George Eliot in Context

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• George Eliot has always challenged her readers. Prodigiously learned, alive to the massive social changes of her time, defiant of many Victorian ortho... Lees meer

Tom Stoppard in Context

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• Tom Stoppard's work as a playwright and screenwriter has always been notable for mixing ideas with entertainment. From the early success of Rosencrant... Lees meer

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context

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• The fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald serves as a compelling and incisive chronicle of the Jazz Age and Depression Era. This collection explores the degr... Lees meer

Susan Glaspell in Context

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• Susan Glaspell in Context provides new, accessible, and informative essays by leading international scholars and artists on Pulitzer Prize winner Susa... Lees meer

Franz Kafka in Context

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• Franz Kafka (1883-1924) lived through one of the most turbulent periods in modern history, witnessing a world war, the dissolution of an empire and th... Lees meer

Thomas Pynchon in Context

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• Thomas Pynchon in Context guides students, scholars and other readers through the global scope and prolific imagination of Pynchon's challenging, cano... Lees meer

T. S. Eliot in Context

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• T. S. Eliot's work demands much from his readers. The more the reader knows about his allusions and range of cultural reference, the more rewarding hi... Lees meer

Edith Wharton in Context

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• Edith Wharton was one of America's most popular and prolific writers, becoming the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921. In a pub... Lees meer

Thomas Middleton in Context

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• The redefinition of the Thomas Middleton canon has led to an explosion of interest in this quintessential Jacobean. Middleton's best known plays, such... Lees meer

American Literature Context 1929

Philip R Yannella

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• This book situates American literature from the Great Depression to the present day in its historical context Explores the issues that engaged America... Lees meer

W. G. Sebald in Context

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• The German academic and writer W. G. Sebald made an astounding ascent into the canon of world literature. In this volume, leading experts from both th... Lees meer

Samuel Beckett in Context

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• When Samuel Beckett first came to international prominence with the success of Waiting for Godot, many critics believed the play was divorced from any... Lees meer

W.B. Yeats in Context

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• W. B. Yeats is a writer who requires, and at the same time tests the limits of, contextual study. More than perhaps any other Irish writer, he produce... Lees meer

Ezra Pound in Context

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• Long at the center of the modernist project, from editing Eliot's The Waste Land to publishing Joyce, Pound has also been a provocateur and instigator... Lees meer

Henry James in Context

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• Long misread as a novelist conspicuously lacking in historical consciousness, Henry James has often been viewed as detached from, and uninterested in,... Lees meer

Ben Jonson in Context

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• Bringing together a group of established and emergent Jonson scholars, this volume reacts to major new advances in thinking about the writer and his c... Lees meer

Daniel Defoe in Context

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• Innovative in its structure and approach, Daniel Defoe in Context contains 42 essays by leading scholars illuminating the life, times, and world of Da... Lees meer

George Bernard Shaw in Context

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• When George Bernard Shaw died in 1950, the world lost one of its most well-known authors, a revolutionary who was as renowned for his personality as h... Lees meer

Jorge Luis Borges in Context

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• Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he ... Lees meer

Langston Hughes in Context

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• Langston Hughes was among the most influential African American writers of the twentieth century. He inspired and challenged readers from Harlem to th... Lees meer

Jane Austen in Context

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• Covering many aspects of Jane Austen's life, works and historical context, this collection of essays provides the most complete one volume introductio... Lees meer

W. B. Yeats in Context

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• W. B. Yeats is a writer who requires, and at the same time tests the limits of, contextual study. More than perhaps any other Irish writer, he produce... Lees meer

Ernest Hemingway in Context

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• Ernest Hemingway's literary career was shaped by the remarkable contexts in which he lived, from the streets of suburban Chicago to the shores of the ... Lees meer

The Brontes in Context

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• Very few families produce one outstanding writer. The Brontë family produced three. The works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne remain immensely popular, a... Lees meer