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Romance Fiction and American Culture
Love as the Practice of Freedom?
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Since the 1970s, romance novels have surpassed all other genres in terms of popularity in the United States, accounting for half of all mass market paperbacks sold and driving the digital publishing revolution. Romance Fiction and American Culture brings together scholars from the humanities, social...
Romanticism and Visuality
Fragments, History, Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
This book investigates the productive crosscurrents between visual culture and literary texts in the Romantic period, focusing on the construction and manipulation of the visual, the impact of new visual media on the literary and historical imagination, and on fragments and ruins as occupying the...
Romantic Ecocriticism
Origins and Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological...
Staging Early Modern Romance
Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one another in critical discourse: early modern prose fiction, the dramatic romances staged in England during the 1570s and 1580s, and Shakespeare’s late plays. Although Pericles, Cymbeline,...
Between Courtly Literature and Al-Andaluz
Oriental Symbolism and Influences in the Romances of Chretien de Troyes
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Catherine Delafield
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Examining the Victorian serial as a text in its own right, Catherine Delafield re-reads five novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Dinah Craik and Wilkie Collins by situating them in the context of periodical publication. She traces the roles of the author and editor in the creation and dissemination...
Middlebrow Wodehouse
P.G. Wodehouse's Work in Context
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
While he is best known for his Jeeves and Bertie Wooster stories, P.G. Wodehouse was a prolific writer who penned many other novels, stories, and musical comedy libretti, the latter of which played an enormous role in the development of American musical theater. This collection re-examines Wodehouse...
Timely Voices
Romance Writing in English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
From the fourteenth-century Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to In Parenthesis – an epic poem written in 1937 by painter and poet David Jones – English writers have looked to romance as a resource and a strategy to expand the imaginary reach of their writing. Rethinking the resilience, purpose,...
Economic Investigations in Twentieth-Century Detective Fiction
Expenditure, Labor, Value
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour. Using the detective as a reference point and enactor...
by Geoffrey Yarlott
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
First published in 1967, this book seeks to show the causes which led to Coleridge’s breakdown in 1802 and to indicate how his views on poetry changed as a result of it. The approach is selective in that it only focuses on one part of Coleridge’s life (roughly 1793-1810); however the author attempts...
Peace, war and party politics
The Conservatives and Europe, 1846–59
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book examines the mid-Victorian Conservative Party’s significant but overlooked role in British foreign policy and in contemporary debate about Britain’s relations with Europe. It considers the Conservatives’ response, in opposition and government, to the tumultuous era of Napoleon III, the Crimean war and Italian unification.
The Irish Fairy Tale
A Narrative Tradition from the Middle Ages to Yeats and Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Beginning with a critical reappraisal of the notion of “fairy tale” and extending it to include categories and genres which are in common usage in folklore and in literary studies, this book throws light on the general processes involved in storytelling. It illuminates the fundamental ways in...
by Anna Maynard Barbour
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
An American author of best-selling fiction. A 1903 article in the The Atlantic Monthly stated that "A. Maynard Barbour has been generally hailed as the most successful of American writers of mystery."
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by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories,...