Author: Roy Bishop StokesPublisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Michael Sadleir, 1888-1957
Author: Roy Bishop StokesPublisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Author: D. H. LawrencePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521013031
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Lives of the Novelists
Author: John SutherlandPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300182430
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1456
Book Description
No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers whose works illustrate the best of every kind of fiction—from gothic, penny dreadful, and pornography to fantasy, romance, and high literature. Each author was chosen, Professor Sutherland explains, because his or her books are well worth reading and are likely to remain so for at least another century. Sutherland presents these authors in chronological order, in each case deftly combining a lively and informative biographical sketch with an opinionated assessment of the writer's work. Taken together, these novelists provide both a history of the novel and a guide to its rich variety. Always entertaining, and sometimes shocking, Sutherland considers writers as diverse as Daniel Defoe, Henry James, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Michael Crichton, Jeffrey Archer, and Jacqueline Susann. Written for all lovers of fiction, Lives of the Novelists succeeds both as introduction and re-introduction, as Sutherland presents favorite and familiar novelists in new ways and transforms the less favored and less familiar through his relentlessly fascinating readings.
A Bibliography of British History, 1914-1989
Author: Keith RobbinsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198224969
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Containing over 25,000 entries, this unique volume will be absolutely indispensable for all those with an interest in Britain in the twentieth century. Accessibly arranged by theme, with helpful introductions to each chapter, a huge range of topics is covered. There is a comprehensiveindex.
XIX Century Fiction
Author: Michael SadleirPublisher: London, Berkeley, Constable, University of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
Author: D. H. LawrencePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521006958
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Volume 4 contains the 848 letters collected here, written between June 1921 to March 1924.
1979-1990
Author: Henryk SawoniakPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110975068
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
Railway Reading and Late-Victorian Literary Series
Author: Paul Raphael RooneyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351965832
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The railway was one of the principal Victorian spaces of reading. This book spotlights one of the leading audience demographics in this late-Victorian market: the newly empowered readers of the expanding middle class. The transactions in which late-Victorian readers acquired the books read whilst travelling are reconstructed by exploring the leading determinants of consumers’ purchasing choices at the railway station bookstalls selling books intended for reading in this zone. This exploration concentrates on the impact of forces like the input of the staff running the bookstalls and the commercial environment in which consumers made their purchases. At the center of this study is a leading (and still relatively under-examined) genre of Victorian print culture circulating in this reading space― the series. Rooney examines three leading examples of late-Victorian series, which sought to satisfy railway passengers’ need for literary reading matter. Many of the period’s principal authors and literary genres featured in their lists. Each venture is representative of one of the three main pricing tiers of series publishing. Employing an eclectic methodological framework combining cultural studies and book history approaches with concepts from the new humanities, the reading experiences furnished by the light fiction of these series are reconstructed. This study reflects the recent growth in scholarship on historical readership, the expansion in the canon of Victorian popular literature, and the broader material turn in nineteenth-century studies.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Friends and Apostles
Author: Rupert BrookePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300070040
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Letters between the two men reveal their thoughts on politics, literature, and homosexuality, as well as their observations of such collegues and friends as John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, and Betrand Russell.