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  • Critical Reception of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    Laurence W Mazzeno
    Examines both academic and popular assessments of Conan Doyle’s work, giving pride of place to the Holmes stories and their adaptations, and also attending to the wide range of his published work. Twenty-first-century readers, television viewers, and moviegoers know Arthur Conan Doyle as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most recognizable fictional detective. Holmes’s...
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    117,08 €

  • Victorian Nonfiction Prose
    Kathy Rees / Laurence W. Mazzeno / Sue Norton
    The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology. Millions of texts emerged from a complex network of writers, editors, publishers and reviewers, to shape and be shaped by the dynamics of a rapidly industrializing society. Many of these works offer fundamental, often surprising insights into Victorian society. Why, for example, did the innocuously titled Essays...
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    88,02 €

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Laurence W. Mazzeno / Prentiss Clark / Sue Norton
    In his 1837 speech 'The American Scholar,' Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, 'life is our dictionary,' encapsulating a body of work that reached well beyond the American 19th century. This comprehensive study explores Emerson as a preacher, poet, philosopher, lecturer, essayist and editor. There are nearly 100 entries on individual texts and their personal, historical and literary ...
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    73,40 €

  • Walt Whitman
    John E. Schwiebert / Laurence W. Mazzeno / Sue Norton
    Walt Whitman created, in various editions of Leaves of Grass, what is arguably the most influential book of poems anywhere in the past 200 years. Whitman absorbed the world, transmuting it into poems that address a spectrum of topics--from democracy and religion to sexuality, gender, class, and identity. He exuberantly incarnated his epoch at the same time as he invoked 'you...
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    87,90 €

  • Emily Dickinson
    Ann Beebe / Laurence W. Mazzeno
    The public is familiar with the Emily Dickinson stereotype--an eccentric spinster in a white dress flitting about her father’s house, hiding from visitors. But these associations are misguided and should be dismantled. This work aims to remove some of the distorted myths about Dickinson in order to clear a path to her poetry. The entries and short essays should open avenues ...
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    73,38 €

  • Herman Melville
    Corey Evan Thompson / Laurence W. Mazzeno / Sue Norton
    This reference work covers both Herman Melville’s life and writings. It includes a biography and detailed information on his works, on the important themes contained therein, and on the significant people and places in his life. The appendices include suggestions for further reading of both literary and cultural criticism, an essay on Melville’s lasting cultural influence, a...
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    73,22 €

  • Alfred Tennyson
    Laurence W. Mazzeno / Sue Norton
    Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtually every poetic genre. Considered by his Victorian contemporaries the pre-eminent poet of the age, he has become a canonical figure who is widely read and studied today. Consequently, his poems appear on the syllabi of both survey courses in Victorian literature as well as upper-division an...
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    73,24 €

  • The Critics and Hemingway, 1924-2014
    Laurence W Mazzeno
    Hemingway burst on the literary scene in the 1920s with spare, penetrating short stories and brilliant novels. Soon he was held as a standard for modern writers. Meanwhile, he used his celebrity to create a persona like the stoic, macho heroes of his fiction. After a decline during the 1930s and 1940s, he came roaring back with The Old Man and the Sea in 1952. Two years later h...
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    32,66 €

  • James Lee Burke
    Laurence W. Mazzeno
    James Lee Burke is an acclaimed writer of crime novels in which protagonists battle low-life thugs who commit violent crimes and corporate executives who exploit the powerless. He is best known for his Dave Robicheaux series, set in New Orleans and the surrounding bayou country. With characters inspired by his own family, Burke uses the mystery genre to explore the nature of...
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    73,37 €

  • Jane Austen
    Laurence W. Mazzeno
    Among the most important English novelists, Jane Austen is unusual because she is esteemed not only by academics but by the reading public. Her novels continue to sell well, and films adapted from her works enjoy strong box-office success. The trajectory of Austen criticism is intriguing, especially when one compares it to that of other nineteenth-century English writers. At le...
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    32,85 €

  • The Critics and Hemingway, 1924-2014
    Laurence W. Mazzeno
    Hemingway burst on the literary scene in the 1920s with spare, penetrating short stories and brilliant novels. Soon he was held as a standard for modern writers. Meanwhile, he used his celebrity to create a persona like the stoic, macho heroes of his fiction. After a decline during the 1930s and 1940s, he came roaring back with The Old Man and the Sea in 1952. Two years later h...
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    117,31 €

  • Becoming John Updike
    Laurence W. Mazzeno
    When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary establishment were immediate and fulsome. However, no one reading reviews of Updike’s work in the late 1960s would have predicted that kind of praise for a man who was known then as a brilliant stylist who had nothing to say. What changed? Why? And what is likely to be his legacy? These are the questions that Becoming Jo...
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    33,03 €

  • The Dickens Industry
    Laurence W. Mazzeno
    Undoubtedly the best-selling author of his day and well loved by readers in succeeding generations, Charles Dickens was not always a favorite among critics. Celebrated for his novels advocating social reform, for half a century after his death he was ridiculed by those academics who condescended to write about him. Only the faithful band of devotees who called themselves Dicken...
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    32,79 €