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For generations the elements of humor, poignancy, fantasy, and unfettered morality found within acclaimed children's author Roald Dahl's most famous tales have captivated both children and adults. Classics like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Fant...

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This collection is the first of its kind: it brings to North America essays that are organized around the theme of the fantastic in Alain Robbe-Grillet's writings.

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A revaluation of Frosts major lyrics, Robert Frosts Visionary Gift: Mining and Minding the Wonder of Unexpected Supply makes a case for Frost as Americas preeminent philosophical poet. William F. Zak provides groundbreaking analysis to well over one hundred of Frosts lyrics.

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Stevenson's fiction is evaluated in the light of the significant Romantic traditions that have influenced the novel and the romance. Stevenson is also considered as a serious writer and compared with Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, and other major writers of the period. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-o

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This book, an innovative combination of literary history and reception theory, draws upon Robert Louis Stevenson's fiction and literary essays to argue that Stevenson both exemplified tensions within the literary market of his time and anticipated later developments in reading theory. -- .

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Focusing on an author characterised by geographical and aesthetic mobility, and on those who worked with him or wrote for him, 'Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s' investigates the operations of transatlantic literary networks during a period of key changes in transatlantic publishing through a series of critical case studies.

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The most authoritative, comprehensive, perceptive biography of R. L. Stevenson to date, using for the first time his collected correspondence which has been unavailable to all previous writers.

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In a study that examines seventeen of Ludlum's novels in depth, Macdonald uncovers the serious themes running through the novels.

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Robert Musil's novel "The Man Without Qualities" is widely recognized as a monument of modernist literature alongside "Remembrance of Things Past" and "Ulysses". This book positions Robert Musil's theory and writings within critical accounts of modernism and brings him into dialogue with continental philosophy.

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The popular, prolific and important science fiction writer, Robert Silverberg is analysed by scholars and critics of the genre. They particularly focus on aspects of his work which offer manifestly typical preoccupations of the modernist tradition (for example, the fragility of identity).

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Robert Southwell's poetic view of Spenser's, Signey's and Shakespeare's England is a cold one. This book close reads and contextualises his lighter lyric poetry and its connections to English recusant culture from the music of Willian Bryd to the coded embroideries of Mary Queen of Scots. -- .

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Like Arthur Conan Doyle before him, best-selling novelist Robin Cook has turned from the practice of medicine to that of writing popular suspense fiction.

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Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochesters poems, dramatic works, and letters in a biographical context. It argues that there is a thematic unity--the pursuit of pleasure--underlying his work, that this pursuit is religiously motivated and reflects Rochesters preoccupation with and, finally, acceptance of Christianity.

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Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 explores how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on what it has become in the present.

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Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 explores how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on what it has become in the present.

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