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Studies in Major Literary Authors

Studies in Major Literary Authors features outstanding scholarship on celebrated and neglected authors of both canonical and lesser-known texts.

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  1. Thoughts Painfully Intense

    Hawthorne and the Invalid Author

    By James Mancall

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Published April 25th 2002 by Routledge

  2. 'All the World's a Stage'

    Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley's Novels

    By Charlene Bunnell

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    This book examines the often tragic and nearly always disabling metaphor of thetheatrum mundi, world-as-stage, as it plays itself out in the characters of Mary Shelley's novels....

    Published April 2nd 2002 by Routledge

  3. Shelley's Textual Seductions

    Plotting Utopia in the Erotic and Political Works

    By Samuel Lyndon Gladden

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    This book demonstrates how Percy Shelley develops strategies of textual seduction that displace political narratives into the seemingly apolitical reaches of erotic utopia....

    Published February 14th 2002 by Routledge

  4. Joycean Frames

    Film and the Fiction of James Joyce

    By Thomas Burkdall

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Employing concepts from film theory, this much-needed study explores in-depth the "cinematic" quality of James Joyce's fiction from Dubliners to Finnegan's Wake....

    Published April 30th 2001 by Routledge

  5. Philip Roth Considered

    The Concentrationary Universe of the American Writer

    By Steven Milowitz

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Published August 24th 2000 by Routledge

  6. The Pusher and the Sufferer

    An Unsentimental Reading of "Moby Dick"

    By Suzanne Stein

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Published August 21st 2000 by Routledge

  7. Henry James as a Biographer

    A Self Among Others

    By Willie Tolliver

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Published August 15th 2000 by Routledge

  8. The Wayward Nun of Amherst

    Emily Dickinson and Medieval Mystical Women

    By Angela Conrad

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Published June 19th 2000 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Edith Wharton as Spatial Activist and Analyst
    By Reneé Somers
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  2. Edith Wharton's Evolutionary Conception: Darwinian Allegory in the Major Novels
    By Paul J. Ohler
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  3. No Place for Home: Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
    By Jay Ellis
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  4. Creating Yoknapatawpha: Readers and Writers in Faulkner's Fiction
    By Owen Robinson
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  5. Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde
    By Paul Fortunato
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  6. Milton's Uncertain Eden: Understanding Place in Paradise Lost
    By Andrew Mattison
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  7. Queer Times: Christopher Isherwood's Modernity
    By Jamie M. Carr
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  8. Unnoticed in the Casual Light of Day: Phillip Larkin and the Plain Style
    By Tijana Stojkovic
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  9. The End of Learning: Milton and Education
    By Thomas Festa
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  10. Writing Out of All the Camps: J.M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement
    By Laura Wright
    To Be Published May 30th 2013

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