Literary studies: general Books

Introduction 'A Kind of a Sort of a Gentleman': The Gentleman's Progress from Sir Charles Grandison to John Halifax The Literary Evolution of the Lower Middle Class: The Natural History of the Gent to Little Dorrit Voices from the Margins: Dickens,...

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: 'Mother Country' PART I: MAPPING SOME TERRITORY Colouring the English; S.Thomas A Literature of Belonging: Rewriting the Domestic Novel; A.Blake Learning Me Your Language: England in the Postcolonial...

Introduction; J.B.Winston After Zigzagging; L.Donh Rap Music; N.Q.Chanh Playing with Identities: Everyday Pleasures in Colonial Vietnam; E.J.Peters Moving Along the Edge of Summer; P.H.Thu Cultural Encounters in French Colonial Literature; P.Laude After...

In 13 studies of representations of rape in medieval and early modern literature by such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Spenser, this innovative book argues that some form of sexual violence against women has always served as a foundation of...

This collection takes the view that authors like Chaucer and Christine de Pizan, often presented as unique, iconic promoters of a debate thought to have occurred primarily in England and France in the late medieval years, should in reality be considered...

This study innovatively explores how Malory's Morte Darthur responds to available literary vernacular Arthurian traditions-the French defined as theoretical in impulse, the English as performative and experimental. Negotiating these influences, Malory...

This distinguished anthology presents for the first time in English travel essays by Arabic writers who have visited America in the second half of the century. The view of America which emerges from these accounts is at once fascinating and illuminating,...

Not In Sisterhood investigates an important transitional moment in the history of U.S. women's writing : the uneasy shift from the 19th-century model of the "lady author" to some new but undefined alternative. The careers of Edith Wharton and Willa...

Introduction Authorship, the Forbidden Country Women Writing Exile 'Returning from the Ghost Place': Recomposing History 'The War that has gone into us': Troubles from the North Travelling Back Home: The Blockbusters Patricia Scanlan and Maeve Binchy...

This study uncovers a vital thematic unity within Blake's early work: his far-reaching use of humor. Although often dismissed as a product of his eccentricity, the comic was an essential key to Blake's concept of Vision. With special reference to...

This is a collection of essays that addresses the absence of real confrontation with Jean-Paul Sartre's work by shedding light on Sartre's contribution to critical trends that have been developing over the last twenty years, including feminism, gender...

The first book-length critical analysis of its kind, this work is an engaging study of Wharton's travel writing as the embodiment of her connoisseurship.

Eating and drinking—vital to all human beings—were of central importance to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Culinary Shakespeare, the first collection devoted solely to the study of food and drink in Shakespeare’s plays, reframes...

Illustrates how the discovery of electromagnetism in 1820 not only led to technological inventions, such as the dynamo and the telegraph, but also legitimized modes of reasoning that manifested a sharper ability to perceive how metonymic relations could...

Charter schools have emerged as one of the central policy debates in U.S. education--and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute team has been a key participant in this debate since day one, both nationally and in Ohio. Despite President Obama's call for states...

The nine articles of stimulating literary criticism collected in this volume view Tolkien's work from a variety of medieval perspectives: the device of entrelacement employed in Arthurian romances is used to throw light on the narrative design of The...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,3, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Peter Handke gilt als einer der populärsten Autoren des letzten Jahrhunderts, gleichzeitig...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Ältere Deutsche Literatur, Mediävistik, Note: 1,0, Universität zu Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der Arbeit werden mittelalterliche Texte untersucht, die den gehorsamen und den helfenden...

Considerable interest in faery tradition has grown up in recent years and not least in the story of Melusine of Lusignan, the subject of a prose romance by Jean d'Arras at the end of the 14th century, swiftly followed by one in verse by Couldrette. This...

Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world's greatest orators. This particular passage is from the second book of Cicero's Speeches against...