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Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel "A Handmaid's Tale", engages the reader with a broad range of issues relating to power, gender and religious politics. This guide provides an overview of the key critical debates and interpretations of the novel and encourages you to engage with key questions and readings in your reading of the text.

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Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel "A Handmaid's Tale", engages the reader with a broad range of issues relating to power, gender and religious politics. This guide provides an overview of the key critical debates and interpretations of the novel and encourages you to engage with key questions and readings in your reading of the text.

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This reference is a comprehensive guide to Wilson's dramatic achievement.

The volume begins with an overview of Wilson's aesthetic and dramatic agenda, along with a discussion of the forces that propelled him beyond his potentially troubled life in Pittsburgh to his current status as one of America's most gifted playwrights.

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Based on extensive research that includes two interviews with Wilson, this reference book is a comprehensive guide to Wilson's life and career.

The volume begins with a chronology outlining the principle events in Wilson's rise from the racism he experienced as a youth in Pittsburgh to his triumphs on the New York stage.

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Howard D. Weinbrot challenges the view that the period 1660-1800 is correctly regarded as the "Augustan" age of English literature, a time in which classical Augustan ideals provided a main source of inspiration. Scholars have held that British writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century considered Augustus Caesar to be the model of the wise

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Explores the style, structure, themes, critical reputation and literary influence of Jane Austen's "Emma" and also discusses its film and TV versions. This study guide includes points for discussion, suggestions for further study and an annotated guide to relevant reading.

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Emma is one of Jane Austen's popular novels, in large part due to the impact of Emma Woodhouse, the 'handsome, clever and rich' heroine. This guide to Emma explores the style, structure, themes, critical reputation and literary influence of Jane Austen's novel and also discusses its film and TV versions.

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As the antipode to Europe, Australia provided a radically different and uniquely fertile ground for envisioning places, spaces and societies. 'The Antipodal Utopia' evaluates this complex intellectual history by mapping out how Western visions of Australia evolved from antiquity to the modern period.

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Reintroduces 50 classics of Australian literature - including novels, non-fiction, children's literature and poetry - from the last 200 years.

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A collection of short stories, novel excerpts, and essays by Australian writers from 1870 to the present deals with such issues as Australia's convict past, the nature of the bush, and the treatment of the aborigines.

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From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, a familiar scene appears and reappears in American literature: a speaker stands before a crowd of men and women, attempting to mitigate their natural suspicions in order to form a body of federated wills. In this important study of the relationship of literature and politics, Mark Patterson argues that t

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"Reconstructing literary practice across the last 75 years of carefully contextualized German history, this study provides a new ontology of authorship: how literature is created by people and why this matters to the wider world"--

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Stephen Railton's study of the American Renaissance proposes a fresh way of conceiving the writer as a performing artist and the text as an enactment of the drama of its own performance. Railton focuses on how major prose works of the period are preoccupied with their readers--how they seek to negotiate the conflicted space between the authors, who