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The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry is the first book-length study of the contemporary poetry industry. By documenting radical changes over the past decade in the way poems are published, marketed, and circulated, it connects the seemingly small world of poetry with the other, wider creative industries.

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The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry is the first book-length study of the contemporary poetry industry.

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This work examines the dialectic of desire and value, as it affects the protagonist's identity, in fiction from Dickens and George Eliot through Hardy and Conrad to Lawrence and Joyce. Philip Weinstein describes the growing sexualization of the imagined body--the transformation of the protagonistic self from a figure defined by semantics, significa

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Considering a wide range of early modern texts, performances and artworks, the essays in this collection demonstrate how attention to the senses illuminates the literature, art and culture of early modern England. -- .

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The nineteenth-century French novel has been seen as the production of great men, who confronted in their works the social consequences of the French Revolution. This book argues that to understand how literary codes respond to material factors, it is imperative to see how such factors take shape within the literary field and the society.

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Offers an introduction to English literature in the seventeenth century. This book provides resource for literature students, with the essential information and guidance needed at the beginning of a course through to the development of more advanced knowledge and skills. It includes introductions to authors, texts and contexts.

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Offers an introduction to English literature in the seventeenth century. This book provides resource for literature students, with the essential information and guidance needed at the beginning of a course through to the development of more advanced knowledge and skills. It includes introductions to authors, texts and contexts.

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In this wide-ranging study Marina Scordilis Brownlee investigates the importance of the letter--often a complex interplay of objectivity and subjectivity--in the establishment of novelistic discourse. She shows how Ovid's Heroides explore the discourse of epistolarity in a way that exerted a lasting effect on Italian, French, and Spanish works of t

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The Sexual Imperative in the Novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard offers a detailed and previously undocumented account of how the writers emotional experiences, primarily in the sexual arena, consistently informed and enriched his fiction.

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'The Sexual Imperative in the Novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard' offers a detailed and previously undocumented account of how the writer's emotional experiences, primarily in the sexual arena, consistently informed and enriched his fiction.

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A bold exploration of the controversial role that black women writers have played in the making of African-American literature by the bestselling author of Sex and Racism in America. "Confirms that black women authors are celebrating a literary Fourth of July in America".--Plain Dealer. (Anchor)

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Presents a reassessment of English Romantic literature and the unique role it played in one of the great liberal political causes of the modern age. This work argues that Romantic writers in Great Britain led one of the earliest assaults on the death penalty and were instrumental in bringing about penal-law reforms.

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Offers coverage of the major issues and key figures in Shakespeare studies, designed to facilitate progression from introductory topics to more sophisticated approaches. This work presents an introduction to Shakespeare and early modern literature. It provides an overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions research.

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Richard Hillmans latest book on the French connections of early modern English drama shows that Shakespeare regularly inflected the models provided by Italian comedy and tragicomedy by evoking French material, dramatic and non-dramatic. Such inflection especially bears on the tragic overtones that menace or complicate comic resolutions.

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David Bethea examines the distinctly Russian view of the "end" of history in five major works of modern Russian fiction. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These ed