Product Description: The romance genre was a popular literary form among writers and readers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but since then it has often been dismissed as juvenile, unmodern, improper, or subversive. In this study, William J...read more

Product Description: Should women concern themselves with reading other than the Bible? Should women attempt to write at all? Did these activities violate the hierarchy of the universe and men's and women's places in it? Colonial American women relied on the same authorities and traditions as did colonial men, but they encountered special difficulties validating themselves in writing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: H. G. Wells was one of the most influential authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best remembered today as the author of classic works of science fiction, such as The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and The First Men in the Moon...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This study discloses the intellectual context and the personal pretext of Thomas Paine's assault on religion in The Age of Reason. Illustrated.

Product Description: In this study, the author asserts that the contributions of certain turn-of-the-century English novelists have been obscured by the prevailing view that the novel evolved primarily to express character. He re-evaluates their fiction in light of the tension between fictional structure and characterization...read more

Product Description: The first modem edition of Increase Mather's seventeenth-century biography of his father, Richard, and Cotton Mather's eighteenth-century biography of his father, Increase. Characteristic of New England Puritan biographies, both convey religious instruction about the conduct of one's life on earth...read more

Product Description: Book by Scheick, William J., Cox, J. Randolph

Product Description: The notion that Wells's best work includes some of his later discursive novels of ideas might seem perverse. This focuses on Wells's fiction of the 1920s and 1930s and its goal is to deepen appreciation of Wells as a literary artist...read more

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Product Description: The half-blood―half Indian, half white―is a frequent figure in the popular fiction of nineteenth-century America, for he (or sometimes she) served to symbolize many of the conflicting cultural values with which American society was then wrestling...read more

Follows the progression of Edwards' thought, studying its religious and aesthetic implications in relation to his doctrines and his quandary as to whether he was one of God's elect