A short literary guide to one of this country’s greatest African American dramatists, August Wilson’s Twentieth-Century Cycle Plays: A Reader’s Companion will serve a wide range of students, teachers,...
Edited by Linda Dryden, Stephen Arata and Eric Massie
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780896726536
Pub Date: June 2009
The first book-length study to specifically examine the many intersections in the works of Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad, this volume extends the focus of current debate beyond the writers’ South Seas literature. Considering Stevenson and Conrad’s shared literary history and experience of Victorian London, it examines their convergence of styles in the emergent modernism of the fin de siècle, their romance and adventure modes, their fictions of duality, and their exploration of the human psyche. Moreover, the book recuperates Stevenson’s reputation as a serious writer, not only as Conrad’s antecedent and influence but as a writer equally worthy of study in these shared modes.
Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature
by Tom Lynch
Foreword by Scott Slovic
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9780896726383
Pub Date: November 2008
Examines works by such writers as Leslie Marmon Silko, Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, and others in the first systematically ecocritical study of multicultural literature of the American Southwest.
Imperialism, Hybridity, and the Postcolonial Aesthetic
by Tom Henthorne
Foreword by Andrea White
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9780896726338
Pub Date: July 2008
An exploration of Joseph Conrad’s use of multiple narrators, irony, free indirect discourse, and other devices now associated with modernism, as deliberate strategy to obfuscate his radical politics.
Vision, Illustration, and the Tradition of Cather and Austin
by Janis P. Stout
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9780896726109
Pub Date: June 2007
Picturing a Different West addresses Willa Cather and Mary Austin as central figures in a women’s tradition of the pictured West. Both Cather and Austin moved west in their youth and spent much of...
Discourses of the Other Sex in French Education, Medicine, and Medical Law, 1799-1815
by June K. Burton
Foreword by Susan Conner
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9780896725591
Pub Date: January 2007
Women under the Napoleonic regime have been largely neglected by historians. Through recovered discourses and other primary sources, in Napoleon and the Woman Question June K. Burton uncovers the strategies that Napoleonic women employed to control their lives. She begins with an analysis of Napoleon’s personal attitudes about the nature of women. He did not view them as weak vessels, but rather as industrious and strong, with an important role: as wives and mothers. She discusses France’s first national system of midwifery education, women’s issues in Napoleonic textbooks, the infanticide controversy, and the prevailing view of the relationship between the physical and the moral in feminine bodies and minds. In addition, she explores women’s medicine and surgery of the time with narratives from two patients, Adrienne Noailles Lafayette and Francis Burney d’Arblay. By clarifying the tensions and ambiguities of the Napoleonic period, Burton provides a nuanced approach to late-eighteenth-century and...
Jane Gilmore Rushing grew up in Pyron, a Texas town no longer in existence, and from childhood she knew that she would be a writer. In seven novels produced between 1963 and 1984, she built her stories...
Edited by Lou Halsell Rodenberger, Laura Butler and Jacqueline Kolosov
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9780896725485
Pub Date: May 2005
"Stories about family, legacy, marriage, divorce, religion, all of them played out in relentless weather and under an all-encompassing sky. . . . These female writers come from a storied place most...
Thespian Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
by Cheryl Wanko
Price: $37.50
ISBN: 9780896724990
Pub Date: June 2003
Celebrity biographies, with their stories of scandal, never fail to titillate. In fact, one would be hard pressed to find record of the best-seller list they didn't punctuate. But delving into professional...
During wartime, paranoia, gossip, and rumor become accepted forms of behavior and dominant literary tropes. The Peculiar Sanity of War examines the impact of war hysteria on definitions of sanity and...
