This book is a collection of essays on ghostly fiction by Henry James. The contributors analyze James’s use of the...... more

The early modern period used to be known as the Age of Discovery. More recently, it has been troped ... more

Unprecedented in its range - extending from Venice to the New World and from the Holy Roman Empire t... more

The years 1969 and 1979 bookend a volatile decade in American history. As an articulate witness to t... more

After a childhood divided between America and Europe, Henry James settled with his family in New England, first in what...... more

Henry James was the final survivor of a remarkable family, and his memoir, written at the end of a long and tireless...... more

"A model reference work that can be used with profit and delight by general readers as well as by mo... more

Henry James: The Contemporary Reviews presents the most thorough gathering of newspaper and magazine reviews of James...... more

what it is that made Kelton its leading author. Editors Judy Alter and James Ward Lee gathered together a group of Kelton...... more

In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (1822-71), Robert S. Levine and Ivy G...... more

The spatial turn in recent discussions about the relevance of space and place in medieval lite... more

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literatu... more

Place, The Timeless People. James C. Hall is director of the New College at the University of Alabama. He is the author of...... more

Long misread as a novelist conspicuously lacking in historical consciousness, Henry James has often been viewed as...... more

Coinciding with the increasing intersections between visual and literary studies, this timely reappr... more

Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this pres... more

James Kelman is one of the most important Scottish writers now living. His fiction is widely acclaimed, and widely...... more

user-friendly annotated selection of key passages from the King James’s Bible clarifies the key themes, characters, stories and...... more

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) ... more

. James would have been attracted to the breadth of Map s referencing, and the author s light-hearted writing style which was...... more

twentieth anniversary edition of the Selected Poems of William Gilmore Simms, edited by James Everett Kibler, makes available...... more

perception that their work is to be taken less seriously than so-called literary fiction. The novels of James Lee Burke, one of...... more

This book represents the first comprehensive collection of contemporary reviews of the writing of Ed... more

This collection of comparative critical and theoretical essays examines James Baldwin and Toni Morrison’s reciprocal...... more

You Don’t Play With Revolution collects seven never-before-published lectures by Marxist cultural critic C.L.R. James...... more

Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the...... more

and power circulate in his texts. Enacting History in Henry James argues instead that James writing promises an...... more

In England at the turn of the nineteenth century, the advent of Romanticism coincided with major cha... more

Responding to the resurgence of interest in the Scottish working-class writer James Hogg, Sharon Alker and Holly Faith...... more

Richard III is one of the great Shakespearean characters and roles. James R Siemon examines the attraction of this...... more

Guide to James Baldwin focuses on the four tumultous decades that defined the great author’s life and art. Providing a...... more

Bookending the chronology of this collection are two crucial moments in the histories of pain, traum... more

This collection of new essays addresses a key debate in Irish studies. While it is important that ne... more

M. R. James (1862 1936) is probably best remembered as a writer of chilling ghost stories, but he was an outstanding...... more

Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the...... more

which James Joyce s work has been received, translated and published in different areas of Europe. Joyce is now widely...... more

One of the most admired and influential authors to work in and write about Appalachia, James Still excelled in every...... more

Memories of Jim Trisha ...a sensitive soul, talented in music and science, and very loving of animal... more

American psychologist and philosopher WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910), brother of novelist Henry James, was a groundbreaking...... more

. James Merrill himself once called his body of work "chronicles of love and loss," and in twenty books written over four...... more

voices of the Harlem Resaissance and a crucial literary figure of his time, James Weldon Johnson was also an editor...... more

G.W.M. Reynolds (1814-1879) had a major impact on the mid-Victorian era that until now has been larg... more

the fortunate accident of finding an ideal biographer in James Boswell. As Johnson’s constant and admiring companion...... more

Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johnson was a leading...... more

James Weldon Johnson is the editor of The Book of American Negro Poetry. Johnson compiled this work because it was his...... more

Volume four of the Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren covers a crucial time of personal and prof... more

This abridged edition of Haruo Shirane’s popular anthology, Early Modern Japanese Literature, retain... more

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading sk... more

Women’s literature. The essays on literature include James Machor on Melville’s short fiction, Kenneth Roemer on Edward...... more

The major work of German literature, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust (1808), was translated into ... more

Best known as the author of the acclaimed novel River of Earth (1940), Alabama native James Still is one of the most...... more

Take Their Advice: Camille Paglia . Wayne Koestenbaum . Jonathan Ames . Jennifer Belle . Howard Zinn... more

From examinations of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, The Litera... more

, given permission to return, opted instead to remain in Madrid and assist James Monroe in negotiations there. Monroe, who had...... more

This collection of essays offers an original look at Joyce s writing by placing his language at the ... more

A Historical Guide to James Fenimore Cooper features new critical essays by noted American literature scholars, Gerald...... more

A Historical Guide to James Fenimore Cooper features new critical essays by noted American literature scholars, Gerald...... more