Armbruster (English, Suffolk U.) examines the home lives of four major American authors whose writing was dominated by the consumer and materialistic culture that followed the Civil War. She covers Ha
Svarta fanor was the last major satirical novel by Swedish playwright and novelist Strindberg (1849-1912), and though completed by 1904, could find no publisher until 1907. An American scholar of Scan
Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 1976 by Africana women writers. From a cross-cultural, transnati
Across the years there has been a certain amount of fascination reserved for the Melville creation of Billy Budd. Budd was the ultimate victim, and the innocent unworthy of any part of his sentence; t
American poet, photographer, and literary scholar Eisenhower traces the role of invective in literature from Virgil to the present. The derogation of colleagues, schools of thought, or styles of writi
