This book conveniently surveys the lives and works of African American women writers.

Included are alphabetically arranged entries on more than 150 African American women novelists, poets, playwrights, short fiction writers, autobiographers, essayists, and influential scholars.

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First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity has increased with age, making it today a literary classic like Boccaccio's Decameron, or the works of Rabelais.

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Featuring contributions from authors in the area of women's literature and romance, this 19th-century book emphasises on courtship and marriage. The contributors include Jo Beverly, Alesia Holliday, Mercedes Lackey, and Joyce Millman. This compilation is a useful companion for those new to Jane Austen and also for well-versed Austen-philes.

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Takes stock of the extraordinary range of book-based adaptations of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, comprising reimaginings, sequels and coquels following the novel's original publication up to the 21st century.

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- Brilliantly written from a fresh, post-colonial perspective - Traces evolution from Europeans writing about Maori to Maori writing about themselves - Detailed analysis of the two leading Maori writers: Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace - Accessible for readers from senior high school upwards

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Though firmly rooted in the domestic, natural world, Jean Sprackland's poems are thrilling excursions into the lives that we live alongside our everyday ones: the lives we are aware of in dreams, in grief, in love.

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The ultimate gifty celebration of all things bookish.

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Jane Austen lived in an exciting age for travel. Improvements to roads and carriages meant that more people than ever were taking journeys for pleasure, to view picturesque scenery, to visit a spa town or the seaside, or to stay with distant relations.

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Johnsonian Studies, 1887-1950 was first published in 1951. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

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Designed for teachers, this is a comprehensive book of lesson plans, projects, discussion questions, reproducible worksheets and more.

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A guide to key terms in literary theory. It is designed for the student who needs to know what a particular term means, how it is used, and where it comes from, and enables them to apply the terms and concepts to their own investigations.

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A guide to key terms in literary theory - designed to make difficult terms, concepts and theorists accessible and understandable. It provides definitions of terms and concepts in literary theory, along with explanations of the major movements and figures in literary and cultural theory and a bibliography.

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The best pocket book to the subject!

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Provides an introduction to literary theory from basic information and orientation for the uninformed leading on to sophisticated readings. This book offers a guide to the major theories and theorists, including: humanism; structuralism; poststructuralism; psychoanalytic approaches; feminist approaches; ideology and discourse; and more.

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Designed for teachers, this is a comprehensive book of lesson plans, projects, discussion questions, reproducible worksheets and more.

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The secret history of novelists is often a history of exile and tourism - a history of language learning. But the history of the novel is the history of style.

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Drawing on the fields of psychology, neuroscience and anthropology, a New York Times best-selling author unlocks the secrets of mystery's allure, shedding new light on everything from the formulas of our favorite detective shows to the calculated risks of the stock market.

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Offers an investigation of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials Trilogy", and the insights it offers to the world. Contributors with backgrounds in philosophy, theology, science fiction, and children's literature help readers find their way through Pullman's trilogy.