39 previously published and original reminiscences, reviews, and critical essays about Price, author of A Long and Happy Life , The Surface of Earth , and Kate Vaiden . Contributors include Toni M
With its theme of autonomy and independence, Virginia Woolf's 1929 essay A Room of One's Own has become part of our modern cultural vocabulary. It was the first literary history of women writers and t
The blurring of the mundane and the horrible, perversions of the ordinary, visceral twistings of everyday life: such is the territory explored in much of Ian McEwan's fiction - works that have brought
Contains 12 contributions which address the cultural significance and social consequences of the emigration of Victorian women to the colonies and dominions of the British Empire. Topics range from t
Tom Quirk's study provides a comprehensive analysis of the comic genius and narrative originality that makes Mark Twain's short fiction a cornerstone of the American literary tradition. Quirk's presen
A study of one of Freud's most widely read but least discussed works, exploring connections between his philosophical views on the human condition and the substance and development of his theory. Sepa
Examines in turn Brontd's life, her strategies for self-invention through the imaginary world of Gondal, her struggle with patriarchal literary tradition in her poetry and drawings, her critique of Vi
Contains 32 newly commissioned and reprinted essays and articles addressing the work of novelist, poet, and critic Kingsley Amis (1922- 1995). Contributors include Paul Fussell, Robert H. Bell, John
In November 1969 tens of thousands of demonstrators converged on Washington, D.C., to protest U.S. involvement in Vietnam. For four days they marched, sang, and made speeches calling for an end to the
Jacques Derrida (1930-) is widely regarded as among the most influential - and controversial - of contemporary French intellectuals. The author of numerous, ground-breaking works on philosophy, litera
Macleod (history, Central Michigan U.) interprets much of the period's progressive reform movement as a tug-of-war between visions and aspiration of sheltered and cherished children, and the cramped h
The past two decades have seen an outpouring of new scholarship around the world on American writer Jack London (1876-1916), author of such eternal classics as The Call of the Wild (1903), now transl
Discusses the web of formal and informal military, political, economic, and cultural relationships that linked the destinies of the Scandinavian countries with the US during the Cold War and beyond,
After an introductory survey of the critical reception to American writer Chopin's (1851-1904) work, reprints a selection of 37 essays and reviews, or excerpts from them, ranging from her own time to
Thirty reviews and essays from the New York Times and various periodicals include early reviews from the 1930s and 1940s and recent scholarship covering the novels, the controversial play Mule Bone (f
