Movements & Periods

Equally suitable for undergraduates and specialists in the humanities, this collection provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial the...

The Hudson Series is dedicated to providing the best literature - without commentary or interpretation - at a student-friendly price.Categories: Literature ...

Presents The Classic Study Of Power And Politics Written In 1513 By A Florentine Diplomat That Recommends Guile And Ruthlessness To Achieve And Maintain Pol...

Now A Netflix Original Series Discover The Classic, Behind-the-scenes Chronicle Of John E. Douglas’ Twenty-five-year Career In The Fbi Investigative Suppo...

What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives and the texts we read? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in l...

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth...

This Reader Provides A Comprehensive Resource For Students And Scholars Working In This Vibrant And Interdisciplinary Field. The Book Traces The Emergence A...

The Bedford Glossary of Critical & Literary Terms is a thorough reference book, helping today's students define hundreds of literay and critical terms i...

As An Outspoken Lawyer, Law Professor, Bestselling Author, And Public Personality Extraordinaire, Alan M. Dershowitz Has Been A Controversial And Vocal Crit...

A Collection Of Sharp, Poignant Essays That Expertly Blends The Personal And Political In An Exploration Of American Culture Through The Lens Of Our Obsessi...

The definitive guide for all fans of Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, and the glittering Regency period Publishers Weekly Meticulously researched yet splend...

In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative ...

Gregory Answers The Question About An Unsolved Crime That Has Fascinated Detectives And Historians For Centuries. Useing Documents And Evidence From The Tud...

One Of The Most Important Works Of Twentieth-century American Literature, Zora Neale Hurston's Beloved 1937 Classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Is An End...

Oxford Basics are short, easy-to-use books based on communicative methodology. They provide ideas for teachers and guidance on how to handle everyday classr...

Dies The Victim, Dies The City -- Not A Social Viewpoint, Merely Addition -- A Dream Character In Dancing Pumps -- You Give Them Food And They Die -- Only S...

In this sustained interpretation, Stephen Halliwell demonstrates that Poetics, despite its laconic brevity, contains a coherent statement of mimetic art in ...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of ...

Read Shakespeare’s plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means! Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make...

This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of ling...

Spotlighting superb examples of classical Greek art in the context of recent findings in anthropology, social history, psychology, classics, and classical a...

Legendary thriller writer David Morrell transports readers to the fogbound streets of London, where a killer plots to assisinate Queen Victoria. The year ...

In The Gripping New Novel From The Queen Of Suspense, A Woman Is Haunted By Two Grisly Murders Separated By More Than A Century, Yet Somehow, Inextricably L...

A Retelling Of Snow White Set In Renaissance Italy Draws A Link Between The Original Fairy Tale And The Borgia Family's Infamous Practice Of Poisoning Its E...

The Author Draws Parallels Between The Odyssey And The Experiences Of Vietnam Veterans After Returning To The United States. Introduction -- Odysseus Among ...

William Shakespeare, The Most Celebrated Poet In The English Language, Left Behind Nearly A Million Words Of Text, But His Biography Has Long Been A Thicket...

Sixteen Years After Her Betrothed Joined The Military To Escape Their Arranged Marriage, Adriana Rises To One Of Society's Most Desirable Aristocrats And Wo...

Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for...

A radical reassessment of the famed Victorian author, revealing the true story behind the creator of some of literature's best-known novels. This dynamic ne...

This Accessible Introduction To Victorian Literature And Its Contexts From 1837-1901 Includes: An Overview Of The Historical, Cultural And Intellectual Back...

"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.”--George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incred...

This distinguished historical narrative of the Tudor period considers the major themes of the period: the resoration of order, reformation of the Church and...

For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to...

To the LighthouseCategories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism Movements & PeriodsModern

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of k...

Studies major works by important sculptors since Rodin in the light of different approaches to general sculptural issues to reveal the logical progressions ...

In the CliffsComplete guides, the play's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual w...

From Gregory Maguire, The Acclaimed Author Of Wicked, Comes His Much-anticipated Second Novel, A Brilliant And Provocative Retelling Of The Timeless Cindere...

A Monumental Volume Of Egyptian Culture, History, And Arcania, To Help Readers Immerse Themselves In Amelia Peabody's World More Completely Than Ever Before...

Writings by leading critics survey the history of literary analysis from classical antiquityCategories: Literature & Fiction History & CriticismMove...

This volume includes works by Spenser (excerpts from all books of The Faerie Queene), Shakespeare (including The Tempest), Marlowe (Dr. Faustus, Hero and Le...

Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin. Their witty modern idiom is highly entertaining. In this volume...

Presents The Original Text Of Shakespeare's Play Side By Side With A Modern Version, With Marginal Notes And Explanations And Full Descriptions Of Each Char...

When you want to create a delicious lunch for two, an appetizing snack to share or something special for an intimate dinner, Good Food 101 Meals for Two wil...

For Students Trying To Make Sense Of The Performativity And Related Concepts Such As The Speech Act, 'ordinary Language', And Iterability, And For Those See...

This Book Offers A Short, Spirited Defense Of Rhetoric And The Liberal Arts As Catalysts For Precision, Invention, And Empathy In Today's World. The Author,...

This book is divided into five parts and covers: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology...

James M. Lellard uses Lacan's psychoanalytic theories to provide interpretations of lierary works including The Scarlet Letter, to The Lighthouse, and other...