Literary Non-Fiction
Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the sharpness of his observation of people. They provide a vivid self-portrait of the man who, of all his contemporaries, seems to express attitudes and feelings most in tune with the twentieth century. In addition, they offer a mirror of his own time. This first collected edition of all Byron's known letters supersedes Prothero's i…
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Hughes (English, U. of Gloucestershire) reads canonical writers of the long 19th century in a critical mode that considers how writers use figurative, expressive, and narrative means to investigate the physical or emotional determinants of mind, as well as the social conditions of subjectification. He discusses Blake and music; Wordsworth and the walking self; Poe and resentment; Tennyson and femininity; feeling, subjectivity, and form in Charlotte Brontë's fiction; and visual inspiration…
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Byron's personal writings reveal vividly his family relationships, friendships, interests, and concerns
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This study—referred to as a "preface"—is given this designation because its basic aim is not to offer an up-to-date overall assessment of Dryden's translation of Virgil's Aeneid but, rather, to provide a relevant basis for such an assessment—thus allowing for a wide range of readership. The relevance of this approach rests on two basic premises: that of R. A. Brower, who maintains "that no translation can be understood or properly evaluated apart from the conditions of expr…
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'Between Two Worlds': Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume 7: 1820
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Byron's personal writings reveal vividly his family relationships, friendships, interests, and concerns
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'Born for Opposition': Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume 8: 1821
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Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the sharpness of his observation of people. They provide a vivid self-portrait of the man who, of all his contemporaries, seems to express attitudes and feelings most in tune with the twentieth century. In addition, they offer a mirror of his own time. This first collected edition of all Byron's known letters supersedes Prothero's i…
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'Elizabeth': The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden
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Traces the life of the popular, New Zealand-born novelist, describes her relationship with H.G. Wells and other writers of the day, and discusses each of her major works
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'Famous in My Time': Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume 2: 1810-1812
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Byron's personal writings reveal vividly his family relationships, friendships, interests, and concerns
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'Femme'nism and the Mexican Woman Intellectual from Sor Juana to Poniatowska: Boob Lit (Breaking Feminist Waves)
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"From poetry, short stories, plays, novels, photographs, personal correspondence, advertising, and interviews, Boob Lit. draws on both well-known and nearly forgotten materials to make visible the anti-feminine tendencies in femenism and to imagine a femmenism that might appeal to the startling numbers of young women in US and Mexican university classrooms today who do not self-identify as feminists. Catwoman, the cabrona, the diva-lectual, Barbie, the compulsory asexual, the clothes mind…
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An enchanting epistolary saga ends with the publication of this volume. 'For Freedom's Battle' contains the letters Byron wrote from Greece between August 1823 and April 9, 1824, ten days before his death. Also included are over fifty letters dating from 1807 to 1820 that have come to light since Leslie A. Marchand began this project ten years ago.In the letters from Greece a new set of correspondents appears, and a new tone is apparent. Although occasionally playful, Byron is preoccupied…
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'G' is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone
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Heroine of Sue Grafton novels.
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'Gypsies' In European Literature & Culture
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(Studies in European Culture & History). This collection investigates portrayals of 'Gypsies' across British, French, Italian, German, Finnish, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, & Russian cultures in canonical & nationally acclaimed texts, Holocaust survivor literature, films, & other accounts. This book exposes tensions between imagined 'Gypsies' & real Romanies & uncovers a kaleidoscope of Romani images that speak of alterity, exoticization, & idealization, as well as enmity, persecution, & hu…
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