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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 224 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings such as A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his Journal and later writings. It also serves as a biographical guide, offering insights...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 236 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This collection of essays explores key dimensions of Faulkner's widespread cultural import. Drawing on a wide range of cultural theory, ten major Faulkner scholars examine closely the enduring whole of Faulkner's oeuvre in clearly written and intellectually provocative essays. Bringing into focus the broader cultural contexts that give his work its resonance, the collection will be particularly useful for the student seeking a critical introduction...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
xx, 292 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Cambridge companion to D. H. Lawrence contains fourteen chapters by leading international scholars. They offer a series of new perspectives on one of the most important and controversial writers of the twentieth century. These specially-commissioned essays offer diverse and stimulating readings of Lawrence's major novels, short stories, poetry and plays, and place Lawrence's writing in a variety of literary, cultural, and political contexts, such...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
xxii, 281 p. : 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
This collection of essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Robert Frost's poetry and life. Frost remains one of the most memorable and beguiling of modern poets. Writing in the tradition of Virgil, Milton, and Wordsworth, he transformed pastoral and georgic poetry both in subject matter and form. Mastering the rhythms of ordinary speech, Frost made country life the point from which to view the world and the complexities of human...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xvi, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Essays by leading scholars explore the lives and tragic early deaths of the three Brontë sisters. They set Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights in the context of the other prose and poetry of the sisters, and trace the reputation of the Brontës through history. A detailed chronology and guides to further reading are included.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xxv, 293 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This book offers a state of the subject survey of English language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling and Philip Pullman, it illuminates acknowledged classics...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 248 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first century. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evolving category of gay and lesbian authorship, and incorporates current thinking in U.S.-based LGBTQ studies as well as critical practices within the field of American literary studies. This Companion also addresses the ways in which queerness pervades...
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