Literary Criticism

A Companion to American Fiction 1780-1865 presents current critical responses to the broad range of American fiction written from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. The volume features contributions from over 35 leading international critics and scholars, who offer a cultural and historical context that serves to illuminate the fiction. The Companion covers both less well-known writers, such as Lydia Maria Child and George Lippard, and canonical authors, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Contributors demonstrate how these authors present conflicts about territory and sovereignty and questions of gender, race, ethnicity, and identity. 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...

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This Companion offers a thorough, concise overview of the emerging field of humanities computing.:.; Contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field.; Addresses the central concerns shared by those interested in the subject.; Major sections focus on the experience of particular disciplines in applying computational methods to research problems; the basic principles of humanities computing; specific applications and methods; and production, dissemination and archiving.; Accompanied by a website featuring supplementary materials, standard readings in the field and essays to be included in future editions of the Companion. more...

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This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference.:.; Provides new perspectives on established texts.; Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions.; Pioneered by leading scholars.; Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies.; Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints. more...

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A Companion to Literature and Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them. Twenty-five essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations. Contributors explore, in a highly innovative and groundbreaking way, important topics in the field. These include:. * Key issues such as dialogism, hidden intertextuality, and adaptation as readings, critiques, and rewritings of source novels. * Cultural concerns including iconophobia and the word/image wars. * Theoretical issues such as "transecriture" and "intermediality". * Genre topics including "hagiopic" and the apocalyptic film. * The relationship with other media, including photography and painting. * Consideration of format, including seriality, and diverse source material. * Thematic subjects such as hetero-masculinity in The Talented Mr Ripley and libertinage in the work of Eric Rohmer. The combination of theory and sophisticated readings of novels and adaptations adds up to a tour de force that reshapes and reconfigures the very field of literature and film studies. more...

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