First published in 2001. This is Volume VII of the Foreign Policies of the Great Powers eleven part series and focuses on on the policies of France from 1914 to 1945. It includes sections on French ……続きを見る
著者:Terry Baxter
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2004年05月01日
This book attempts to answer a fundamental question: How did Douglass manage to persuade anyone about the evils of slavery, and even impress viewers with his personal qualities, when his speeches we……続きを見る
A collections of anecdotes, reviews and essays, written with the humour and warmth one associates with Brian Aldiss.
In this fascinating collection of essays, one of the world’s pre-eminent SF write……続きを見る
First published in 1972. Studying Shakespeare's 'art of preparation', this book illustrates the relationship between the techniques of preparation and the structure and theme of the plays. Other ess……続きを見る
Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature looks at the ways in which Chicana/o authors who have experienced cultural disconnection or marginalization because of their gender, gender politics and s……続きを見る
著者:Jon Klancher
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2016年02月12日
In this important and innovative study, Jon Klancher shows how the Romantic age produced a new discourse of the 'Arts and Sciences' by reconfiguring the Enlightenment's idea of knowledge and by crea……続きを見る
著者:William H. Sherman
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2010年11月24日
In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue des……続きを見る
Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books have shaped their personal livesーin often unexpected ways.
In these thirteen strikingly candid interviews, bestselling authors, winners of the Pu……続きを見る
'He appears to be persecutor and I the persecuted: is not this difference the mere creature of the imagination?' Caleb is a guileless young servant who enters the employment of Ferdinando Falkland, ……続きを見る
El extranjero subrayado es una novela construida a partir de un compendio de relatos contados por un hombre, desde la cárcel, que se bifurcan con la intención de no contar el crímen cometido como si……続きを見る
The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figure……続きを見る
Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic and timele……続きを見る
著者:John Holloway
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年11月05日
First published in 1961.
Critiquing the critics, and examining the vocabulary of twentieth century criticism of the Shakespearean tragedies, John Holloway's book covers Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Kin……続きを見る
Anthony Trollope was among the most prolific, popular, and richly diverse writers of the mid-Victorian period, with forty-seven novels and a variety of other writings to his name. Both a serial and ……続きを見る
著者:Harold K. Bush
出版社: University of Alabama Press
発売日: 2008年02月15日
Discover the spiritual depths behind America’s greatest humorist.
Mark Twain is often pictured as a severe critic of religious piety, shaking his fist at God and mocking the devout. Such a view, how……続きを見る
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet although no other i……続きを見る
First published in Rome in 1535, Leone Ebreo's Dialogues of Love is one of the most important texts of the European Renaissance. Well known in the Italian academies of the sixteenth century, its pop……続きを見る
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge……続きを見る
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. From the beloved author of The Great Gatsby comes this razor-sharp satire on the excesses of the Jazz Age
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The Fairy Mythology ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE Romance and Superstition of Various Countries; BY Thomas Keightley.
Author of the Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy; Histories of Greece, Rome, England, a……続きを見る
著者:Mavis Gallant
出版社: New York Review Books
発売日: 2011年04月27日
Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place t……続きを見る
The Language of Gender and Class challenges widely-held assumptions about the study of the Victorian novel. Lucid, multilayered and cogently argued, this volume will provoke debate and encourage stu……続きを見る
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.
'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. ……続きを見る
Wycherley's four comedies are admired for their satirical wit, farcical humour, vivid characterization, and social criticism.Love in a Wood, a lively comedy of intrigue, established him as a brillia……続きを見る
`This time the fiction is founded upon facts' stated Wilkie Collins in his Preface to Man and Wife (1870). Many Victorian writers responded to contemporary debates on the rights and the legal status……続きを見る
著者:Judith Yaross Lee
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2012年11月07日
Samuel L. Clemens lost the 1882 lawsuit declaring his exclusive right to use "Mark Twain" as a commercial trademark, but he succeeded in the marketplace, where synergy among his comic journalism, li……続きを見る
著者:Ira Wells
出版社: University of Alabama Press
発売日: 2013年06月25日
An entirely new understanding of what literary naturalism is and why it matters
Ira Wells, countering the standard narrative of literary naturalism’s much-touted concern with environmental and philo……続きを見る
Um homem entra numa casa abandonada e, no fundo da sala, descobre um grande crucifixo de madeira. Sobre a cabeça macerada do Cristo, as traves podres do teto abriam uma larga fenda. Quando se prepar……続きを見る
著者:Zohar Shavit
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2005年02月22日
A Past Without Shadow examines 50 years of German children's books in which the darkest horrors of the Third Reich have routinely remained hidden. The horrors of the Third Reich are systematically s……続きを見る
George Steiner's Tolstoy or Dostoevsky has become a classic among scholars of Russian literature. An essay in poetic and philosophic criticism that bears mainly on the Russian masters, Tolstoy or Do……続きを見る