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"American Modern(ist) Epic argues that a cadre of minority novelists revitalized the classic epic form in an effort to recast the United States according to modern, diverse, and pluralistic grounds. These modern(ist) epic novels undermined and revised the foundational ideology of the United States, modernizing the epic form in an effort to refound the nation"--

Ireland's Gramophones examines the perpetual presence of the gramophone in literature of Irish modernism: the same period in which gramophonic technology grew to cultural prominence. The book argues that the gramophone, as object and instrument, embodies accounts of a culture frequently traumatized through violence and disruption.

This study considers howBritish literature from the late-Victorian era to the 1930s draws upon Gothic andsupernatural narrative and imagery in its representations of place, whethermetropolitan, suburban or rural; it argues that this period of dramatic socio-culturalchange is shadowed by a corresponding evolution in Gothic literaryrepresentation.

This collection places the fiction of Bram Stoker in relation to this life, career and status as a late Victorian. It centres on various aspects of his interests and career, such as politics, the legal system, his role as Irvings stage manager, and analyses his work in relation to these.

W. B. Yeats's A Vision is notoriously dense. This book provides an authoritative, clear and straightforward guide to the system of A Vision, the framework within which he created many of his most important works.

Followingthe editors introduction to the collection, the essays in Scholarly Milton examine thenature of Miltons own formidable scholarship and its implications for hisprose and poetryscholarly Milton the writeras well as subsequent scholarshistorical and theoretical framing of Milton studies as an object of scholarlyattentionscholarly Milton as at first an emergent and later an establishedacademic discipline. The essays are particularly concerned with the topics ofthe ethical ends of learning, of Miltons attention to the trivium within theRenaissance humanist educational system, and the development of scholarlycommentary on Miltons

The book features previously unpublishedmanuscripts and correspondence illustrating case studies of John Dos Passos screen writingfor Paramount Pictures 1934 his role in writing and filming The Spanish Earth 1937, a SpanishCivil War relief project whose circumstances culminated in his public breakfrom the Left the 1936 screen treatment he wrote just before The Spanish Earth in consultation withits director, Joris Ivens and his later-career attempts, beginning in the1940s, to adapt his radically innovative trilogy U.S.A. directly for the screen and to realign its leftist politicstoward the anti-Communist conservatism reflected in his

vol 2 Yeatss Writings. This book is itself a resource to enable scholars and students in Yeats studies to explore the materials in his library, which, together with most of his unpublished papers and manuscripts, forms part of the writers archive in the National Library, and all are available for consultation. This book could not have been written without the generous participation of the Yeats family over many years. Their legacy, now entrusted to the National Library, is robust and endless in potential. This book is about individual cases but also the building of an ioeuvre/i.In short, this book enriches our understanding

"Granville Bantock: A Guide to Research provides both researchers and British music aficionados an entry to documents, books, articles, recordings, and the like currently available for further study about Bantock's life and music. Location and descriptive details of the manuscripts that are extant will assist those looking to construct editions of especially those works which have remained in manuscript and updated editions of those works which were initially published nearly 100 years ago. A discography provides insight into the wide variety of recording companies that first served Bantock's music. Included in the book are sections about: academic theses and dissertations, citations of locations of many of Bantock's letters, and an index that cross-references all of these details to the works which they highlight is a major help to the reader"--

This volume addresses the integration of Beat authors, texts, and themes into formal academic settings. Addressed to secondary and post secondary instructors, the book features six domains: 1) Foundational Issues, 2) Beat Literary Genres, 3) Beat Literary Topics, 4) Beat Lineages and Legacies, 5) Selected Resources, and 6) Sample Assignments.

"Sam Aleckson was the pen name for Samuel Williams, a man born into slavery in Charleston, South Carolina, who wrote a memoir about his life and the world around him during and after his bondage. Published privately by his family, Before the War and After the Union traces Williams's life from his earliest memories of being enslaved and forced to serve Confederate soldiers in army camps, through the post-Civil War years as his family struggled to re-connect and build a new life during Reconstruction. It the ends with tales about his life as the head of a southern Black family newly relocated to Vermont at the turn-of-the-century"--

This collection is intended as a useful introduction to Virginia Woolf's celebrated and often misunderstood novel, designed for both teachers and students. It is hoped it will lead to a deep understanding of Mrs. Dalloway and Woolf's method in general.

"The first study of his little-known screen writing, John Dos Passos and Motion Pictures: Writing Film, Film Writing draws on previously unpublished manuscripts and letters to explore his cinematic methods and his controversial mid-career conservative political shift"--

"A Scientific Companion to Robert Frost represents the first systematic attempt to document all of the references to science and natural history in Frost's poetry. The book, which is organized chronologically, uses accessible language and includes illustrations and appendices that should make it a valuable resource for teachers and scholars"--

"The Fire that Breaks traces Gerard Manley Hopkins's continuing and pervasive influence among writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Not only do the essays explore responses to Hopkins by individual writers--including, among others, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, and Charles Wright--but they also examine Hopkins's substantial influence among Caribbean poets, Appalachian writers, and contemporary poets whose work lies at the intersection of ecopoetry and theology. Combining essays by the world's leading Hopkins scholars with essays by scholars from diverse fields, the collection examines both known and unexpected affinities. The Fire that Breaks is a persistent testimony to the lasting, continuing impact of Hopkins on poetry in English"--

"Scholarly Milton is a collection of essays concerned with the function of scholarship in both the invention and the reception of Milton's writings in poetry and prose. The eleven essays examine 'scholarly Milton' the writer and 'scholarly Milton' as an established academic discipline"--