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New Essays on Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie (1900), Theodore Dreiser’s first novel, is one of the seminal works in American literature because of Dreiser’s ground-breaking...
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New Essays on The Rise of Silas Lapham
The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) established William Dean Howells’s reputation in the annals of American literature. This collection of essays...
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The San Francisco Renaissance
The San Francisco Renaissance is the first overview of this major American literary movement. Michael Davidson recounts its emergence during the...
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Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature
In Cross Examinations of Law and Literature Brook Thomas uses legal thought and legal practice as a lens through which to read some of the important...
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Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism
Ezra Pound’s vocal support for Benito Mussolini and Italian fascism and his indictment, arrest, and imprisonment without trial have been a source...
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Penelope’s Web
Penelope’s Web should appeal to a wide spectrum of readers interested in twentieth-century modernism, women’s writing, feminist criticism,...
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Henry James
Judith Woolf’s elegantly written book introduces school and university students, as well as the interested general reader, to the major novels of...
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The Fall into Eden
In this book David Wyatt examines the mythology of California as it is reflected in the literature of the region. He argues that in the literature of...
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Poet’s Prose
Poet’s Prose is the first scholarly work devoted exclusively to American prose poetry and has been recognised as a pioneering study in contemporary...
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New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio
Sixty years after its first publication, Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio continues to stand as a classic of modernist American fiction. In...
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The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf
This book argues that the formal art of the Old English epic Beowulf is shaped and determined by the poetic language which the poet inherited from...
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New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio
Sixty years after its first publication, Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio continues to stand as a classic of modernist American fiction. In...
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The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
This book introduces students to the literature of Anglo-Saxon England, the period from 600–1066, in a collection of fifteen specially commissioned...
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Poet’s Prose
Poet’s Prose is the first scholarly work devoted exclusively to American prose poetry and has been recognised as a pioneering study in contemporary...
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Walt Whitman and the American Reader
In Walt Whitman and the American Reader, Ezra Greenspan casts Whitman as the central actor on the stage of nineteenth-century American literary...
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Grammatical Voice
Categories of the verb in natural languages include tense, aspect, modality (mood) and voice. Among these, voice, in its rich and diverse...
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Modern Irish
Micheal O Siadhail considers modern Irish dialects against the background of their common grammar, providing a comprehensive overview for Celticists...
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Conditions on Phonological Government
This is the first extended study written within the framework of Government Phonology. Following the presentation of the main aspects of this theory,...
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The Syntax of Noun Phrases
Alessandra Giorgi and Giuseppe Longobardi’s important study of the argument structure of lexical projections, in particular of Noun Phrases, makes...
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The Syntax of Noun Phrases
Alessandra Giorgi and Giuseppe Longobardi’s important study of the argument structure of lexical projections, in particular of Noun Phrases, makes...
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On Definiteness
This book proposes a new theory of definiteness in language. It argues that definiteness should be viewed as a cover-term comprising three basic...
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Community Design and the Culture of Cities
Having perceived a widespread failure of most community-scale plans, Eduardo Lozano has created a large and humane vision for community design,...
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A Bibliography of Salon Criticism in Paris from the Ancien Régime to the Restoration, 1699–1827
This bibliography provides a source for reviews of the state-sponsored Parisian exhibitions of painting and sculpture (Salons) held during the period...
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Reasoning and Choice
Drawing on a multitude of data sets and building on analyses carried out over more than a decade, this book offers a major new theoretical...
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