This book begins with a background on expository books about melancholy in the Renaissance with chapters on the literary uses of melancholy, Marston and melancholy, Melancholy and …
Enigmatic, intelligent, and fiercely independent, Emily Bronte refuses to bow to the conventions of her day. She is distrustful of marriage, prefers freedom above all else, and …
Declan Kiberd, a professor of Anglo-Irish literature at the University College Dublin, offers an audacious new take on Joyce's classic novel. Ulysses, he argues, is a work written …
The Imaginary West, the Real West, the New West, and the Old West converge in this celebration of that fascinating landscape. Selected from over 100 periodicals, 16 contemporary …
Obsessively pursuing a bizarre underground life of darkness and spying, Simon sees innocent Josh as a threat to the labyrinth of tunnels he has built unde his sister Audrey's …
Drawn from archival material and interviews with childhood friends, fellow undergraduates, poets, and critics, a compelling portrait of one of the greatest English poets of the …
In this powerful memoir, a woman learns to value herself as a whole person rather than as a sexual object. Sue William Silverman tells of her roller-coaster life of sex and …
Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River, through the raucous glamour of prewar Shanghai and the bohemian splendor of 1920s Paris, and back to a China teetering on the brink of …
Here, in his own translations and in original English versions of his own, Professor Praz has gathered many important essays central to his life s work, in a continuous study of …
Here is the novel that admirers of Charles Baxter's earlier work, the luminous novel First Light and his many award-winning stories, have been waiting for. Calling on his gift for …
