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Imagined Cities : Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel
Robert Alter
Hardcover - $59.95
A literary investigation of how the modern metropolis--intoxicating, disturbing, powerful--changed perceptions and irrevocably altered the Western imagination.
Emile Zola : L'Assommoir
David Baguley
Paperback - $48.95
This is a new introduction to Zola's masterpiece, published amid controversy in 1876-7. L'Assommoir is analyzed as a social and political novel, as a representative work of literary naturalism, and in the context of its repercussions in the history o ...
Naturalist Fiction : The Entropic Vision
David Baguley
Paperback - $107.95
This is the first major study of naturalist fiction as a distinct literary genre. The author focuses mainly on French naturalist literature, but also draws examples from other national traditions, particularly from the English novel. Professor Bagule ...
Naturalist Fiction : The Entropic Vision
David Baguley
Hardcover - $254.95
This is the first major study of naturalist fiction as a distinct literary genre. The author focuses mainly on French naturalist literature, but also draws examples from other national traditions, particularly from the English novel. Professor Bagule ...
An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature
Roderick Beaton
Paperback - $157.95
This is a fully revised edition of Beaton's acclaimed 1994 introduction to the poetry and fiction published in Greece since national independence since 1821. It is the first full-length study to be devoted to the literature of this period seen as a w ...
Epistolary Fiction in Europe, 1500-1850
Thomas O. Beebee
Paperback - $107.95
Thomas O. Beebee offers a history of epistolary fiction as a major phenomenon practiced across Europe from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century. He shows how epistolary fiction appropriated the status and power the letter had already acquire ...
And Even Now
Max Beerbohm
Paperback - $33.95
These foreign fellows always are especially to be commended. By the mere mention of their names you evoke in reader or hearer a vague sense of your superiority and his. Thank heaven, we are no longer insular. I don't say we have no native talent. We ...
And Even Now
Max Beerbohm
Hardcover - $55.95
Yesterday I found in a cupboard an old, small, battered portmanteau which, by the initials on it, I recognised as my own property. The lock appeared to have been forced. I dimly remembered having forced it myself, with a poker, in my hot youth, after ...
And Even Now
Max Beerbohm
Paperback - $25.95
These foreign fellows always are especially to be commended. By the mere mention of their names you evoke in reader or hearer a vague sense of your superiority and his. Thank heaven, we are no longer insular. I don't say we have no native talent. We ...