Drawing together twelve essays on British Romantic authors and the theories underlying their modern editorial treatments, this book traces the continuing influence of Reiman's scholarly approaches in four key areas of study: print culture, editorial theory, the Shelley circle, and transmission/reception of Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings.
Strategies of Representation in Balzac, Flaubert, and James
This book brings the problem of reference-how language discloses the world-into contemporary critical debates about representation, and explores the potential of reference in the work of three authors in the realistic tradition: Balzac, Flaubert, and James. By defining realism in terms of linguistic practices instead of representational accuracy, ......
American Cheap 'Libraries', 'Railway' Libraries, and Some Literary Serie
This is the innovative, trail-blazing enquiry into the importance, range, and history of the publishers' series in America and in Britain, by the leading expert in this field.
The book offers new perspectives on works that were central to the visual and literary culture of the Anglo-American world-ephemeral print-but which have received little scholarly attention in the past.
From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic
This book presents the supernatural as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk characters, their literary representations, or popular media. Instead, we move around the world and into the twenty-first century, reshaping legends into a post-modern image that is psychologically and socially relevant.
From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic
This book presents the supernatural as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk characters, their literary representations, or popular media. Instead, we move around the world and into the twenty-first century, reshaping legends into a post-modern image that is psychologically and socially relevant.
Art, always a daughter of the Divine, has become estranged from her parent...We should not mock scientific materialism and naturalistic art. These have their place in human culture. But the starting point for a new life of art can come only through direct stimulation from the spiritual realm. We must become artists, not by developing symbolism or ......
Robert Ingersoll was America's finest orator and foremost leader of freethinkers. This author selected the best from speeches and essays of this iconoclastic orator who laboured to destroy the superstition and hypocrisy of fundamentalism in America and who answered the Moral Majority.
