Literary Studies: from c 1900

In this definitive work, Donald Fowler Brown corrects many previous misconceptions about the works of Emilia Pardo Bazan (1851-1921), and offers a ...

Richard Wright was the grandson of slaves, Richard Rodriguez the son of immigrants. One black, the other brown, each author prominently displays hi...

While scholars have chronicled Czes?aw Mi?oszs engagement with religious belief, no previous book-length treatment has focused on his struggles wit...

The most comprehensive account of Georges Simenon's life and work in either English or French--from his youth and adolescence in Belgium, through h...

Lois McMaster Bujold has won a shelf full of awards--Hugos, Nebulas, and others--for both her science fiction and fantasy writing. She is one of...

Focusing on literary and popular poets, as well as work by women, African Americans, and soldiers, this book considers how writers used poetry to a...

The new essays in this collection, on such diverse writers as Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Maurine Dallas Wat...

In Film and Literary Modernism, the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts are explored by an international group of scholars...

The Making of the Modern Artist: Stephen Dedalus and Will Brangwen examines two fictional artists by James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence in A Portrait o...

Carlos Fuentes (19282012) was the most prominent novelist in contemporary Mexico and, until his recent death, one of the leading voices in Latin Am...

Terry Pratchett's writing celebrates the possibilities opened up by inventiveness and imagination. It constructs an ethical stance that values i...

Attitudes towards, and strategies for treating, those who suffer from abnormal mental states have evolved considerably over the centuries, and thes...

Ruth Pitter (18971992) may not be widely known, but her credentials as a poet are extensive; in England from the mid-1930s to the mid-1970s she mai...

New creative forms of life writing have emerged over the past four decades. Following in the footsteps of the New Biographers, who more than half...

Who was John Updike? Fifty-three commentators have much to tell us. They reveal Updike through anecdote, observation, and insight. Their memories r...

Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa observes and examines several issues that are central to the South Afr...

The animal stories produced around the turn of the 20th century have maintained a remarkable hold on the imagination of children worldwide. This...

I agree with that.... The poetry in the country has become sort of a company affair where support for the arts has just about ruined the arts and t...

In early twentieth-century U.S. culture, sex sold. While known mainly for its social reforms, the Progressive Era was also obsessed with prostitut...

From his first appearance in 1912, Tarzan became a multimedia franchise whose cultural influence extended well beyond mere entertainment. The or...

In modern culture, the essay is often considered an old-fashioned, unoriginal form of literary styling. The word essay brings to mind the uninspire...

This volume brings together a broad range of key writings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, among the most significant cultural ...