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This reference companion is a guide to the tremendous amount of scholarship Poe has generated. Through chapters written by expert contributors, this volume reviews and represents Poe biography, criticism, aesthetics, philosophy and influence.

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Maugham based his characters on real people whom he observed and analyzed, and his characters transcend the themes and settings of his fictional worlds.

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Victorian novels remain enormously popular today: some continue to be made into films, while authors such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot are firmly established in the canon and taught at all levels.

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A collection of writings about the Grand Tour that is original and innovative, straying from the usual path of aristocrats and churches. -- .

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Traces how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. This work examines the causal factors or motives for murder - ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology.

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Dashiell Hammett's writing career began with the publication of The Parthian Shot, a tiny short story in The Smart Set in 1922, and virtually ended when he published 3 outstanding stories in Collier's in 1934.

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Lawrence does exist, no book has as yet offered as much detail on volumes containing the text of Lady Chatterley's Lover, nor has any attempted to capture the lengthy publishing history of Lawrence's pariah novel.

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Interest in critical theory has grown enormously since the end of the 1960s and now seems to be fully integrated into most university programs. He includes terms that have appeared with great frequency in the indexes to anthologies of critical theory, either general or specific to a period or school;

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The apparent thematic peg here is Plath's fascination with mirrors in her life and in her work. A developmental study of Plath's poetry, A Disturbance in Mirrors considers various aspects of her work: the social implications of mythic imagery in her early poems;

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Situates the poem in its political and religious context while offering a full textual analysis. -- .

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Most of the entries cite works for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography.

Entries often cite works for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography.

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A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory offers a clear and comprehensive guide to key literary theory terms. Now in its fourth edition, this text is a standard in the field and is an essential reference.

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A guide to all of Brecht's key plays that sets them in their historical, dramaturgical and political contexts

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This book provides an accessible route into Milton's complex epic poem, guiding students through the text by a combination of close textual analysis and summary of key themes and techniques. Assuming limited biblical or classical knowledge, it focuses on developing the reading skills necessary for tackling this canonical text.

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Gustave Flaubert is probably the most famous novelist of nineteenth-century France, and his best known work, Madame Bovary, is read in numerous comparative literature and French courses.

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This reference book makes information available to readers interested in Fielding, his life, and his works.

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Best remembered today as the author of The Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow continues to be one of the most popular poets in American literary history.

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This encyclopedia is a comprehensive guide to Melville's rich and complex literary career.

The volume includes several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for all of Melville's works and characters, and for his family members, friends, and acquaintances.

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