eBooks List For Item Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
George Eliot and the British Empire (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
- ISBN:
- 0521808456
- Authors:
- Nancy Henry
In this innovative study Nancy Henry introduces new facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. She examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks, a parent to emigrant sons, and a reader of colonial literature. She highlights the importance of these contexts to our understanding of Eliot's fiction and her position within Victorian culture. The book...
So You Think You Know Thomas Hardy?: A Literary Quizbook (Oxford World's Classics)
- ISBN:
- 019280443X
- Authors:
- John Sutherland
How well do you really know your favourite author? Ace literary detective turned quizmaster John Sutherland challenges the reader to find out. Starting with easy, factual questions that test how well you remember a novel and its characters, the quiz progresses to a level of greater difficulty, demanding close reading and interpretative deduction. What really motivates the characters, and what is going on beneath the surface of the story? From...
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oxford World's Classics)
- ISBN:
- 0192807293
- Authors:
- Oscar Wilde
Since its first publication in 1890, Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, has remained the subject of critical controversy. Acclaimed by some as an instructive moral tale, it has been denounced by others for its implicit immorality. After having his portrait painted, Dorian Gray is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary friend, decadent friend Lord Henry Wotton, he wished to stay young forever and pledges his...
Metaphysics of the Profane: The Political Theology of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem
- ISBN:
- 0231126573
- Authors:
- Eric Jacobson
Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most famous and influential Jewish thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, and their late work is well known. The importance of the intense intellectual partnership they forged in the years between the First World War and 1923, however, is less appreciated and understood. The meeting of these extraordinary minds produced a dynamic body of ideas that has had a lasting impact on...
Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O'Brien (Irish Studies in Literature and Culture)
- ISBN:
- 0299216349
Since the 1960 publication of her first novel, The Country Girls , award-winning Irish writer Edna O'Brien has been both celebrated and maligned. Praised for her lyrical prose and vivid female characters and attacked for her frank treatment of sexuality and alleged sensationalism, O'Brien and her work seem always to spawn controversy, including the past banning in Ireland of several of her works. O'Brien's attention to "women's" concerns...
Writing Desire: Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
- ISBN:
- 0299222047
- Authors:
- Bertram Cohler
Exploring nearly sixty years of memoir and autobiography, Writing Desire examines the changing identity of gay men writing within a historical context. Distinguished scholar and psychoanalyst Bertram J. Cohler has carefully selected a diverse group of ten men, including historians, activists, journalists, poets, performance artists, and bloggers, whose life writing evokes the evolution of gay life in twentieth-century America. ...
Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics
- ISBN:
- 0300108869
- Authors:
- Nina L. Khrushcheva
Vladimir Nabokov’s “Western choice”—his exile to the West after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution—allowed him to take a crucial literary journey, leaving the closed nineteenth-century Russian culture behind and arriving in the extreme openness of twentieth-century America. In Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics , Nina L. Khrushcheva offers the novel hypothesis that because of this journey, the works of...
Wizard!: Harry Potter's Brand Magic (Great Brand Stories series)
- ISBN:
- 1904879306
- Authors:
- Stephen Brown
Harry Potter may not be the biggest brand in the world, or the most venerable, but his story is one of the most dramatic. This book tells the story of the Harry Potter brand and how it has taken the entertainment world by storm. Joanne K Rowling and her fabulous money-spinning creation is a contemporary fairytale, a 21st century version of the classic cornucopian chronicle. An impoverished single parent pens an accidental bestseller, which grows...
Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America
- ISBN:
- 0801885507
- Authors:
- Deborah Clarke
Over the years, cars have helped to define the experiences and self-perceptions of women in complex and sometimes unexpected ways. When women take the wheel, family structure and public space are reconfigured and re-gendered, creating a context for a literary tradition in which the car has served as a substitute for, an escape from, and an extension of the home, as well as a surrogate mother, a financial safeguard, and a means of...
Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America
- ISBN:
- 0801886171
- Authors:
- Deborah Clarke
Over the years, cars have helped to define the experiences and self-perceptions of women in complex and sometimes unexpected ways. When women take the wheel, family structure and public space are reconfigured and re-gendered, creating a context for a literary tradition in which the car has served as a substitute for, an escape from, and an extension of the home, as well as a surrogate mother, a financial safeguard, and a means of...
Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters
- ISBN:
- 1852854235
- Authors:
- Leslie Mitchell
After a prolific life as an author with a European reputation, outselling Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton was ennobled and, on his death, buried in Westminster Abbey. Since World War I, however, his literary reputation has sunk and he is now little read. Bulwer Lytton is the first modern biography of an extraordinary man whose literary output was prodigious. Leslie Mitchell’s biography, written to mark the two hundredth anniversary of Bulwer...
Watercolor Workshop II (Simple Steps to Success)
- ISBN:
- 0756628571
- Authors:
- Glynis Barnes-Mellish
For budding artists who completed the exercises in DK's Watercolor Workshop , here are twelve new and inspiring projects designed to help artists improve their skills and further develop their own style.
Crafts To Make In Spring (Crafts for All Seasons)
- ISBN:
- 0761303162
- Authors:
- Kathy Ross
Presents twenty-nine easy-to-make craft projects with springtime themes, including cotton swab pussy willows, a robin redbreast door hanging, and an Easter bunny egg holder.
Crafts To Make In The Winter (Ross, Kathy, Crafts for All Seasons.)
- ISBN:
- 0761303197
- Authors:
- Kathy Ross
Presents instructions for creating twenty-nine craft projects with a winter or holiday theme, including a confetti noise maker, Christmas candy ornament, baggy snowman, lace snowflake, bird valentine, and more.
Flaubert's Tentation: Remapping Nineteenth-Century French Histories of Religion and Science
- ISBN:
- 0199258589
- Authors:
- Mary Orr
This is the first comprehensive study in English of Flaubert's least well-known masterpiece, the final version of his Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874) which, thanks to Foucault, has the reputation of being an arcane and erudite "fantastic library" or, thanks to genetic criticism, is a "narrative" of Flaubert's personal aesthetic ("oeuvre de toute ma vie"). By presuming instead no prior knowledge of the text, its versions or its contexts, Mary...
Curtius Rufus, Histories of Alexander the Great, Book 10 (Clarendon Ancient History Series) (Bk. 10)
- ISBN:
- 0199557624
- Authors:
- J. E. Atkinson
This book presents a translation, with commentary, of a major Roman source on the end of the reign of Alexander the Great. Book 10 of Curtius' Histories covers the reign of terror and mutiny that followed upon Alexander's return from India; and offers the fullest account of the power struggle that began in Babylon immediately after his death. The Introduction establishes a profile of Curtius Rufus (quite probably a Roman Senator of the first...
Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion (Crime Files)
- ISBN:
- 0230525016
- Authors:
- Richard York
How cozy are Agatha Christie's novels? They may seem to depict a stable world of respect for tradition, shared culture, settled gender and class roles, political conservatism and unambiguous morality, in which reason suffices to control disorder. But this world is threatened by modernity and uncertainty: war, social mobility, extremist politics, moral liberalization. Prominent citizens may be criminals, detectives are not wholly unlike...
Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets
- ISBN:
- 0231134142
- Authors:
- William Deresiewicz
-- Terry Castle, Stanford University
Virginia Woolf's Novels and the Literary Past
- ISBN:
- 0748623493
- Authors:
- Jane de Gay
This book argues that Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past had a profound impact on the content and structure of her novels.It analyses Woolf's reading and writing practices via her essays, diaries and reading notebooks in order to provide a framework for examining her response to the literary past. It presents chronological studies of eight novels, exploring how Woolf's intensive reading surfaced in her fiction. The book sheds light on...
Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction: A Critical Study
- ISBN:
- 0748632654
- Authors:
- Sophie Gilmartin, Rod Mengham
This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West...
Watercolor Workshop (PRACTICAL ART)
- ISBN:
- 0756619378
- Authors:
- Glynis Barnes-Mellish
Featuring essential techniques, warm-up exercises and inspiring projects with close-up, step-by-step photography and clear, encouraging text, this book is perfect for those who have always wanted to learn to paint with watercolors but don't know where to start.
Ancient Greece (DK/Google E.guides)
- ISBN:
- 0756619564
- Authors:
- Peter Chrisp
Each of these richly illustrated, fact-packed guides has its very own Web site, maintained by DK and Google, providing readers with a continually updated library of links to supplement the information in the book with the best of the Net.
Superfoods
- ISBN:
- 0756621151
- Authors:
- Michael Van Straten, Barbara Griggs, Kareen Taylerson, John Langdon-Davies
The perfect one-stop resource for anyone who wants to eat well and live well, this book is both a comprehensive guide to healing foods and a stunning collection of mouthwatering recipes. This updated and expanded edition of the classic Superfoods takes the reader on a culinary tour of the most nutritious foods on the planet, and offers advice on the healthiest foods to eat.
Weather (Dk Guide)
- ISBN:
- 0756622298
- Authors:
- Michael Allaby
These large-format guides to favorite non-fiction subjects have a whole new appeal in paperback. With brand-new covers and all the best science inside, they're sure to earn a prized spot in home libraries.
The Art of Digital Photography
- ISBN:
- 0756623545
- Authors:
- John Hedgecoe
Easy-to-understand, and packed with both technical instructions and creative ideas, celebrated author and photographer John Hedgecoe walks you through the world of digital photography and shares his considerable expertise on this ever-changing medium.
Go Scuba Dive (GO SERIES)
- ISBN:
- 0756626277
- Authors:
- Monty Halls
For anyone inspired by the movies "Step into Liquid" or "Riding Giants" to pick up a surf board and catch some waves, this step-by-step book and DVD package gets readers on the fast track to mastering the surf.
Virginia Woolf (Authors in Context) (Oxford World's Classics)
- ISBN:
- 0192802348
- Authors:
- Michael Whitworth
During Virginia Woolf's lifetime Britain's position in the world changed, and so did the outlook of its people. The Boer War and the First World War forced politicians and citizens alike to ask how far the power of the state extended into the lives of individuals; the rise of fascism provided one menacing answer. Woolf's experiments in fiction, and her unique position in the publishing world, allowed her to address such intersections of the...
The Brontes (Authors in Context) (Oxford World's Classics)
- ISBN:
- 0192840355
- Authors:
- Patricia Ingham
The extraordinary creativity of the Bronte sisters, who between them wrote some of the most enduring fiction in the English language, continues to fascinate and intrigue modern readers. The tragedy of their early deaths adds poignancy to their novels, and in the popular imagination they have become mythic figures. And yet, as Patricia Ingham shows, they were fully engaged with the world around them, and their writing, from the juvenilia to Jane...
Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Casebook (Casebook in Contemporary Fiction)
- ISBN:
- 0195107969
With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work's historical...
Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1815-1914 (Financial History)
- ISBN:
- 185196892X
- Authors:
- Ranald C. Michie
This is an engaging socio-cultural study of the place occupied by the City of London within British cultural life during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Michie interrogates the dialectic nature of two traditional views of the City as a global financial centre: London as a theatre of corruption, fraud and scandal; and as a place of unbridled success and power for the ambitious elite. Rather than rely on the opinion of orthodox figures...
Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997
- ISBN:
- 1550022792
In 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. That novel, Dracula , has gone on to become perhaps the most influential novel of all time. To commemorate the centennial of that great novel, Carol Margaret Davison has brought together this collection of essays by some of the world's leading scholars. The essays analyze Stoker's original novel and celebrate its legacy in popular culture. The continuing...
