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Anglo-Irish Literature
A Review of Research
Essays describe general research works on Anglo-Irish writers, as well as specific works on nineteenth-century writers, the Irish Literary Revival, and modern drama.
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Editor(s): Richard J. Finneran
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Approaches to Teaching the Arthurian Tradition
In Approaches to Teaching the Arthurian Tradition, instructors who have taught Arthurian material in contexts from high school to graduate school draw on their experience to address a range of...
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Editor(s): Maureen Fries, Jeanie Watson
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Approaches to Teaching Brontë's Jane Eyre
Taught more frequently than any of Charlotte Brontë's other novels, Jane Eyre presents distinct problems for the contemporary undergraduate instructor, one being the work's sheer length.
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Editor(s): Diane Long Hoeveler, Beth Lau
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Approaches to Teaching Camus's The Plague
Thirty-five years ago Germaine Brée wrote that The Plague "is, within its limits, a great novel, the most disturbing, most moving novel yet to have come out of the chaos...
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Editor(s): Steven G. Kellman
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Approaches to Teaching Cather's My Ántonia
Unlike many other great works of English literature, My Ántonia is immediately accessible to today's students. "Cather's novel is so clear," Susan J. Rosowski says, "so apparently effortless, that it...
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Editor(s): Susan J. Rosowski
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Approaches to Teaching Chopin's The Awakening
An MLA survey taken in preparation for this volume indicates that teachers are using The Awakening in no fewer than twenty areas of the college curriculum--from freshman writing and textual...
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Editor(s): Bernard Koloski
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Approaches to Teaching Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
Long a centerpiece of eighteenth-century literary studies and a significant influence on the fiction of its day, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe remains a standard text for teaching the period and continues...
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Editor(s): Maximillian E. Novak, Carl Fisher
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Approaches to Teaching Dickens's Bleak House
"This splendid volume of essays does more to highlight Dickens's dazzling achievement in Bleak House than any critical intervention I have encountered. I found practices that will translate into my...
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Editor(s): John O. Jordan, Gordon Bigelow
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Approaches to Teaching Dickens' David Copperfield
The novels of Charles Dickens have attracted a wide and enthusiastic readership since they first appeared in the mid-nineteenth century, and in recent decades their social, biographical, and psychological elements...
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Editor(s): Richard J. Dunn
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Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Middlemarch
Taught to undergraduates in introductory surveys as well as in specialized upper-division courses, Middlemarch presents challenges to both teachers and students--in its length, its rich philosophical and psychological insights, its...
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Editor(s): Kathleen Blake
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Approaches to Teaching Ellison's Invisible Man
Teachers of Invisible Man differ about which aspect of Ralph Ellison's novel deserves the most emphasis. According to Susan Resneck Parr, a coeditor of this volume, "some [teachers] argue that...
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Editor(s): Susan Resneck Parr, Pancho Savery
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Louise Erdrich
This volume seeks to enrich teachers--and students--understanding of the fictional world Louise Erdrich creates and to address the challenges of teaching her novels and poetry.
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Editor(s): Greg Sarris, Connie A. Jacobs, James R. Giles
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Approaches to Teaching Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
"Approaches to Teaching Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby offers instructors a resource they did not have before—a comprehensive guidebook with materials and approaches for more scholarly instruction." F. Scott Fitzgerald Review...
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Editor(s): Jackson R. Bryer, Nancy P. VanArsdale
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Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction
The British and American Traditions
Recent decades have seen a revival of scholarly interest in Gothic fiction. Critics are attracted to the genre's exploration of irrationality, to its dark representation of the bourgeois family and...
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Editor(s): Diane Long Hoeveler, Tamar Heller
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Approaches to Teaching Joyce's Ulysses
Ulysses is generally recognized as the most influential of all modernist literary texts, and seven decades after its publication the novel continues to fascinate, tease, and engage students.
