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A guide to "The Turn of the Screw", offering students guidance on contexts, language, criticism and reading the text. It sets "The Turn of the Screw" in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analysis of its themes, style and structure, and examining its afterlife in literature, film and popular culture.

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Jane Austen is not usually associated with children - especially since she had none of her own. But there are in fact more children in her novels than one might at first think. This book looks at both the real and the literary children in Austen's life; children as models of behaviour, good and bad; and, children as heirs.

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This study demonstrates Austen's parallels with 18th century courtesy books in shaping her characters. Educational and recreational activities in her works are often similar to the activities recommended by the courtesy books of her time.

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This text identifies leisure and its use as a central characteristic of Jane Austen's work, by examining her life and by looking at the range of leisure pursuits in her novels.

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This work demonstrates the importance of Jane Austen's clerical background in explaining the clergy in her novels, whether Mr Tilney in "Northanger Abbey", Mr Elton in "Emma", or a less prominent character such as Dr Grant in "Mansfield Park".

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This work demonstrates the importance of Jane Austen's clerical background in explaining the clergy in her novels, whether Mr Tilney in "Northanger Abbey", Mr Elton in "Emma", or a less prominent character such as Dr Grant in "Mansfield Park".

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This selection of short, engaging essays examines and explains key terms that Jane Austen repeatedly drew on in her fiction, words which have faded from everyday use today but are vital to understanding her fiction.

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Provides an account of the novelist's surviving papers. This book examines "Sir Charles Grandison", a work attributed to Jane Austen by the author in 1977. In an appendix, he discusses Mrs Leavis's theory concerning the relationship between Jane Austen's life and art, and between the juvenilia and the later novels.

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This approachable guide explores the secondary criticism surrounding Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, from their publication in 1818 through to today. Enit Karafili Steiner explores the key themes and concerns that have stimulated debate over the years, as well as providing an overview of the critical responses to screen adaptations.

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"A case study in international reception, pairing translated and adapted "foreign" material with German national popular literary production to examine the spread and power of a romance plot promising liberation, parity, and love"--

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This work is part of the "Continuum Contemporaries" series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains a biography of the novelist and a full-length study of the novel.

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A collection of essays, which explore the myriad appropriations of Jane Austen - adaptations, reviews, rewritings, and appreciations - that have been produced since her lifetime.

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Reference Books Bulletin

The book is a marvelous resource for teachers who teach Japan to children and young adults. The annotations for trade books published from the mid-sixties to the present will help teachers, librarians, and interested parents select appropriate materials from the vast numbers of books available.

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"No Plays" are a major contribution to Japanese theatre. These lyric dramas evolved in the 14th century from ritual dances associated with Shinto worship, and their form became fixed in the 17th century. This book looks at this Japanese art form and its influences on Western writers.

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The volume includes 58 alphabetically arranged biographical and critical profiles of these women.

The book profiles women writers who are considered mainstream writers in Japan and who have attracted attention in the West, chiefly through translations of their works and critical scholarship on their writings.

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This collection of essays on the topics of feminist voice, vision, and performance in political poetries by Jayne Cortez and Adrienne Rich includes visual art and commentary by the feminist sculptor Linda Stein. The book examines the rise of the American popular-culture female superhero--notably, Wonder Woman--exploring the textuality of female-poetic activism through this superhero theme.

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Embracing the entire history of jazz poetry, the work defines this inspired literary genre as poetry necessarily informed by jazz music.

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Embracing the entire history of jazz poetry, the work defines this inspired literary genre as poetry necessarily informed by jazz music.

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