Author: Jonathan FreedmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521499248
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A comprehensive collection of critical essays on the life and work of Henry James.
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James
Author: Jonathan FreedmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521499248
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A comprehensive collection of critical essays on the life and work of Henry James.
The Cambridge Companion to William James
Author: Ruth Anna PutnamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521459068
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The most convenient and accessible guide to James currently available.
The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists
Author: Timothy ParrishPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107013135
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.
The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists
Author: Michael BellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107493897
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A lively and comprehensive account of the whole tradition of European fiction for students and teachers of comparative literature, this volume covers twenty-five of the most significant and influential novelists in Europe from Cervantes to Kundera. Each essay examines an author's use of, and contributions to, the genre and also engages an important aspect of the form, such as its relation to romance or one of its sub-genres, such as the Bildungsroman. Larger theoretical questions are introduced through specific readings of exemplary novels. Taking a broad historical and geographic view, the essays keep in mind the role the novel itself has played in the development of European national identities and in cultural history over the last four centuries. While conveying essential introductory information for new readers, these authoritative essays reflect up-to-date scholarship and also review, and sometimes challenge, conventional accounts.
The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists
Author: Adrian PoolePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828118
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science
Author: Steven MeyerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108548075
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In 1959, C. P. Snow lamented the presence of what he called the 'two cultures': the apparently unbridgeable chasm of understanding and knowledge between modern literature and modern science. In recent decades, scholars have worked diligently and often with great ingenuity to interrogate claims like Snow's that represent twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and science as radically alienated from each other. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science offers a roadmap to developments that have contributed to the demonstration and emergence of reciprocal connections between the two domains of inquiry. Weaving together theory and empiricism, individual chapters explore major figures - Shakespeare, Bacon, Emerson, Darwin, Henry James, William James, Whitehead, Einstein, Empson, and McClintock; major genres and modes of writing - fiction, science fiction, non-fiction prose, poetry, and dramatic works; and major theories and movements - pragmatism, critical theory, science studies, cognitive science, ecocriticism, cultural studies, affect theory, digital humanities, and expanded empiricisms. This book will be a key resource for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduate students alike.
The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Kevin J. HayesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521797276
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American writers. The essays, specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates, examine all of Poe's major writings, his poetry, short stories and criticism, and place his work in a variety of literary, cultural and political contexts. They situate his imaginative writings in relation to different modes of writing: humor, Gothicism, anti-slavery tracts, science fiction, the detective story, and sentimental fiction. Three chapters examine specific works: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Raven', and 'Ulalume'. The volume features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.
The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic
Author: Jeffrey Andrew WeinstockPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107117143
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.
The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing
Author: Alfred BendixenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521861098
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A stimulating overview of American journeys from the eighteenth century to the present.
A Companion to Henry James
Author: Greg W. ZachariasPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111849234X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship on James’s writings available today. Provides an essential, up-to-date reference to the work and scholarship of Henry James Features the writing of a wide range of James scholars Places James’s writings within national contexts—American, English, French, and Italian Offers both an overview of contemporary James scholarship and a cutting edge resource for studying important individual topics