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The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 26.00The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allen Poe consists of 14 essays by leading international scholars. It examines all of Poe's major writings, and places his work in a variety of literary, cultural and political contexts. It features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading. more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 21.00This introduction sets out the key themes, contexts, and critical reception of Melvilles entire oeuvre. more...
The Road to Monticello
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 18.99Book I: The Education of Thomas Jefferson. 1. Fire!. 2. A Boy and His Books. 3. A Correct, Classical Scholar. 4. William and Mary. 5. The Williamsburg Circle. 6. The Limits of English Law. 7. A Shelf of Notebooks. 8. Becoming a Burgess. Book II: Family and Nation. 9. Domestic Life and Literary Pursuits. 10. Rude Bard of the North. 11. A Summary View... more...
Edgar Allan Poe
Reaktion Books 2009; US$ 20.95The life of Edgar Allan Poe (1809?49) is the quintessential writer?s biography?great works arising from a life of despair, poverty, alcoholism, and a mysterious solitary death. It may seem like a cliché now, but it was Poe who helped shape this idea in th more...
Jefferson in His Own Time
University of Iowa Press 2012; US$ 32.50In this volume, Kevin J. Hayes collects thirty accounts of Thomas Jefferson written by his granddaughters, visiting dignitaries, fellow politicians, and others who knew him as a family man, public servant, intellectual, and institution builder. The letters and reminiscences of those who knew Jefferson personally reveal him to be a warm, funny man,... more...
Edgar Allan Poe in Context
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00These accessible essays provide the most detailed picture of the historical, cultural and literary contexts surrounding Poe's life and times. more...
Ben Franklin
Infobase Publishing 2008; US$ 54.00Each title features: - An in-depth critical portrait of an essential writer presented in a historical context - A useful chronology - An introduction by Harold Bloom. more...
Franklin in His Own Time
University of Iowa Press 2011; US$ 27.95In his time Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was the most famous American in the world. Even those personally unacquainted with the man knew him as the author of Poor Richard’s Almanack , as a pioneer in the study of electricity and a major figure in the American Enlightenment, as the creator of such life-changing innovations as the... more...
Poe and the Printed Word
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 27.00Kevin Hayes reappraises Edgar Allan Poe's work in the context of nineteenth-century print culture. Beginning with Poe's early exposure to the printed word, and ending with the ambitious magazine and book projects of his final years, this study is part biography, part literary history and part history of the book. more...
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