Polack Gillian Polack 
History and Fiction [EPUB ebook] 
Writers, their Research, Worlds and Stories

The influence of Cicero is everywhere to be found. His rhetorical and philosophical writings have made an inescapable impact on the history of western culture, impressing figures such as Augustine, J …

Faulkner »s final novel, The Reivers, has been gently dismissed by scholars and critics as no more than its subtitle claims, A Reminiscence. Although the new millennium has seen a new appreciation fo …

As long as there have been fans, there has been fan fiction. There seems to be a fundamental human need to tell additional stories about the characters after the book, series, play or movie is over. …

The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three volume …

This work, first published in 1919, is an endeavour to apply some of the methods of psychoanalysis to literature. It traces a writer’s books back to the outward and inner events of their life and to …

Since the first permanent English colony was established at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 and accounts of the new world started to arrive back on the English shores, English men and women have had a f …

Researchers have neglected the cultural history of education and as a result women »s educational works have been disparaged as narrowly didactic and redundant to the history of ideas. Mary Hilton »s …

As its compiler Thomas Bentley writes, The Monument of Matrones (1582) is a  »domesticall librarie plentifullie stored and replenished ». This 1500-page book is one of a long line of books of secular …

The result of extensive archival investigation, this meticulously researched book collects and describes for the first time the extant literary manuscripts and letters of the celebrated Bluestocking …

Exemplary Spenser analyses the didactic poetics of The Faerie Queene, renewing attention to its avowed attempt to ‘fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline’ and examining …