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The novel has proven to be the premier literary form in the exploration of social ideas and protest. This reference guide offers concise information on 200 landmark novels and their impacts on society throughout history and around the world.

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A study tracing issues of race, class and imperialism in the South Pacific through the work of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London.

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This valuable compilation of articles offers original, historical, biographical and literary perspectives on the works of Stendhal.

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Sexuality and erotic desire were important components of Victorian culture, and the novels of the Victorian era reflect the sexual attitudes of the authors and culture of that period.

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A study of supernatural short fiction from the Americas. Dana Del George situates this supernatural fiction within the changing cultural and epistemological contexts of the last 200 years and explores how writers have drawn upon a wealth of indigenous traditions.

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Explores the literary expression of crises of social classification that occupied U.S. public discourse in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848. This book shows how, lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers struggled to find social taxonomies able to capture and manage inequalities of wealth and power.

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A text which presents the opinions, theories, and research of many of today's best known short story writers, theorists and critics.

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Eight of Russia's most popular and significant novels are presented in this guide for students. In each chapter, David Gillespie examines one novel in detail and explores the career of the author and the critical reception of the work.

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Challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. This title shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the transformation of the American middle class from small property owners to white-collar employees.

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Now a firmly established part of world literature course offerings in many general education curricula, African literature is no longer housed exclusively with African Studies programs, and is often studied in English, French, Portuguese, Women's Studies, and Comparative Studies departments.

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An outstanding research guide for undergraduate students of American literature, this best-selling book is essential when it comes to researching American authors.

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Devoted exclusively to women writers from the English-speaking world, this book presents undergraduate students with an array of important resources necessary for 21st-century literary research.

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This volume collects critical essays that provide a broader understanding of the magazine Weird Tales and its authors, artists, readers, and editorial practices, as well as the larger impact that the periodical had on popular culture and genre fiction. In particular, these ess...

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"A critical overview of the writing of David Foster Wallace, taking his persistent interests in philosophy, language and plurality as points of departure"--

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Introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. This book considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on popular texts including Dickens' "Oliver Twist", Gaskell's "North and South" and Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge".

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Introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. This book considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on popular texts including Dickens' "Oliver Twist", Gaskell's "North and South" and Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge".

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Marianna Torgovnick maintains that it is worthwhile to think about novels in terms of the visual arts--in part because major novelists like James, Lawrence, and Woolf did so, and did so fruitfully, as they were influenced by their perceptions of artistic movements. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-o

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The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver explores the visual dimensions of literary texts by looking at the rich representations of vision, movement and space in Raymond Carver's short fiction. Ayala Amir analyzes Carver's stories using insights borrowed from the critical discours...