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Reading “The Virginian” in the New West
$30.00Although the origins of the western are as old as colonial westward expansion, it was Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian, published in 1902, that established most of the now-familiar conventions…
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Recovering Ruth
$30.00The task of editing and annotating a nineteenth-century diary seemed straightforward at first, but as Robert Root assembled scattered fragments of lost history and immersed himself in background research, he…
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Renaissance Themes
$99.00These essays present a view of English literature and drama in a context of humane literary studies: a critical ambience harking back to the Renaissance. Arun Kumar Das…
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Sounds of Defiance
$24.95Language has frequently been at the center of discussions about Holocaust writing. Yet English, a primary language of neither the persecutors nor the victims, has generally been viewed as marginal…
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Story Logic
$29.95Featuring a major synthesis and critique of interdisciplinary narrative theory, Story Logic marks a watershed moment in the study of narrative. David Herman argues that narrative is simultaneously a cognitive style,…
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Switching Languages
$24.00Though it is difficult enough to write well in one’s native tongue, an extraordinary group of authors has written enduring poetry and prose in a second, third, or even fourth…
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The Age Of Voter Rage
$21.99Literary Nonfiction. Democracy is becoming a toxic environment, rife with trolls, bots, fake news and computational propaganda. Why, and what can be done? In this highly informative, engaging and readable…
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The Arthur of the French
$70.00This major reference work is the fourth volume in the series Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages. Principally focused on the production, dissemination, and evolution of Arthurian material from the…
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The Dark Matter of Words
$39.00Timothy Walsh’s study of the function and significance of absence in literature demonstrates its centrality in terms of both literary technique and philosophical consequence. Textual gaps, narrative lacunae, and strategic…