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

Prepared jointly for the 1st time, thirty-two introductions via 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 major, dedicated scientist, this publication bargains another knowing of his accomplishment and where of technological know-how in American literature. It exhibits how Thoreau's event 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 good 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 learn of greater than 50 sleek guides for girls within the usa this present day, together with the sweetness and model titles, the carrier and residential magazines, these aimed toward minority readership, new girl staff, and girls with special-interests and spending energy. The research specializes in the ideas in 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 constructions at paintings inside and among bought ads, covert ads and editorial positive factors.