regain a cohesive collective identity, debates related to a father’s authority were negotiated and resolved through competing documents. Melissa Shields Jenkins analyzes the evolution of patriarchal authority in nineteenth-century culture, drawing from extra-literary and non-narrative source material as well ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Organist in Victorian Literature

    by Iain Quinn ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The book examines the perception of the organist as the most influential musical figure in Victorian society through the writings of Thomas Hardy and Robert Browning. This will be the first book in the burgeoning area of research into the relationship of music and literature that examines the societal perceptions of a figure central to civic life in Victorian England.This book is deliberately ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England

    by Meg Twycross, Sarah Carpenter ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    Drawing on broad research, this study explores the different social and theatrical masking activities in England during the Middle Ages and the early 16th century. The authors present a coherent explanation of the many functions of masking, emphasizing the important links among festive practice, specialized ceremonial, and drama. They elucidate the intellectual, moral and social contexts for ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature

    Edited by Professor Joseph Tabbi ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    Winner of the 2017 N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic LiteratureA CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2018The digital age has had a profound impact on literary culture, with new technologies opening up opportunities for new forms of literary art from hyperfiction to multi-media poetry and narrative-driven games. Bringing together leading scholars and artists from across the world, ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching Cervantes's Don Quixote

    Edited by James A. Parr, Lisa Vollendorf ...
    Series Book 134 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Cervantes'sDon Quixote highlights dramatic changes in pedagogy and scholarship in the last thirty years: today, critics and teachers acknowledge that subject position, cultural identity, and political motivations afford multiple perspectives on the novel, and they examine both literary and sociohistorical contextualization with fresh eyes.Part 1, ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts

    Crossing the Strait

    by Debra Faszer-McMahon, Victoria L. Ketz ...
    Series series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
    Around the turn of 21st Century, Spain welcomed more than six million foreigners, many of them from various parts of the African continent. How African immigrants represent themselves and are represented in contemporary Spanish texts is the subject of this interdisciplinary collection. Analyzing blogs, films, translations, and literary works by contemporary authors including Donato Ndongo ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Mobility and Modernity

    Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination

    by Robert D. Aguirre ...
    Mobility and Modernity: Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination rewrites the history of the Panama Canal, assessing for the first time the literary culture of the preceding decades. In this period, U.S. and British writers and visual artists developed sophisticated languages of mobility, time, and speed to cast the isthmus as an in-between place, a point of connection to more ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Court Trials in Mark Twain and other Essays

    by D.M. MacKeithan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The major section of this volume, dealing with court trials in Mark Twain, is here published for the first time with the of the discussion of the trial of Silas Phelps. The exception account of this trial and the essay entitled "The Source of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, Detective" were originally published to gether as "Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, Detective" in Studia Neophilologica in 1953 (XXV, 161 ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Uses and Abuses of Moses

    Literary Representations since the Enlightenment

    by Theodore Ziolkowski ...
    In Uses and Abuses of Moses, Theodore Ziolkowski surveys the major literary treatments of the biblical figure of Moses since the Enlightenment. Beginning with the influential treatments by Schiller and Goethe, for whom Moses was, respectively, a member of a mystery cult and a violent murderer, Ziolkowski examines an impressive array of dramas, poems, operas, novels, and films to show the many ways ... Read more

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