Wallace Donald L. Wallace 
Embracing Democracy [EPUB ebook] 
Hermann Broch, Politics and Exile, 1918 to 1951

First published in 1991, Textual Communication examines the character and development of the novel from Richardson to Nabokov in relation to the printing and publishing industry. The book blends lite …

Marcus Gheeraerts’s portrait of a ’Persian lady’ – probably in fact an English lady in masquing costume – exemplifies the hybridity of early modern English culture. Her surrounding landscape and the …

This is the ideal guide for those studying contemporary fiction for the first time. The last twenty-five years have seen an explosion of new developments in the English language novel. Because of its …

‘My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I think… and I can’t stop myself from thinking.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea Writing the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to D …

This study examines Tennyson”s portrayals of the erotic and creative impulses, reading the poet”s ubiquitous lover-artists as tropes that figure the desire for transcending the state of being human …

‘Why do queer bachelors and homosexual desire haunt the works of the German writer W. G. Sebald (1944-2001)? In a series of readings of Sebald”s major texts, from ”After Nature” to ”Austerlitz”, …

Mark Edmundson finds in Walt Whitman s Song of Myself the evolution of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Breaking from the past literature he saw as feudal obsessed with the nob …

Written specifically with the student in mind and focusing on a number of well-known texts, including Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Nicholas Nickleby, Nice Work and The Color Purple, the contributions in …

Examines the complex relationship between the reality of the Palestinian minority in Israel and their literature through six novels, according to a literary communication model which enables Dr Taha …

In this comprehensive study of the genre, Don Scheese traces its evolution from the pastoralism evident in the natural history observations of Aristotle and the poetry of Virgil to current American w …