Encyclopedia of British Writers
Author: Christine L. Krueger
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2014-07
Total Pages: 881
ISBN-13: 1438108702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis concise encyclopedic reference profiles more than 800 British poets
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Encyclopedia of the British Novel
Author: Virginia Brackett
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Published: 2015-04-22
Total Pages: 2708
ISBN-13: 1438140681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPraise for the print edition:" ... comprehensive ... Recommended."
Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present
Author: George Stade
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010-05-12
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 1438116896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information on major and lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, and includes articles on key schools of literature, and genres.
Victorian Studies
Author: Sharon W. Propas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-17
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1317216482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2006, this work is a valuable guide for the researcher in Victorian Studies. Updated to include electronic resources, this book provides guides to catalogs, archives, museums, collections and databases containing material on the Victorian period. It organises the vast array of reference sources by discipline to help researchers tailor their investigations.
Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings
Author: Steve Sullivan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017-05-17
Total Pages: 830
ISBN-13: 1442254491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest song recordings in the history of the music industry, from 1890 to today. In this masterful survey, all genres of popular music are covered, from pop, rock, soul, and country to jazz, blues, classic vocals, hip-hop, folk, gospel, and ethnic/world music. Collectors will find detailed discographical data—recording dates, record numbers, Billboard chart data, and personnel—while music lovers will appreciate the detailed commentaries and deep research on the songs, their recording, and the artists. Readers who revel in pop cultural history will savor each chapter as it plunges deeply into key events—in music, society, and the world—from each era of the past 125 years. Following in the wake of the first two volumes of his original Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, this follow-up work covers not only more beloved classic performances in pop music history, but many lesser -known but exceptional recordings that—in the modern digital world of “long tail” listening, re-mastered recordings, and “lost but found” possibilities—Sullivan mines from modern recording history. The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 3 and 4 lets the readers discover, and, through their playlist services, from such as iTunes toand Spotify, build a truly deepcomprehensive catalog of classic performances that deserve to be a part of every passionate music lover’s life. Sullivan organizes songs in chronological order, starting in 1890 and continuing all the way throughto the present to include modern gems from June 2016. In each chapter, Sullivanhe immerses readers, era by era, in the popular music recordings of the time, noting key events that occurred at the time to painting a comprehensive picture in music history of each periodfor each song. Moreover, Sullivan includes for context bulleted lists noting key events that occurred during the song’s recording
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set
Author: Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-01-18
Total Pages: 1581
ISBN-13: 1405192445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile
Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries
Author: Book Builders LLC.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 817
ISBN-13: 1438108699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a two-volume A to Z reference on English authors from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, providing information about major figures, key schools and genres, biographical information, author publications and some critical analyses.
Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose Arny
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 1816
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe History of British Women's Writing, 1880-1920
Author: Holly A. Laird
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-10-06
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1137393807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ranks of English women writers rose steeply in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, contributing to the era’s revolutionary social movements as well as to transforming literary genres in prose and poetry. The phenomena of ‘the new’ — ‘New Women’, ‘New Unionism’, ‘New Imperialism’, ‘New Ethics’, ‘New Critics’, ‘New Journalism’, ‘New Man’ — are this moment’s touchstones. This book tracks the period's new social phenomena and unfolds its distinctively modern modes of writing. It provides expert introductions amid new insights into women’s writing throughout the United Kingdom and around the globe.
Senior High Core Collection
Author: Raymond W. Barber
Publisher: H. W. Wilson
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 1496
ISBN-13: 9780824210861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures annotations for more than 6,200 works in the main volume (2007), and more than 2,400 new titles in three annual supplements published 2008 through 2010. New coverage of biographies, art, sports, Islam, the Middle East, cultural diversity, and other contemporary topics keeps your library's collection as current as today's headlines.
