The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. VI: Prefaces and Introductions

Prepared jointly for the 1st time, thirty-two introductions through W. B. Yeats to the works of such literary greats as William Blake, J. M. Synge, girl Gregory, Oscar Wilde and extra.

Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science (Science and Literature Series)

Contemplating Thoreau as a significant, devoted scientist, this e-book bargains an alternate knowing of his accomplishment and where of technology in American literature. It exhibits how Thoreau's adventure unearths the interplay among Romanticism and the dynamic, law-seeking technological know-how of its day.

Detective Fiction and Literature: The Figure on the Carpet

A literary research exploring detective fiction as a really expert literary style, from its origins within the works of Poe, Wilkie Collins and Doyle to present-day writers.

Decoding Women's Magazines: From Mademoiselle to Ms.

This can be a learn of greater than 50 smooth courses for ladies within the usa this day, together with the wonder and type titles, the carrier and residential magazines, these geared toward minority readership, new lady staff, and girls with special-interests and spending strength. The research specializes in the concepts during which the industrial constitution shapes the cultural content material, the magazines' repetitive makes an attempt to safe a consensus concerning the female that's grounded in consumerism and the contradictory semiotic buildings at paintings inside of and among bought ads, covert ads and editorial positive aspects.