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Author: Michael David Sollars Publisher: ISBN: 9780816073795 Category : Characters and characteristics in literature Languages : en Pages : 0
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Dictionary of Literary Characters is a stunning, five-volume set containing descriptions of more than 40,000 characters in great literary works from the United States, Britain, and around the world. The wide assortment of characters featured in this comprehensive work are compiled from novels, short stories, and plays ranging from such ancient classics as Sophocles' Antigone to 21st-century prizewinners such as Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex. No other reference work covers such an extensive assortment of characters from so many different works of literature. Appendixes include alphabetical lists of authors and literary works covered in the set.
Author: Una McGovern Publisher: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers ISBN: 9780550101273 Category : American literature Languages : en Pages : 0
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This new edition of Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters has been revised and expanded to bring it thoroughly up to date. More than 6,500 entries provide a guide to the wealth of characters created by writers in English -- from the Wife of Bath to Bertie Wooster, from Tom Sawyer to Harry Potter. New features include concise biographies of the authors, entertaining essays on such topics as "The Detective in Fiction" and "The Characters of Charles Dickens," andan appendix of literary awards.
Author: Marilyn D. Button Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313388725 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 224
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While England has been strengthened by a proud isolationism, she has simultaneously been enriched by the economic, social, and political complexities that have emerged as people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds have moved within her borders, or when her own citizens have emigrated among those foreigners to live or rule. This book explores the foreign element in English culture and the attempt by English writers from the early 19th to the mid 20th century to portray their complex and often ambiguous responses to that doubly foreign element among them: the foreign woman. While being foreign may begin with national or ethnic difference, the contributors to this book expand it to include other forms of alienation from a dominant culture, resulting from gender, race, class, ideology, or temperament. The many factors shaping English national identity—including British imperialism, immigration patterns, English family and social structures, and English common law—have been shaped by gender-related issues. Though not a prominent literary figure, the foreign woman in England has received increasingly critical attention in recent years as a psychological and sociological phenomenon. By beginning with Byron in the early 19th century and concluding with Lawrence Durrell in the 20th century, this study contributes to a more comprehensive vision of the foreign woman as she is portrayed by a number of British authors, including Shelley, Wordsworth, Charlotte Bronté, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, and Anita Brookner.
Author: American BookWorks Corporation Publisher: ISBN: Category : American fiction Languages : en Pages : 362
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Contains alphabetically arranged entries that describe major characters from significant American novels, arranged chronologically from 1789 through 1960.
Author: John R. Greenfield
Author: John R. Greenfield
Author: John R. Greenfield
Author: Michael David Sollars
Author: Una McGovern
Author: Georges Auguste Connes
Author: William Freeman
Author: Alexander John Philip
Author: Marilyn D. Button
Author: American BookWorks Corporation
Author: Samuel Austin Allibone