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An exciting and provocative collection of essays which registers the changes to 'Englishness' since the 1950s, 'The revisions of Englishness' explores how conventional ideas of 'Englishness' have been re-imagined in post-war fiction, poetry and film. -- .

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Richard Wright is one of the most important African American writers. By attacking the taboos and hypocrisy that other writers had failed to address, he revolutionized American literature and created a disturbing and realistic portrait of the African American experience.

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She died in 1869.

The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters tells the remarkable but little-known story of women writers in the eighteenth century - of poets, critics, dramatists and scholars celebrated in their own time but all but forgotten by the beginning of the new century.

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This guide explores the dominant methodologies, theories and debates surrounding the emergence of the novel during the eighteenth century. Covering key criticism on authors such as Defoe, Fielding, Richardson and Austen, the emphasis is on how critical work is interrelated, allowing readers to discern trends in the critical conversation.

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This text argues that Kenneth Burke was the most deciding influence on Ralph Ellison's work, that Burke and Ellison are firmly situated within the American tradition of religious naturalism and that this tradition offers a useful means for considering identity and mitigating religious conflict.

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Following on from the success of The Speckled People, Hugo Hamilton's new memoir recounts the summer he spent working at a local harbour in Ireland, at a time of tremendous fear and mistrust.

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A complete and comprehensive guide to the science fiction (sf) field for literature students.

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A complete and comprehensive guide to the science fiction (sf) field for literature students.

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Five essays address topics connected to Tusquets' newest work, Para no volver, on which almost no published critical work exists.

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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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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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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

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Despite the fact that a number of Rudolph Fisher's works appeared in national magazines such as Atlantic Monthly and McClure's, little critical attention has been devoted to his short fiction over the years.

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Introduces us to an extraordinary masterpiece of Hebrew literature S Y Agnon's "Only Yesterday". This collection includes an essay on the essence of his ideology and poetics.

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Three interrelated aspects of detective fiction are addressed: the mystery story as a vehicle for social criticism, women crime writers, and the American hard-boiled detective story--its origins in cowboy fiction, recent trends, and whether the mean streets still belong exclusively to men.

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Individual chapters explore the varieties of social Christian novels, the effect of social change on theology as represented in the social Christian novel, and the social Christian novel as literature.

The only book of its kind about social gospel fiction, the work surveys the subject from divergent points of view.