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The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature
The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature offers students a literary history of American writing in English between 1492 and 1820, as... Les mer
The Nude in French Art and Culture, 1870–1910
Dawkins examines the forces that made the nude a contentious image in the early Third Republic. Analyzing the evolving relationship between the... Les mer
The Syntax of Hungarian
Clearly written and comprehensive in scope, this is an essential guide to syntax in the Hungarian language. It describes the key grammatical features... Les mer
Statius’ Silvae and the Poetics of Empire
Statius’ Silvae, written late in the reign of Domitian (AD 81–96), are a new kind of poetry that confronts the challenge of imperial majesty or... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. Here fourteen world-class experts... Les mer
Romani: A Linguistic Introduction
Romani is a language of Indo-Aryan origin which is spoken in Europe by the people known as Gypsies (who usually refer to themselves as Rom). There... Les mer
Ovid’s Poetics of Illusion
Ovid’s poetry is haunted obsessively by a sense both of the living fullness of the texts and of the emptiness of these ‘insubstantial... Les mer
The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature
The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature offers students a literary history of American writing in English between 1492 and 1820, as... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. Here fourteen world-class experts... Les mer
Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West
In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the western American... Les mer
Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature
Paul Downes combines literary criticism and political history in order to explore responses to the rejection of monarchism in the American... Les mer
New Essays on Billy Budd
Billy Budd is Herman Melville’s most read work after Moby-Dick. Melville wrote the novella during the 5 years before his death, and it was... Les mer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald’s second collection of short stories, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), includes two masterpieces - ‘May Day’ and ‘The Diamond as Big... Les mer
Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace
Conventional literary history has virtually ignored the role of newspaper syndicates in publishing some of the most famous nineteenth-century... Les mer
Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics
This volume brings together major works by German thinkers, writing just prior to and after Kant, who were enormously influential in this crucial... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard
Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed on and off Broadway and in... Les mer
Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics
This volume brings together major works by German thinkers, writing just prior to and after Kant, who were enormously influential in this crucial... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard
Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed on and off Broadway and in... Les mer
Schleiermacher
This is the first English translation of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s mature ethical theory. Situated between the better-known positions of Kant and... Les mer
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio
This first edition ever published of Trimalchio, an early and complete version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby now appears... Les mer
Schleiermacher
This is the first English translation of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s mature ethical theory. Situated between the better-known positions of Kant and... Les mer
The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative
The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative is designed to help readers understand what narrative is, how it is constructed, how it acts upon us, how we... Les mer
Herder: Philosophical Writings
Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803) is one of the most important German philosophers of the eighteenth century, who had enormous influence on... Les mer
Henry James and the Father Question
The intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father, who was a philosopher and theologian, proved to be an influential resource for the... Les mer