Product Description: This book examines the often tragic and nearly always disabling metaphor of thetheatrum mundi, world-as-stage, as it plays itself out in the characters of Mary Shelley's novels.

All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1604 and 1605,and was originally published in the First Folio in 1623. Though originally the play was classified as one of Shakespeare's comedies, the play is now considered by some critics to be one of his problem plays, so named because they cannot be neatly classified as tragedy or comedy.

Product Description: Almost twenty-five years after the death of E_a de Queir_s, his son, Jos_ Maria D'E_a de Queirzs, discovered in 1924 an untitled and undated manuscript that contained neither revisions nor corrections. He painstakingly deciphered his father's nearly illegible script, titled the work, and published it as Alves & Co...read more

Product Description: Several essays survey the critical conversation regarding American creative non-fiction, an interesting collection of memoirs, autobiographies, travel and nature guides and essays and explore the genre's cultural and historical contexts and offer close and comparative reading of key texts in the genre, including In Cold Blood, A Moveable Feast, The Big Sea, and Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ...read more

Product Description: Much has been written about the Norse influence on British Romantic and Victorian literature, but little has been said about the corresponding American movement. This work aims at filling this surprising lacuna.

Product Description: This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores intersections between geography and American literary history, from the earliest geographic chronicles of the New World to the massive geopolitical transformation of the 1890s. Foregrounding the unsteady nature of geographical boundaries, the physical and imaginary migrations that coexisted with literary nationalisms, and changing attitudes toward geographical settings, these essays present alternatives to exceptionalist accounts of U...read more

Product Description: Essays here explore the relationship between politics and explicitly political feature films from the beginning of the movie industry to World War I, and for each decade through to the 1980's. The included filmography is particularly useful...read more

Product Description: An annotated bibliography on women who wrote fiction in the US during the period 1790-1870. The first part is an annotated list of sources that discuss women's fiction in the period and women authors born before 1840 who published before 1870...read more

At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and "schools," and important Chinese literary terms. In addition to providing authoritative information about each subject, the compilers have taken meticulous care to include detailed, up-to-date bibliographies and source information. The reader will find it a treasure-trove of historical accounts, especially when browsing through the biographies of authors.Indispensable for scholars and students of pre-modern Chinese literature, history, and thought. Part Two contains S to Xi.

Product Description: First published in 1998, this title provides for the reader of the renowned metaphysical poet and politician a valuable reference and resource volume. It is a compendium of useful information for any reader of Andrew Marvell, including crucial biographical material, historical contextualisation, and details about his life’s work...read more

Product Description: The Los Angeles Review of Books launched in April of 2011 as a humble Tumblr, with a 2600-word essay by Ben Ehrenreich entitled “The Death of the Book.” The gesture was meant to be provocative, and to ask a genuine question: Was the book dying? Was the internet killing it? Or were we simply entering a new era, a new publishing ecosystem, where different media could coexist?The LARB website currently publishes a minimum of two rigorously edited pieces a day, and we’ve cultivated a stable of regular contributors, both eminent (Jane Smiley, Mike Davis, Jonathan Lethem) and emerging (Jenny Hendrix, Colin Dickey, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah)...read more

Product Description: For some time now, incentives have been coming out of anglophone German language and literature studies that have a significant effect on the field in Germany. With the creation of Angermion, a forum has been established which brings the fruitful interaction within European German studies to light and focuses on the exciting and symbiotic German-British cultural relationships existing since the 18th century...read more

Product Description: This book presents a series of essays that examine the ideological, personal, and political difficulties faced by the group variously termed the Anglo-Irish, the Protestant Ascendancy, or the English in Ireland, a group that existed in a world of contested ideological, political, and cultural identities...read more

Product Description: In this book the author explores the radical novel in the United States which has been identified with the writings produced during the early part of the twentieth century by writers associated with socialist and communist ideologies, whose productions advocated the overthrow of the capitalist system...read more

Product Description: The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture investigates the preoccupation with idleness that haunts the British eighteenth century. Sarah Jordan argues that as Great Britain began to define itself as a nation during this period, one important quality it claimed for itself was industriousness...read more

The popular CNN talk show host looks back on the past monumental decade, offering his own unique take on politics, sports, international affairs, and the media, among other topics. 100,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Edith Wharton enjoyed a complex relationship with early modernism. Her love of French literature and her close relationship with Henry James made her open to experiment as a writer and committed to the seriousness of novel writing as an art...read more

Through analyses of The History of Miss Betsy Thoughless, The Female Quixote, Evelina, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Eyre, this genre study explores the ways in which the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British female Bildungsroman fuses female power and autonomy with a conservative reintegration with society.Although the works in question range across a century, their combination of socially conservative plots with feminist critiques of society is remarkable and rare and coincides with similar convergences of particular historical and social forces. The result, the early female Bildungsroman, embraces the Englightenment idealization of "development" as it simultaneously questions the Bildungsroman's underlying concept, individual subjectivity.Feminist critics of the past two decades have contended that the protagonists of early female Bildungsroman actually "grow down" rather than grow up. This study argues instead that these protagonists construct themselves as subjects by manipulating the signs of their objectification. By learning how the male gaze functions in their society, heroines learn to manipulate their appearance and behavior in order to gain some control over the self they project for others. The result is a model of development based on a fragmented view of the self, in which heroines learn to negotiate between their own sense of personal autonomy and society's more limited expectations.This study also briefly suggests that as later heroines, such as Maggie Tulliver and Edna Pontellier, publicly maintain the right to create their own worldview, they lose their ability to compromise and thus to survive within a hostile environment. Therefore, later novels of female development abandon the dialectic of reintegration and subversion that sustained the female Bildungsroman. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Drawn from a session sponsored by the Old English Colloquium of the University of California, Berkeley, these four papers address the need to understand scansion of Old English verse according to some established principles in order to appreciate Beowulf, the earliest masterpiece of English literature...read more

This volume explores a wide range of Victorian texts, including novels, poems, sermons, and some less easily categorized writings, in terms of their use of language and imagery suggestive of the Apocalypse. The focus is less upon the conscious or deliberate use of the Apocalypse as a source of sublime metaphors or as a guide to cultural decline than on the ways in which certain tropes recur in the writings of the period. These can be characterized in terms of oppositions that both structure apocalyptic literature and characterize much Victorian writing: human/inhuman, desert/city, veiled/revealed, time/the eternal, this world/other world. The book sets out to show that what might be called a cultural affinity exists between the writing of the Victorian era and apocalyptic literature, and to argue that such a relationship was unavoidable for a society steeped in the bible as it confronted dramatic changes in its relationships with nature, God, and time.