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Through the Russian Prism: Essays on Literature and Culture
by Joseph Frank
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Joseph Frank's continuing biography of Dostoevsky is by now recognized as one of the major achievements of this century in this form, and perhaps the best work on the author in any language. During the course of this long-range effort, Frank has also... ( read more)
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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
by Phyllis Rose
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In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses as examples the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor.... ( read more)
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American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism, 1885-1917
by Robert M Crunden
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In American Salons, Robert Crunden provides a sweeping account of the American encounter with European Modernism up to the American entry into World War I. Crunden begins with deft portraits of the figures who were central to the birth of Modernism... ( read more)
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Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals
by David Laskin
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Combining literary biography with astute reporting and moral insight, David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art affected relationships among the legendary group of New York intellectuals who were the Partisan Review writers. It is the women who steal... ( read more)
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Manifestoes of Surrealism
by Andre Breton
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Presents the essential ideas of the founder of French surrealism... ( read more)
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Court and Culture Het Word Van Eer: Literatur Aan Het Hollandse Hof Omstreeks 1400
by Frits P Van Oostrom
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"While being compared favorably to Johan Huizinga's "Waning of the Middle Ages, this is in fact a livelier, more convincing analysis of the late fourteenth century."--Johan P. Snapper, University of California... ( read more)
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist -- the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
by Daniel Pool
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For every frustrated reader of the great nineteenth-century English novels of Austen, Trollope, Dickens, or the Brontës who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell "Tally Ho!" at a fox hunt, or how one landed in "debtor's prison,... ( read more)
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Them: A Memoir of Parents
by Francine du Plessix Gray
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"A rich pastry of a book, stuffed with information on the immigrant experience, parent-child relations, social climbing, the fashion, retailing, and publishing industries, and the art world." Cleveland Plain... ( read more)
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History of 20th Century Literature
by Simon Beesley
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Poets representing war's anguish, modernists transforming the novel, Beats capturing the rhythm of the times: the 20th century witnessed some of the most diverse and experimental writing since the birth of literature. Survey this vast and varied... ( read more)
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Structure and Society in Literary History: Studies in the History and Theory of Historical Criticism
by Robert Weimann
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In "Structure and Society in Literary History" Robert Weimann, one of Germany's leading literary theoreticians, raises important questions about the social function of literature and sketches the outlines of a new historical criticism. <P>Weinmann... ( read more)
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A Lifetime Burning Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin
by Alfred Kazin
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Alfred Kazin, one of our most distinguished critics culls half a century from his journals. Russell Baker describes Kazin's work best: "A lovely book about 20th-century life lived gracefully on the New York literary battleground, and about the universal... ( read more)
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Reading for Realism: The History of A U.N. Literary Institution, 1850-1910 (New Americanists)
by Nancy Glazener
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""Reading for Realism" is one of the very best books I've seen on American literary history, cultural history, and literary theory. It is a welcome and important contribution to the ongoing socio-historical reinvestigation of American literary canons and... ( read more)
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Genres of Modernity: Contemporary Indian Novels in English.
by Dirk Wiemann
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Genres of Modernity maps the conjunctures of critical theory and literary production in contemporary India. The volume situates a sample of representative novels in the discursive environment of the ongoing critical debate on modernity in India, and... ( read more)
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A Reader's Guide to Writers' London
by Ian Cunningham
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London has stimulated and fascinated writers from Chaucer, Dickens and De Quincey, to Orton, Orwell and more recently, Peter Ackroyd. Both a bedside companion and an imaginative travel guide, it leads you through the literary history of each district... ( read more)
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Famous Irish Writers
by Martin Wallace
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Exploring the lives and works of more than 80 Irish writers—including playwrights, novelists, short story writers, poets, essayists, historians, humorists, and philosophers—this book examines Irish writing within the context of... ( read more)
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The Ordeal of the African Writer
by Charles R. Larson
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This book demonstrates how only a small number of African writers--like Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Nuruddin Farah, and Wole Soyinka--have become known outside of their own continent. It also details the enormous obstacles they face within Africa to get... ( read more)
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An Orderly Life (Pioneers of Modern U.S. Hispanic Literature)
by Jose Yglesias
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Rafe Sabas is the ideal corporate man. He is on a first name basis with the president of his company and likes to think about a deal while talking about something else. "I am not good at thinking alone," he quips, "corporate life ruins you for that... ( read more)
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An American Procession
by Alfred Kazin
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In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning in the 1830s when Ralph Waldo Emerson founded a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending on... ( read more)
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Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York (New York Classics)
by Edmund Wilson
Book News Annotation
Reprint of Wilson's 1971 collection originally published by Farrar,
Straus, and Giroux. Contains a new foreword by Richard Costa
(English, Texas A&M).
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... ( read more)
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American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures
by Joanna Brooks
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-247) and index.... ( read more)
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