Catalog Search Results
2) Understanding the Scarlet letter: a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents
Author
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Series
Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"This volume sets Marcel Proust's masterwork, À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913-27), in its cultural and socio-historical contexts. Essays by the leading scholars in the field attend to Proust's biography, his huge correspondence, and the genesis and protracted evolution of his masterpiece. Light is cast on Proust's relation to thinkers and artists of his time, and those of the great French and European traditions of which...
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Franz Kafka (1883-1924) lived through one of the most turbulent periods in modern history, witnessing a world war, the dissolution of an empire and the foundation of a new nation state. But the early twentieth century was also a time of social progress and aesthetic experimentation. Kafka's novels and short stories reflect their author's keen but critical engagement with the big questions of his time, and yet often Kafka is still cast as a solitary...
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Herman Melville in Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of Herman Melville, a towering figure in nineteenth-century American and world literature. The book grounds the study of Herman Melville's writings to the world that influenced their composition, publication and recognition, making it a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, students and general readers. Bringing together contributions...
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Vladimir Nabokov, bilingual writer of dazzling masterpieces, is a phenomenon that both resists and requires contextualization. This book challenges the myth of Nabokov as a sole genius who worked in isolation from his surroundings, as it seeks to anchor his work firmly within the historical, cultural, intellectual and political contexts of the turbulent twentieth century. 'Vladimir Nabokov in Context' maps the ever-changing sites, people, cultures...
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Walt Whitman is a poet of contexts. His poetic practice was one of observing, absorbing, and then reflecting the world around him. Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural, and political - through which to engage Whitman's life and work. Written by distinguished scholars of Whitman and nineteenth-century American literature and culture, this collection synthesizes...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Purchase Suggestions Service. Make Purchase Suggestion