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Author: John Wilson Foster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-12-14
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780521679961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the perfect overview of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Author: Joseph N. Cleary
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-08-11
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1107031419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to Irish modernism, offering readers an accessible overview of key writers and artists.
Author: Martin Priestman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-11-06
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1107494508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form. The collection, by an international team of established specialists, offers students invaluable reference material including a chronology and guides to further reading. The volume aims to ensure that its readers will be grounded in the history of crime fiction and its critical reception.
Author: N. H. Keeble
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-09-17
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780521645225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to the writing produced by the English Revolution, with supporting chronology and guide to further reading.
Author: Derek Attridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-06-17
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 110749494X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.
Author: Richard Maxwell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-02-21
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781139827911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. Its canon has been widened to include less well known authors alongside Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth and Thomas Love Peacock. Over the last generation, especially, a remarkable range of popular works from the period have been re-discovered and reread intensively. This Companion offers an overview of British fiction written between roughly the mid-1760s and the early 1830s and is an ideal guide to the major authors, historical and cultural contexts, and later critical reception. The contributors to this volume represent the most up-to-date directions in scholarship, charting the ways in which the period's social, political and intellectual redefinitions created new fictional subjects, forms and audiences.
Author: Edward Copeland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-05
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780521498678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive guide to Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world and present-day criticism.
Author: Deirdre David
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-10-18
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1107005132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.
Author: Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-08-29
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 1107494486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Author: John Richetti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-09-05
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1139825046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.
