Combines historical research with a literary understanding of Mary Shelley to trace the influence of social and political factors on the writer's life and career
With The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice, Charles E. May, a foremost authority on the genre, contributes a major effort to examine the history and characteristics of the short story from a critic
Celebrated as "Hollywood's greatest year," 1939 has often been considered the apex of the studio system and the movies it produced, including Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach, Mr. Smit
Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, Thirty-Fifth Edition, now includes more than 25,000 citations, dealing with more than 1,100 business, financial, and industrial topics. The subjects cover
Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright featured, a full range of critical opinion is presented, along with a biographical sket
Unlocking Current Issues provides students with foundational knowledge of a topic. Each title presents the evolution of the topic, with a focus on providing historical evidence of key moments in the
Following the format of the series, this volume presents entries on 27 notable American playwrights written by scholars of their works, with lengthy summaries of the plays and films and their receptio
Critic Stark Young balances the spare work of Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms with the energy of the adaptation by Laurence Stallings, to the benefit of the latter. Leslie Fiedler call's out Wi
Career biographies of 41 writers who were not associated primarily or exclusively with the Concord or Boston and Cambridge literary communities, but flourished in New England in the middle 19th centur
"Conceived and produced in association with the Renaissance society of America, this work presents a panoramic view of the cultural movement and the period of history beginning in Italy from approxima
With George Gissing, Revised Edition - a comprehensive revision of his well-received 1983 volume - Robert L. Selig provides the first book-length study to survey the totality of Gissing's contribution
In the familiar and distinguished DLB format, presents contextual career biographies and appraisals of 24 poets, all born after the death of Queen Anne in August 1714, and with publishing careers rang
