Literary Criticism : European

"Colour'd Shadows" interprets nineteenth-century British women writers' works in connection with the material contexts of writing, printing, and publishing, and the book illustrates methods of "reading" the material book for what it reveals about the meanings of the literary work that it embodies. more...

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A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens’s world.:.; Puts Dickens’s work into its literary, historical, and social contexts.; Traces the development of Dickens’s career as a journalist and novelist.; Includes original essays by leading Dickensian scholars on each of Dickens’s fifteen novels.; Explores a broad range of topics, including criticisms of his novels, the use of history and law in his fiction, language, and the effect of political and social reform.; Examines Dickens's legacy and surveys the mass of secondary materials that has been generated in response and reverence to his writing more...

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This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference.:.; Provides new perspectives on established texts.; Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions.; Pioneered by leading scholars.; Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies.; Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints. more...

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Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career.:.; Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen scholarship.; Functions both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field of Austen studies.; Engages at length with changing contexts and cultures of reception from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. more...

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The diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies is brought alive in this stimulating Companion.:.; Winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuels Book Award in 2002.; Invites readers to explore and enjoy Milton's rich and fascinating work.; Comprises 29 fresh and powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar.; Looks at literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, other relevant contemporary texts and responses to Milton over time.; Devotes a whole chapter to each major poem, and four to Paradise Lost.; Conveys the excitement of recent developments in the field. more...

Price: $151.95