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, woman 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 publication bargains another realizing of his accomplishment and where of technology in American literature. It exhibits how Thoreau's event unearths the interplay among Romanticism and the dynamic, law-seeking technology 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.

It is a examine of greater than 50 sleek guides for ladies within the usa this day, together with the sweetness and model titles, the carrier and residential magazines, these geared toward minority readership, new woman employees, and girls with special-interests and spending energy. The research makes a speciality of the recommendations during which the economic 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 constructions at paintings inside of and among bought ads, covert ads and editorial beneficial properties.