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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. The End of Learning

    Milton and Education

    By Thomas Festa

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    This book shows that education constitutes the central metaphor of John Milton's political as well as his poetic writing. Demonstrating how Milton's theory of education emerged from his own practices as a reader and teacher, this book analyzes for the first time the relationship between Milton's...

    Published June 1st 2006 by Routledge

  2. Queer Times

    Christopher Isherwood's Modernity

    By Jamie M. Carr

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Published May 9th 2006 by Routledge

  3. Unnoticed in the Casual Light of Day

    Phillip Larkin and the Plain Style

    By Tijana Stojkovic

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Larkin's poems are often regarded as falling somewhere between the traditional 'plain' and the more contemporary 'postmodern' categories. This study undertakes a comprehensive linguistic and historical study of the plain style tradition in poetry, its relationship with so-called 'difficult' poetry,...

    Published April 13th 2006 by Routledge

  4. Melville's Monumental Imagination

    By Ian S. Maloney

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Melville's Monumental Imagination explores the connection between the contested 19th century American monument tradition and one of the nation's most revered authors, Herman Melville (1819-1891). The book was written to fill a void in recent Melville scholarship. To date, there has not been a...

    Published November 16th 2005 by Routledge

  5. No Image There and the Gaze Remains

    The Visual in the Work of Jorie Graham

    By Catherine Karaguezian

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Published September 15th 2005 by Routledge

  6. Somewhat on the Community System

    Representations of Fourierism in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

    By Andrew Loman

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Published August 29th 2005 by Routledge

  7. A Singing Contest

    Conventions of Sound in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney

    By Meg Tyler

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Published July 25th 2005 by Routledge

  8. Ready to Trample on All Human Law

    Finance Capitalism in the Fiction of Charles Dickens

    By Paul A. Jarvie

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    This book explores the relationship between Dickens’s novels and the financial system. Elements of Dickens’s work form a critique of financial capitalism. This critique is rooted in the difference between use-value and exchange-value, and in the difference between productive circulations and mere...

    Published June 28th 2005 by Routledge

  9. Whitman's Ecstatic Union

    Conversion and Ideology in Leaves of Grass

    By Michael Sowder

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Published June 9th 2005 by Routledge

  10. Worlding Forster

    The Passage from Pastoral

    By Stuart Christie

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    Published January 3rd 2005 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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