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A Doll's House - Cambridge Literature Series by Henrik Ibsen
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Cambridge Literature S.
Part of The Cambridge Literature Series: A collection of anthologies, resource and reference books, including titles from Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Alex Madina, Jo Phillips and Adrian Barlow.
Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein by Andrew Smith (Editor)
Category: Education | Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser.
The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein consists of sixteen original essays on Mary Shelley's novel by leading scholars, providing an invaluable introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical contexts. Theoretically informed but accessibly written, this volume relates Frankenstein to various soci ...Show more
The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature by M. O. Grenby (Editor); Andrea Immel (Editor)
Category: Reference | Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser.
Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. W ...Show more
The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory by Ellen Rooney (Editor)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser.
Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through ...Show more
The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin by Janet Beer (Editor)
Category: Reference | Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser.
Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with its frank depiction of the limits of marriage and moth ...Show more
The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy by Thea S. Thorsen (Editor)
Category: Reference | Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser.
In this volume leading international scholars offer a comprehensive, critical and engaging presentation of the genre of Latin love elegy. Opening with an outline of Greek elegy and Latin precursors, the volume challenges the conception of Gallus as the 'inventor' of Latin love elegy, highlights how Sulp ...Show more
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment by Louise Westling (Editor)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment is an authoritative guide to the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism. The collection traces the development of ecocriticism from its origins in European pastoral literature and offers fifteen rigorous but acce ...Show more
The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch by Albert Russell Ascoli (Editor); Unn Falkeid (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser.
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304-74), best known for his influential collection of Italian lyric poetry dedicated to his beloved Laura, was also a remarkable classical scholar, a deeply religious thinker and a philosopher of secular ethics. In this wide-ranging study, chapters by leading scholars view ...Show more
The Cambridge Companion to the Beats by Steven Belletto (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser.
The Cambridge Companion to the Beats offers an in-depth overview of one of the most innovative and popular literary periods in America, the Beat era. The Beats were a literary and cultural phenomenon originating in New York City in the 1940s that reached worldwide significance. Although its most well-kn ...Show more
The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative by H. Porter Abbott
Category: Education | Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature Ser.
What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction, now revised and expanded in its third edition, is in ...Show more
The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath by Jo Gill
Category: Classics | Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature Ser.
Sylvia Plath is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture. Her work has constantly remained in print in the UK and US (and in numerous translated editions) since the appearance of her first collection in 1960. Plath's own writing has been ...Show more
The Cambridge Introduction to T.S. Eliot by John X. Cooper
Category: Reference
T. S. Eliot is not only one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; as literary critic and commentator on culture and society, his writing continues to be profoundly influential. Every student of English must engage with his writing to understand the course of modern literature. This book ...Show more