Literary Studies

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The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 2

1881–1885

By George Gissing
Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young and Pierre Coustillas

For many years, the only Gissing letters available to the public were those in the modest selection of letters to his family published in 1927. In the following years a good number were published separately in such places as journals, memoirs, and sales catalogues, but like the single and small groups of unpublished letters scattered in libraries around the world, they remained in practical terms inaccessible.…

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The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 3On Sale

1886–1888

By George Gissing
Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young and Pierre Coustillas

For many years, the only Gissing letters available to the public were those in the modest selection of letters to his family published in 1927. In the following years a good number were published separately in such places as journals, memoirs, and sales catalogues, but like the single and small groups of unpublished letters scattered in libraries around the world, they remained in practical terms inaccessible.…


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The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 4On Sale

1889–1891

By George Gissing
Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young and Pierre Coustillas

Gissing's career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income. He wrote of poverty, socialism, class differences, social reform, and later on, about the problems of women and industrialization.…

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The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 5

1892-1895

By George Gissing
Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young and Pierre Coustillas

Gissing's career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income. He wrote of poverty, socialism, class differences, social reform, and later on, about the problems of women and industrialization.…


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The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 6

1895-1897

By George Gissing
Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young and Pierre Coustillas

Gissing's career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income. He wrote of poverty, socialism, class differences, social reform, and later on, about the problems of women and industrialization.…

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The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 7On Sale

1897–1899

By George Gissing
Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young and Pierre Coustillas

Gissing's career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income. He wrote of poverty, socialism, class differences, social reform, and later on, about the problems of women and industrialization.…


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The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 8

1900–1902

Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen
By George Gissing
Edited by Arthur C. Young and Pierre Coustillas

For many years, the only Gissing letters available to the public were those in the modest selection of letters to his family published in 1927. In the following years a good number were published separately in such places as journals, memoirs, and sales catalogues, but like the single and small groups of unpublished letters scattered in libraries around the world, they remained in practical terms inaccessible.…

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The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 9

1902–1903

Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen
By George Gissing
Edited by Arthur C. Young and Pierre Coustillas

This ninth volume concludes the widely-acclaimed edition of The Collected Letters of George Gissing, which not only renders obsolete all other collections and selections of his letters, but also contains a considerable quantity of hitherto unpublished or inaccessible materials.…


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Collected Poems 1953–1983

By Lucien Stryk

Lucien Stryk’s poetry is made of simple things—frost on a windowpane at morning, ducks moving across a pond, a neighbor’s fuss over his lawn—set into language that is at once direct and powerful.…

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Collected Short PlaysOn Sale

By James Schevill

In a time that emphasizes media spectaculars, the short play offers an exploration of minimal possibilities yet has the power to fix history in a moment's structure, a flash of revelation. The short play is a powerful and innovative theatrical medium, relying upon compression and clarity rather than amplification, and reducing character and action to a spare, dramatic core.…


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Collisions with HistoryOn Sale

Latin American Fiction and Social Science from “El Boom” to the New World Order

By Frederick M. Nunn

Latin American intellectuals have traditionally debated their region’s history, never with so much agreement as in the fiction, commentary, and scholarship of the late twentieth century. Collisions with History shows how “fictional histories” of discovery and conquest, independence and early nationhood, and the recent authoritarian past were purposeful revisionist collisions with received national versions.…

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Colonization, Violence, and Narration in White South African Writing

André Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, and J. M. Coetzee

By Rosemary Jane Jolly

The representation of pain and suffering in narrative form is an ongoing ethical issue in contemporary South African literature. Can violence be represented without sensationalistic effects, or, alternatively, without effects that tend to be conservative because they place the reader in a position of superiority over the victim or the perpetrator? Jolly looks at three primary South African authors—André Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, and J.…


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The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Edited by Thomas Lewis Morgan and Gene Andrew Jarrett

The son of former slaves, Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the most prominent figures in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Thirty-three years old at the time of his death in 1906, he had published four novels, four collections of short stories, and fourteen books of poetry, as well as numerous songs, plays, and essays in newspapers and magazines around the world.…


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The Complete Works of Robert Browning Volume VI

With Variant Readings and Annotations

By Robert Browning

 

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The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume X

With Variant Readings and Annotations

Edited by Allan C. and Susan E. Dooley

The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume X contains critical editions of Balaustion's Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides and Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society.…


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The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume XII

Edited by Rita Patterson
By Robert Browning
Edited by Paul Turner

A single work, the complex Aristophanes’ Apology (1875), comprises the twelfth volume of The Complete Works of Robert Browning. Second in Browning’s series of long narrative poems based on classical Greek materials, Aristophanes’ Apology begins as a further adventure of Browning’s young Greek heroine, Balaustion (previously encountered in Balaustion’s Adventure, in Volume X of the present edition).…

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The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume XIV

With Variant Readings and Annotations

By Robert Browning

 


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The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume XV

With Variant Readings and Annotations

Edited by Allan Dooley, David Ewbank, Jack W. Herring and Paul D. L. Turner
By Robert Browning

In the 1880s, the aging Browning showed once again the remarkable versatility of his lyric and narrative talents. Ranging across eras and cultures, the books here reveal his late thoughts about history, myth, legend, faith, love, and desire.…

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The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume XVI

With Variant Readings and Annotations

Edited by Susan Crowl, Roma A. King and Jr.
By Robert Browning

Robert Browning wrote Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day in his seventy-third year. The work is a capstone to the poet's long career, encompassing autobiography as well as influences bearing on the poet's life and career and on Victorian thought and culture in general.…



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