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"Examines the recent resurgence of folk horror and argues that Thomas Hardy is one of its progenitors by analysing his prose (in particular his rarely examined short fiction) and its adaptations as foundational in the development of folk horror in literature, film and television"--

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"Examines the recent resurgence of folk horror and argues that Thomas Hardy is one of its progenitors by analysing his prose (in particular his rarely examined short fiction) and its adaptations as foundational in the development of folk horror in literature, film and television"--

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This collection offers a groundbreaking study of Thomas Heywoods fascinatingly individual engagement with the classics across his writing career. It considers the wide diversity of genres to which he contributed, including dramas, translations, compendia, and iconographical designs, and attends to the shaping role of classics in his authorial self-fashioning and idiosyncratic aesthetic.

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This, the first modern critical study of a lyricist, humorist and social protest poet who was a household name throughout the Victorian period, explores the relationship between Thomas Hood's playfulness, his liberal politics, and contemporary cultural debate about labour and recreation, literary materiality and urban consumption. -- .

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'Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine' explains the disparate opinions, charting his writing's production and reception as shaping a literary career. It tracks tensions between literary and commercial values, national and international expectations, celebrity status and literary reputation.

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"Thomas Mann and the Travesty of Innocence in the Major Fiction" demonstrates how Mann's modernist narrator absolves himself (and the social class he represents) and learns to enjoy his godlike privileges via a modernist fictional performance based on a revisionary model of ancient Gnosticism reinterpreted for our secular era.

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Presents an account of the various editions of "Utopia", whether vernacular or Latin, printed before 1650, together with a transcription of the prefatory materials they contain. This book is suitable for specialists in early modern cultural history and history of the book, and to graduate students working in these fields.

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Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped by regional travel, non-literary, non-elite works, and oral culture. The essays in this collection address Nashes use of the past, his engagement with the Elizabethan present, and his textual legacy.

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Examines an anonymous manuscript play that has long been the subject of scholarly dispute regarding its relationship with Shakespeare's "Richard II". This title situates the play within its historical and political context, relating it to the genre of chronicle drama to which it belongs.

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A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon -- .

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A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon -- .

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Thoreau turned toward Indians in his writing as well as in his life, and this book traces the long and arduous process by which his ideas about Indians evolved from savagist stereotypes to attitudes of greater originality. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available

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Early in Thoreau's career, he became obsessed with the problem of getting to be at home in the world. This ambitious book relates that obsession to his way of fostering at-homeness: "inscribing" himself not only through words but through such occupations as the making of books, houses, and tracks in the woods. Frederick Garber reveals that a comple

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Thoreau's Reading charts Henry Thoreau's intellectual growth and its relation to his literary career from 1833, when he entered Harvard College, to his death in 1862. It also furnishes a catalogue of nearly fifteen hundred entries of his reading, compiled from references and allusions in his published writings, journal, correspondence, library char