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This second volume of Edward Bond's notebooks explores the meeting point between politics and the art of the writer. His notes chart the creative process of some of his most recent work, his involvment in theatre-in-education and his increasing popularity in Europe.

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One of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, the acclaimed writer John Cornwell has finally written his own story, and the story of a choice he had to make between the Church and a life lived outside its confines.

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Most critics of novelist Eudora Welty have concentrated on her Southern background. In this work the author uses a gender-specific approach to analyzing Welty's novels, illustrating how her narrative techniques establish female authority and frequently undermine patriarchal values.

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An unusual grouping of mainly British writers, this insightful study includes some, like Henry James, who are indisputably leaders of the canon regardless of genre, and others, like Algernon Blackwood, who wrote almost exclusively in the supernatural;

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Presents a critique of views that the fiction of Joseph Conrad is innocent of any interest in or concern with sexuality and the erotic, and that when he does attempt to depict sexual desire or erotic excitement, it results in bad writing. This book argues for a revision of the view that Conrad lacks understanding of and interest in sexuality.

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This study of the Native American in the western, romance, detective, horror, and science fiction genres examines how even historically accurate representations distort and bias the Native American figure to fit European-based traditions and modern agendas.

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She-Wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature. -- .

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This volume presents a new aspect in the study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: a case study of the publishing history of his works.

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Making use of recent feminist critical theory, Doane considers Gertrude Stein's modernist preoccupation with narrative silence in her early novels.

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Although Smollett's obvious masculine sensibility has become a commonplace in criticism of the 18th-century novel, the basis and particularities of that sensibility have never been examined. This study attempts to show that in each category Smollett's treatment depends on the fictional purposes that these characters serve in his novels.

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Elizabeth Gaskell's work and life are being rediscovered against a backdrop of Victorian middle-class women's experience by many feminist scholars. Examining the theme of work in Gaskell's novels, Colby presents this Victorian novelist as an effective advocate of change as she tried to create space for women within the world of work.

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This book examines the prominence of spirituality in her writings.

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In the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks, the political situation in both the United States and abroad has often been described as a 'state of exception': a situation in which the normal rule of law is suspended. This book investigates the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of decisions in post-9/11 contemporary fiction.

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Stephen Wall, Trollope and Character (1988) and Other Essays on Victorian Literature is a collection of critical essays by the eminent literary critic Stephen Wall, including his exceptional writings on Anthony Trollope, as well as brilliant studies of Charles Dickens and other major Victorian figures.

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Organized alphabetically by author name and series title, this guide offers readers approximately 700 supernatural and speculative mysteries, with most (about 80 per cent) being series titles. It covers mysteries crossed with various types of speculative fiction, including mysteries with a future settings, and mysteries involving sorcery.

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Shows how Coetzee makes us reconsider certain basic formal and existential questions such as the nature of literary realism and the authority of the author.

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Accessible literary criticism of Charles Dickens' important fictional works.

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An examination of the literary accomplishments of both Charlotte and Emily Bronte, particularly how they redefined the Victorian novel with "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights". It contains biographical accounts, along with analyses of plot, character development, thematic issues, and more.

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Full chapters are also devoted to examining his collections of short fiction, the African Stories, and the posthumous works.

Each chapter carefully examines the major literary components of Hemingway's fiction with plot synopsis, analysis of character development, themes, settings, historical context, and stylistic features.