Foreign Language Books

Provides an approach to spoken and written Irish with no prior knowledge of the language required. This book provides a pronunciation guide and an appendix on dialectal differences within Irish. It includes exercises with illustrations and a combination of language points, dialogues and cultural information. more...

Price: $23.95

This work explores a range of images and texts that shed light on the complexity of the European reception and interpretation of the New World. more...

Price: $75.00

During the late 1940’s and 1950’s, argues David Savran, the baiting and brutalization of “communists and queers” were high on the national agenda. Within this historical context, Communist, Cowboys, and Queers offers a bold and radical reassessment of the works of theater’s most prominent and respected figures - Arthur Miller, the alleged communist, and Tennessee Williams, the self-acknowledged “queer.”Savran analyzes the radically different configurations of gender and sexuality in Miller’s and Williams’s writings and studies the ways in which each confronted and negotiated the postwar homophobic and anticommunism crusades. Through a detailed reexamination of their plays, films, and short stories, Savran argues against the popular images of both playwrights and the findings of most academic critics. Ultimately, his provocative exploration of the constitution of the Old Left, the demographic changes following World War II, the gay rights movement, the New Left, and the counterculture distinguishes Communists, Cowboys, and Queers as the first book rigorously to historicize the achievements of Miller and Williams. more...

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A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens’s world.:.; Puts Dickens’s work into its literary, historical, and social contexts.; Traces the development of Dickens’s career as a journalist and novelist.; Includes original essays by leading Dickensian scholars on each of Dickens’s fifteen novels.; Explores a broad range of topics, including criticisms of his novels, the use of history and law in his fiction, language, and the effect of political and social reform.; Examines Dickens's legacy and surveys the mass of secondary materials that has been generated in response and reverence to his writing more...

Price: $190.00

This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing.:.; Brings together more than twenty leading international scholars to provide the definitive survey volume to the field of early modern women's writing.; Examines individual texts, including works by Mary Sidney, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn.; Explores the historical context and generic diversity of early modern women's writing, as well as the theoretical issues that underpin its study.; Provides a clear sense of the full extent of women's contributions to early modern literary culture more...

Price: $55.00