Fairleigh Press: 250 books
Morley of Blackburn
A Literary and Political Biography of John Morley
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
This biography covers both the literary and political career of John Morley, later Lord Morley of Blackburn (1838–1923). As a writer, Morley made his reputation as the radical editor of The Fortnightly Review from 1867 to 1882. This was an influential periodical for which Morley commissioned articles...
The Life of Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay
Drifter and Dreamer
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay has been the most popular writer of novels and short stories in his native Bengaland in India at large. Despite this, he remains unrecognized in the English speaking world. Narasingha P. Sil fills this void by presenting a historical critical assessment of his upbringing...
Resistance, Heroism, Loss
World War II in Italian Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
In no other country in Europe has national identity been so closely bound to memories of the war. Italy’s Republic was born of World War II, its constitution defined by anti-Fascism, its parties self-identified with national Resistance. Because of their importance to the nation’s identity, the...
by Matthew Gartner, Lauren Gatti, Andrew C. Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Reconsidering Longfellow is the first collection of scholarly essays in several decades devoted entirely to the work and afterlife of the most popular and widely read writer in American literature. The essays, written by a new generation of Longfellow scholars, cover the entire range of Longfellow’s...
Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin
Essays on the Writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Ever since feminist scholarship began to reintroduce Harriet Beecher Stowe's writings to the American Literary canon in the 1970s, critical interest in her work has steadily increased. Rediscovery and ultimate canonization, however, have concentrated to a large extent on her major novelistic achievement,...
Selected Writings and Speeches of James E. Shepard, 1896–1946
Founder of North Carolina Central University
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
James Edward Shepard was an African-American leader between 1900 and 1947. He was, however, more than a race leader. Shepard was a minister, politician, pharmacist, entrepreneur, world traveler, civil servant, businessman, one of the founders of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company (the world's...
Screening Woolf
Virginia Woolf on/and/in Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
As the subtitle indicates, this book has three majors concerns. The first and most important concern is an examination of the film adaptations of Woolf’s novels—To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and Mrs. Dalloway—in the order the films were released. This is the heart of the matter, a fairly conventional...
Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim
At Her Most Radiant Moment
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
When Elizabeth von Arnim anonymously published her debut Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898), she became a literary star overnight. The mystery surrounding the identity of this witty aristocratic diarist in her romantic garden kept readers guessing: Who was Elizabeth? A Prussian Princess? The daughter...
Compelling Confessions
The Politics of Personal Disclosure
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Compelling Confessions: The Politics of Personal Disclosure is a collection of essays whose shared purpose is to offer an accessible interdisciplinary exploration of the social dynamics behind confessional discourse. As various contributors to this collection demonstrate, confession is ubiquitous...
Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature
A Tribute to John Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
This book examines the vast range of human experience with British and American literature, from the publishing industry to film adaptations to literary puzzles. Our experience with literature is more than what we read; it is also how we read, how literature is produced and the eternal puzzles it creates.
The Ring and the Cross
Christianity and the Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
The conversation, sometimes heated, about the influence of Christianity on the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien has a long history. What has been lacking is a forum for a civilized discussion about the topic, as well as a chronological overview of the major arguments and themes that have engaged scholars...
Filming Forster
The Challenges of Adapting E.M. Forster's Novels for the Screen
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Filming Forster focuses upon the challenges of producing film adaptations of five of E. M. Forster’s novels. Rather than follow the older comparative approach, which typically damned the film for not being “faithful” to the novel, this project explores the interactive relationship between film...
Literature, Intertextuality, and the American Revolution
From Common Sense to Rip Van Winkle
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Dealing with Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1776), John Trumbull's M'Fingal (1776-82), Philip Freneau's "The British-Prison Ship" (1781), J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer (1782), and Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" (1819-20), Steven Blakemore breaks new ground...
Ernst Toller and German Society
Intellectuals as Leaders and Critics, 1914–1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
During the years of Weimar and the Third Reich, Toller was one of the more active of the "other Germany's" left-wing intellectuals. A leader of the Bavarian Soviet of 1919, he had in addition won the Kleist prize and was recognized as one of Germany's best playwrights. Indeed, during the...