Includes entries for a variety of novels, containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpts, and an original
Resource mobilization theory is the tool the author uses to examine the history of the movement to grant clemency to women jailed for killing or assaulting the men who abused them. Countering the view
Includes entries for a variety of novels, containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpts, and an original
Offers a criticial introduction to the life and career of the English Renaissance writer, responsible for the work entitled "The Compleat Angler," which has almost never been out of print since 1623
A collection of 18 essays generated over the past 15 years, including four new ones and one translated especially for the volume, on English writer Stern (1713-68), who remains nearly as controversial
Landsman (history, State U. of New York-Stony Brook) examines the submerged changes in British American colonial culture during a period in which history textbooks can find few actual events to report
Assembles reactions to the work of American poet, songwriter, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and autobiographer Johnson (1871- 1938), best known for his Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (191
Includes entries for thirty novels, containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpts, and an original critic
Includes entries for thirty novels, containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpts, and an original critic
Includes entries for forty short stories containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpt, and an original cr
Includes entries for forty short stories containing biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpt, and an original cr
During World War I, an international group of young artists and writers fled to Zurich, in neutral Switzerland. In reaction to the horror of the war and the onslaught of new technology, as well as to
Long of interest to literary scholars as the sister of Henry Fielding and the friend of Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding (1710-1768) was also a popular and innovative writer in her own right. In her
World War II stands, for most Americans, as the "good" war; it was a necessary war fought for a just cause. Yet more than 40,000 American men refused to fight the war. Citing principled opposition, th
In War and Peace: Tolstoy's Mirror of the World, author Rimvydas Silbajoris explores the thesis that Tolstoy's landmark is indeed a statement about life in its totality, as if the earth were a unified
In some ways prefiguring the dramas in its creator's life, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a fictional model of the moral contradictions pervading late Victorian society. Oscar Wilde's Faustian tale of
In one of the few contemporary studies of Nobel laureate Elias Canetti's life and works available in English, Thomas Falk clearly sets forth the author's contribution to twentieth-century thought and
Lauber illuminates for general readers and students new to her work each of the six novels Austen (1775-1817) completed Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion,
Provides current information on over 24,000 publishers and distributors in an A-Z arrangement first by publishers, then by distributors.Publishers Directory entries contain full organization contact i
Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, ma
Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, ma
Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, ma
Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, ma
Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, ma
Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, ma
Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, ma
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Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, ma
Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, ma
Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, ma
Each volume of Contemporary Black Biography contains at least 65 full-length biographies written in an easy-to-follow prose style, ranging from two to four pages each. Arranged alphabetically, entri
Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, ma
International Research Centers Directory provides unparalleled access to government, university, independent, nonprofit and commercial research and development activities in countries worldwide. Entri
