Leon Uris: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers)

The first full-length critical study of Leon Uris, who in eleven novels written over four decades, has chronicled the unceasing fight of dedicated individuals against the forces of oppression.

Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery Since Gone With the Wind (Southern Literary Studies)

A substantially new account of the development of American slavery fiction in the last century, Calls and Responses goes beyond merely exalting the expression of black voices and experiences and actually reconfigures the existing view of the American novel of slavery.

Bloom's How to Write About Tennessee Williams (Bloom's How to Write About Literature)

The unique How to Write about Literature series is designed to inspire students to write compelling essays on great authors and their works. Each invaluable title will encourage students' academic inquisitiveness and sharpen their critical-thinking skills.

The Meaning Of Shakespeare, Volume 1

In two magnificent and authoritative volumes, Harold C. Goddard takes readers on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his incomparable plays and unsurpassed literary genius. Goddard writes of Shakespeare with an unabashed love bordering on adoration. He was a Quaker who taught at Bryn Mawr, and his tone is that of a wise and affectionate teacher who would rather impart his enthusiasm than impose his ideas; he is fond of quoting William Blake’s saying that “enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge, and the last.” He never sounds academic.

Coleridge, Revision and Romanticism: After the Revolution, 1793-1818 (Continuum Literary Studies)

Ve-Yin Tee is Assistant Professor of British Literature at Nanzan University, Japan.

This title presents a cultural-materialist assessment of the after-effects of the French Revolution on English culture, using Coleridge as a case study. The Romantic phenomenon of multiple texts has been shaped by the link between revision and authorial intent. However, what has been overlooked are the profound implications of multiple and contradictory versions of the same text for a materialist approach; using the works of Coleridge as a case study and the afterlife of the French Revolution as the main theme, this monograph lays out the methodology for a more detailed multi-layered analysis.