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Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction: From Atwood to Morrison
by Sharon Rose Wilson  Publisher Comments Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction explores contemporary feminist, postmodernist, and postcolonial women writers’ use and revisions of fairy tales and myths. With close readings of works ranging from Margaret Atwood to Doris...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath. by Jo Gill (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by Jo Gill Publisher Comments Sylvia Plath is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture. Her work has constantly remained in print in the UK and US (and in numerous translated editions) since the appearance of her first...
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Tigerheart
by Peter David Synopsis When sudden tragedy strikes his family, young Paul Dear embarks on a great adventure into the magical Anyplace to seek the greatest hero of his time: the Boy of Legend, in this continuation of the Peter Pan story....
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Ben Jonson, Volpone and the Gunpowder Plot. by Richard Dutton
by Richard Dutton Publisher Comments Ben Jonson's Volpone is the most widely taught and commonly performed English Renaissance play outside of Shakespeare. However, the dramatic circumstances of its writing are little known. Jonson wrote the play very shortly after the Gunpowder Plot in...
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Hardy the Physician
by Tony Fincham Publisher Comments Was Thomas Hardy clinically depressed or just syphilitic? Was Egdon Heath imbued with melancholic vapours? And does this explain why many of his characters suffered from depression, took their own lives or developed homicidal tendencies? This book by a...
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Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance (Signs of Race)
by Paul Outka Publisher Comments Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance examines a neglected but centrally important issue in critical race studies and ecocriticism: how natural experience became racialized in America from the antebellum period through the...
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Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession
by Jacques Khalip Publisher Comments Romanticism is often synonymous with models of identity and action that privilege individual empowerment and emotional autonomy. In the last two decades, these models have been the focus of critiques of Romanticism's purported self-absorption and...
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Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism
by Robert S. Levine Publisher Comments American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British...
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The Linden Tree
by Ellie Mathews Synopsis When eleven-year-old Katy Sue loses her mother to meningitis, she begins to contemplate the shape of her family and their farm through drawing, a process that allows her to accept life without her mother and to find her own role....
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The Fringes of Belief: English Literature, Ancient Heresy, and the Politics of Freethinking, 1660-1760
by Sarah Ellenzweig Publisher Comments The Fringes of Belief is the first literary study of freethinking and religious skepticism in the English Enlightenment. Ellenzweig aims to redress this scholarly lacuna, arguing that a literature of English freethinking has been overlooked because it...
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Letters Between Forster and Isherwood on Homosexuality and Literature
by Richard E. Zeikowitz Publisher Comments The correspondence between E. M. Forster and Christopher Isherwood is a fascinating record of the professional and personal lives of two major British writers from the 1930s to the 1960s. The letters of the 1930s reveal how Forster and Isherwood each...
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Les MIS'Rables
by Victor Hugo Synopsis Hugos epic follows Jean Valjean, an honest peasant turned hardened criminal through harsh circumstances, who reforms but is pursued relentlessly by a police inspector. Famous chapters include Valjeans flight through the Paris sewers....
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Travel and Experience in Early Modern English Literature
by Melanie Ord Publisher Comments This study considers how a range of prose texts register, and help to shape, the early modern cultural debate between theoretical and experiential forms of knowledge as centered on the subject of travel....
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The Complete Works of Shakespeare
by David Bevington Publisher Comments A balanced editorial approach, a highly respected editor, and proven apparatus combine to make Bevington's the most reader-friendly introduction to Shakespeare available. The Sixth Edition of this comprehensive anthology addresses the two key issues...
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Correspondence (French List)
by Michel Leiris Publisher Comments In the autumn of 1924, two young men met in Paris for the first time. Georges Bataille was just 27 and had recently started working at the Bibliothèque nationale. Michel Leiris, 23, was beginning his studies in ethnology. They discussed the...
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Hellenic Studies #15: The Culture of Kitharoidia
by Timothy Power Publisher Comments Kitharoidia was arguably the most popular, most geographically widespread, and longest-running performance genre in antiquity. From the archaic period to the late Roman imperial era, citharodesenjoyed star status, playing their songs to vast crowds at...
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The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Ralph Waldo Emerson Publisher Comments This concise volume collects the core writings that have made Ralph Waldo Emerson into a key source of insight for spiritual seekers of every faithwith an introduction by the bestselling philosopher Jacob Needleman. Here is the essential collection of...
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The Wisdom of Harry Potter: What Our Favorite Hero Teaches Us about Moral Choices
by Edmund M. Kern Synopsis The author outlines the central morals of each book, explains the Stoic principles found in the stories, considers the common critiques of the books, discusses Rowlings skillful blend of history, legend, and myth, and provides important questions for...
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A Necessary Luxury: Tea in Victorian England
by Julie E. Fromer Publisher Comments Tea drinking in Victorian England was a pervasive activity that, when seen through the lens of a century’s perspective, presents a unique overview of Victorian culture. Tea was a necessity and a luxury; it was seen as masculine as well as feminine;...
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Addictionary: Words to Live by
by Jim Banister Publisher Comments We all invent words and coin phrases; it’s how language evolves. Taken from the popular website by the same name, Addictionary: Brave New Werds collects the best of these neologisms—“werds”—into this handy volume, organized...
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