Author : Leslie Howsam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107023734
An accessible and wide-ranging study of the history of the book within local, national and global contexts.
Author : Cyrus R. K. Patell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521514711
A portrait of the diverse literary cultures of New York from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to the present.
Author : Edward James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521016575
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Author : Leonard Cassuto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2004-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521894654
The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume establish new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Dreiser. This Companion provides fresh perspectives on the frequently read classics, Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Dreiser's representation of the city and his prose style. The volume investigates topics such as his representation of masculinity and femininity, and his treatment of ethnicity. It is the most comprehensive introduction to Dreiser's work available.
Author : Martin Priestman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494508
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form. The collection, by an international team of established specialists, offers students invaluable reference material including a chronology and guides to further reading. The volume aims to ensure that its readers will be grounded in the history of crime fiction and its critical reception.
Author : N. H. Keeble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2001-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521645225
A Companion to the writing produced by the English Revolution, with supporting chronology and guide to further reading.
Author : Joshua L. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107083958
This Companion offers a comprehensive analysis of U.S. modernism as part of a global literature. Recent writing on U.S. immigration, imperialism, and territorial expansion has generated fresh reasons to read modernist novelists, both prominent and forgotten. Written by a host of leading scholars, this Companion provides unique approaches to modernist texts.
Author : Gregory Claeys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139828428
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.
Author : Edward Copeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 1997-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521498678
A comprehensive guide to Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world and present-day criticism.
Author : Joshua Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 31,5 MB
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1108838278
This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.
