Walter Hugo G. Walter 
Sanctuaries in Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book [EPUB ebook] 
The Sketch Book

Turns a critical eye on Aesop“s Fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop“s portrayal of his animals. Despite originating more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop“s Fa …

In her timely contribution to revisionist approaches in modernist studies, Lorraine Sim offers a reading of Virginia Woolf“s conception of ordinary experience as revealed in her fiction and nonficti …

Women“s Experimental Writing considers six contemporary authors who use experimental methods and negative modes of critique in their fiction and feminism. The authors covered are Valerie Solanas, Ka …

Beginning with the premise that men and women of the Romantic period were lively interlocutors who participated in many of the same literary traditions and experiments, Fellow Romantics offers an ins …

This study of the many poets, musicians and visual artists portrayed or described in Shakespeare“s plays and poems reveals a fascination with art and its makers that continued to influence Shakespea …

First published in 1981. This study concentrates on the exponents of the central period of German Romanticism, regarding as characteristic the mode in which the poet’s self becomes active only in res …

This book tells the forgotten story of the Shakespeare Hut, a vast, mock-Tudor building for New Zealand Anzac soldiers visiting London on leave from the front lines. Constructed in Bloomsbury in 1916 …

Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance analyzes paradigmatic works of contemporary Native American/First Nations literary fiction using the tools of narrative theory. E …

Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, ‚The Death of the Author, ‚ argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation beca …

“Succeeds beautifully in discovering and entwining an entire tradition of speculative botany that will reshape plant studies and posthumanist theory.” —Stacy Alaimo, author of Exposed: Environmental …