Collected Tales and Stories with original engravings
''Beyond question Shelley scholars and 19th-century specialists will value this usefully annotated and carefully produced edition; it may also be that anyone would enjoy the stories themselves . . . and the accompanying original engravings.''--Diane Johnson, Washington Post.
The term American Renaissance designates a period in our nation's history when the literary ''classics'' appeared--works ''original'' enough to mark a beginning for America's literary history. But the American Renaissance, Donald Pease argues in his introduction, does not belong to the nation's secular history so much as it denotes a rebirth from ......
Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology
The Gothic novel emerged out of the romantic mist alongside a new conception of the home as a separate sphere for women. Looking at novels from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Kate Ferguson Ellis investigates the relationship between these two phenomena of middle-class culture--the idealization of the home and ......
''One of the finest - and most unaccountably neglected - of Chicago novels by and about women. The book is strongly feminist in tone and message. . . . also a fine work of literature.''--Robert Bray, A Reader's Guide to Illinois Literature
''This book has proved for me the best edition of Poe's short fiction for classroom use. Its best feature, among many good ones, is its ample annotations. Those annotations, indispensable for such an allusive author as Poe, illuminate the text at every turn. I heartily recommend it to teachers and students alike.''--Sidney P. Moss, professor ......
Published in hardcover in 1965 and long out of print, this lively and accurate adventure tale is now available in paperback for the first time. As a fictionalized account of life on the Chesapeake Bay at the turn of the century, ''Run to the Lee'' has the same appeal to all ages as Gilbert Byron's own beloved novel, ''The Lord's Oysters''.
This massive annotated bibliography of all known significant eyewitness accounts of 19th-century central overland travel fills a conspicuous gap in historical literature, and will greatly accelerate future research, writing, and collecting in this important phase of western Americana. Platte River Road Narratives includes not only all identifiable ......
