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New Essays on Song of Solomon
The essays collected here, written by leading critics of Toni Morrison’s work, exemplify the fresh theoretical and cultural perspectives that have...
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Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature
The pursuit of sexual freedom and its political, philosophical and practical implications are the themes of this wide-ranging new study of...
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V. S. Naipaul
This introductory study offers a critical overview of the major works of V. S. Naipaul from 1950 to the present day. Professor Mustafa’s main...
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The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton
The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers a series of fresh examinations of Edith Wharton’s fiction written both to meet the interest of the...
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The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance
Two contradictory, or apparantly contradictory, pairs of terms - depression and abundance, and literature and mass culture - make up the framework of...
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Cross-Cultural Reckonings
These far-reaching essays offer a serious and thought-provoking account of the complexities of cross-cultural interpretation. Bringing together such...
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Voyages in Print
The decades leading up to England’s first permanent American colony saw not only territorial and commercial expansion but also the emergence of a...
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A Plot of Her Own
A Plot of Her Own presents compelling new readings of major texts in the Russian literary canon, all of which are readily available in translation....
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Wisdom, Authority and Grammar in the Seventh Century
The works of the seventh-century writer Virgilius Maro Grammaticus are among the most puzzling medieval texts to survive. Ostensibly a pair of...
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit makes the case for Wharton as a novelist of morals rather than of manners; a novelist who sought answers to...
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Bakhtin in Contexts
The Russian critic M. M. Bakhtin has recently become a major figure in contemporary theory beyond his traditional influence in Slavic literary...
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Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama
The provocative notion of a contemporary cross-cultural exchange within the medium of theatre is here imposed upon a dozen contemporary...
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Wordsworth’s Pope
Recent studies of the concepts and ideologies of Romanticism have neglected to examine the ways in which Romanticism defined itself by reconfiguring...
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The Margins of Orthodoxy
The struggle between orthodox Anglicans and the deists, freethinkers, and atheists who opposed their exclusive claims to religious power and...
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Within the Human Realm
This book is a study of the poetry of Huang Zunxian, one of the most famous authors of late nineteenth-century China. The first part consists of a...
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T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets
Criticism of Eliot has ignored the public dimension of his life and work. His poetry is often seen as the private record of an internal spiritual...
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Modern American Short Story Sequences
This book gathers together eleven full-length essays on important American short story sequences of the twentieth century. The introduction by J....
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The Textuality of Old English Poetry
This study constructs a reading of Old English poetry which takes up issues current in poststructuralist theory, including intertextuality, work...
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American Literary Publishing in the Mid-nineteenth Century
This is a study of some of the central questions in literary publishing in mid-nineteenth-century North America and Britain, addressed through...
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The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature
The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature juxtaposes representations of labour in fictional texts and non-fictional texts in order to...
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Swift’s Parody
Jonathan Swift’s prose has been discussed extensively as satire, but its major structural element, parody, has not received the attention it...
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An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature
This is a revised, updated edition of Jean Franco’s classic Introduction to Spanish-American Literature, first published in 1969 and much...
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Wagner’s Musical Prose
This book is a study of the prose writings of Richard Wagner and their relevance to an understanding of his music and drama, as well as their...
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Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature
African oral literature, like other forms of popular culture, is not merely folksy, domestic entertainment but a domain in which individuals in a...
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