Mark Twain Speaking
- ISBN:
- 1587294680
Originally published in 1976 and reissued in 2006 after many years out of print, Mark Twain Speaking assembles Twain's lectures, after-dinner speeches, and interviews from 1864 to 1909. Explanatory notes describe occasions, identify personalities, and discuss techniques of Twain's oral craftsmanship. A chronology listing date, place, and title of speech or type of engagement completes the collection.
Benjamin Franklin (Bloom's Classic Critical Views)
- ISBN:
- 1604131357
Benjamin Franklin was one of the most dynamic figures in early American history, publishing "Poor Richard's Almanac" as well as several other works. When not writing or editing, Franklin conducted scientific experiments, established many local and national institutions, and led diplomatic missions. This new volume in the "Bloom's Classic Critical Views" series features compelling essays from the 19th and 20th centuries that give students...
Truck of Fools: A Testimonio of Torture and Recovery
- ISBN:
- 0826514642
- Authors:
- Carlos Liscano
The testimonio of one of Latin America’s leading writers, Truck of Fools is a searing personal account of incarceration and torture. It recalls the author’s thirteen years as a political prisoner of Uruguay’s neofascist regime during the 1970s and 1980s. An acutely perceptive poet-novelist, Carlos Liscano offers unique insight into not only the physical and psychological plight of the prisoner but also the mindset of his tormentors. ...
Memory Management for Synthesis of DSP Software
- ISBN:
- 0849337526
- Authors:
- Praveen K. Murthy, Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya
Although programming in memory-restricted environments is never easy, this holds especially true for digital signal processing (DSP). The data-rich, computation-intensive nature of DSP makes memory management a chief and challenging concern for designers. Memory Management for Synthesis of DSP Software focuses on minimizing memory requirements during the synthesis of DSP software from dataflow representations. Dataflow representations are used...
Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies
- ISBN:
- 1403904049
Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies is an indispensable guide to the ever-expanding body of criticism on Virginia Woolf. Written for both researchers and teachers of Woolf, it includes comprehensive and insightful chapters on different approaches to Woolf, including feminist, historicist, postcolonial and biographical. The contributors to the collection are all scholars of international standing, and the essays provide concise summaries...
Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader
- ISBN:
- 1403969655
- Authors:
- Anne E. Fernald
From her girlhood in her father’s library to the end of her life, Virginia Woolf read widely and with passion. Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader shows how Virginia Woolf’s reading affected her feminism and how her feminism affected her opinions of her reading. This new work looks at the impact of that intense reading on Woolf’s writing and on her feminism. Each chapter looks at an aspect of her thinking--her attitude towards the...
Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma
- ISBN:
- 1403974829
- Authors:
- Patricia Moran
Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma studies the intersections of modernism, sexuality, and subjectivity in the work of two leading women modernists. Over the course of her writing career, each came to confront those aspects of her culture and her personal history that resulted in a degraded sense of female sexuality. In particular, both explored the ways in which traumatic childhood sexual experiences informed their...
The Betrayal of Dissent: Beyond Orwell, Hitchens and the New American Century
- ISBN:
- 0745321984
- Authors:
- Scott Lucas
Since his death in 1950, George Orwell has been canonised as England's foremost political writer, and the standard-bearer of honesty and decency for the honourable 'Left'. In this controversial polemic, Scott Lucas argues that the exaltation of Orwell, far from upholding dissent against the State, has sought to quash such opposition. Indeed, Orwell has become the icon of those who, in the pose of the contrarian, try to silence public opposition...
Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time
- ISBN:
- 0521003881
- Authors:
- Mary Waldron
This book presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator. It explores the nature of her confrontation with the popular novelists of her time, and demonstrates how her challenge to them transformed fiction. Mary Waldron shows how Austen's novels exemplify the strong skepticism about contemporary notions of the proper content and purpose of fiction that is evident from family letters and other sources. In thus identifying her literary motivation,...