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Reading Swift's Poetry
Poets are makers, etymologically speaking. In practice, they are also thieves. Over a long career, from the early 1690s to the late 1730s, Jonathan Swift thrived on a creative …
Trollope-To-Reader
"[This is] as much a book for browsing as it is for reference use [and is] a labor of love that will surely please the many admirers of Trollope." Reference Books Bulletin
Victorian Conversion Narratives and Reading Communities
Because Victorian authors rarely discuss conversion experiences separately from the modes in which they are narrated, Emily Walker Heady argues that the conversion narrative …
Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions
The fin de siècle, the period 1880-1914, long associated with decadence and with the literary movements of aestheticism and symbolism, has received renewed critical interest …
Reading the Road, from Shakespeare’s Crossways to Bunyan’s Highways
This book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture. …
Closet Writing/Gay Reading
One of the most urgent tasks for gay studies today, James Creech argues, is the retrieval of a repressed, "closeted" literary heritage. But contradictions and problems cloud even …
Reading John Keats
John Keats (1795–1821), one of the best-loved poets of the Romantic period, is ever alive to words, discovering his purposes as he reads - not only books but also the world around …
Carmina Burana
This is a translation of thirty poems from "Carmina Burana".
Reading Fiction in Antebellum America
James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. Machor takes four …
Reading Henry James
Henry James (1843-1916) has been championed as an historian of social conscience and attacked as a spokesman for social privilege. His Americanness has been questioned by nativists …
Reading Dreams
This volume contains seven essays on the representation and interpretation of medieval and Renaissance dreams. Chaucer and Shakespeare are important reference points and …
Reading Goethe
At last an engaging and highly readable guide to the works and significance of Goethe. The year 1999 saw the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's …