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by Edgar Allan Poe, G. K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Everybody who wants to become a professional writer always looks for the success of their stories and for being read by the most possible readers. The best way to achieve it is to turn to the greatest authors of all times. This compilation of essays, signed by four well-known English and American writers,...
Scholarship, Commerce, Religion
The Learned Book in the Age of Confessions, 1560–1630
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
This study of the learned book trade of the late Renaissance reveals how many features of today’s publishing world were in place even then. Beginning in Frankfurt, Maclean surveys the authors, publishers, censors, and sellers who operated in this fraught religious atmosphere and overheated market, and ends with the market’s decline in the 1620s.
Masters of the English Novel
A Study of Principles and Personalities
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
The principle of inclusion in this book is the traditional one which assumes that criticism is only safe when it deals with authors who are dead. In proportion as we approach the living or, worse, speak of those still on earth, the proper perspective is lost and the dangers of contemporary judgment...
by G. Thomas Tanselle
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Textual criticism—the traditional term for the task of evaluating the authority of the words and punctuation of a text—is often considered an undertaking preliminary to literary criticism: many people believe that the job of textual critics is to provide reliable texts for literary critics to...
by BookRags
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The Soul on Ice Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.
A Life in Words
Conversations with I. B. Siegumfeldt
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
An inside look into Paul Auster's art and craft, the inspirations and obsessions, mesmerizing and dramatic in turn.
A remarkably candid, and often surprisingly dramatic, investigation into one writer's art, craft, and life, A Life in Words is rooted in three years of dialogue between Auster...
Negotiating Copyright
Authorship and the Discourse of Literary Property Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by BookRags
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.
The Ink Trade
Selected Journalism 1961 - 1993
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018
"The title of journalist is probably very noble, but I lay no real claim to it. I am, I think, a novelist and a musical composer manqué: I make no other pretensions …" (Anthony Burgess)
Despite his modest claims, Anthony Burgess was an enormously prolific journalist. During his...
by BookRags
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.
Disputed Titles
Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798–1832
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Disputed Titles: Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798-1832 argues for the centrality of inheritance—often impeded, disrupted inheritance—to the novel’s rise to preeminence in Britain during the Romantic period. Novels by Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson, Charles Maturin, Walter...
Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity, 1780-1850
Subjects, Texts, and Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book makes an important contribution to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on identity formation and print culture in the Atlantic world. The collection identifies the ways in which historically-situated but malleable subjectivities engage with popular and pressing debates...
The Grasping Imagination
The American Writings of Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
There has been almost no study of the American writings of Henry James, that is, the fiction, essays, and travel literature with an American setting. The great bulk of Jamesian criticism deals with the international novels, particularly his late works.
This study places James’s career in...