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Editor(s): Kathleen McCormick, Erwin R. Steinberg
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Approaches to Teaching Melville's Moby-Dick
Pondering the physical and metaphysical implications of the whale's circulatory system, the narrator of Moby-Dick says, "But how easy and how hopeless to teach these fine things!"
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Editor(s): Martin Bickman
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Approaches to Teaching Nabokov's Lolita
"Professors Kuzmanovich and Diment have compiled a volume that can only improve the teaching of Nabokov’s best-known work." Slavic and East European Journal "The volume provides a wide array of...
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Editor(s): Zoran Kuzmanovich, Galya Diment
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Approaches to Teaching Poe's Prose and Poetry
"The essays provide practical activities that can be readily attempted by teachers who are open to a variety of pedagogical techniques—and who have been frustrated by students' preconceptions concerning Poe."...
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Editor(s): Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Tony Magistrale
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Approaches to Teaching Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Although rarely found on college syllabi just two decades ago, Uncle Tom's Cabin is (according to an MLA survey) one of the most frequently named additions to nineteenth-century American literature...
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Editor(s): Elizabeth Ammons, Susan Belasco
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O’Brien
"This new Approaches collection is both for aficionados of Tim O’Brien (and Vietnam literature) and for those with somewhat broader literary interests. I have nothing but glowing praise for its...
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Editor(s): Alex Vernon, Catherine Calloway
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Approaches to Teaching Voltaire's Candide
"Candide is probably the most frequently taught work of French literature," writes Renée Waldinger, yet "students are often misled by the apparent simplicity of the tale."
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Editor(s): Renée Waldinger
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Approaches to Teaching Woolf's To the Lighthouse
Many instructors find Woolf's fifth novel her most accessible because it grapples with issues that interest students. The essays in this collection show how teachers can tackle the often threatening...
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Editor(s): Beth Rigel Daugherty, Mary Beth Pringle
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Approaches to Teaching Wright's Native Son
Richard Wright predicted that Bigger Thomas, his most powerful literary creation, would become "a symbolic figure of American life, a figure who would hold within him the prophecy of our...
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Editor(s): James A. Miller
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Claire d'Albe: An English Translation
Both Claire and her husband, M. d'Albe, are virtuous and upstanding, and Frédéric, her husband's nineteen-year-old adopted son and factory assistant, is honest and noble-hearted. But in the beautiful and...
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Author(s): Sophie Cottin
Translator(s): Margaret Cohen
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Claire d'Albe: The Original French Text
Both Claire and her husband, M. d'Albe, are virtuous and upstanding, and Frédéric, her husband's nineteen-year-old adopted son and factory assistant, is honest and noble-hearted. But in the beautiful and...
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Author(s): Sophie Cottin
Editor(s): Margaret Cohen
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Descent
Descent, a novella published in 1920, is set against the background of Jewish life in Russia and Ukraine during the turbulent period leading up to the October Revolution of 1917,...
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Author(s): Dovid Bergelson
Translator(s): Joseph Sherman
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"El encaje roto" y otros cuentos
Although written a century ago, the sixteen stories by Emilia Pardo Bazán collected in this volume are strikingly relevant to contemporary concerns.
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Author(s): Emilia Pardo Bazán
Editor(s): Joyce Tolliver
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Essential Encounters
Published in 1969, Essential Encounters is the first novel by a woman of sub-Saharan francophone Africa. Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury, of Cameroon, wrote it "to inspire other women to write." Its story...
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Author(s): Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury
Translator(s): Cheryl Toman
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The Female Bildungsroman in English
An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism
Fuderer's introductory essay traces the academic discussion of the topic from the early 1970s to the present; the bibliography lists 133 books, articles, and dissertations that deal either with the...
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Author(s): Laura Sue Fuderer
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Histoire d'Ernestine
Set in prerevolutionary France, Histoire d'Ernestine tells of the love between an innocent young woman and an aristocrat. Ernestine, German-born and orphaned, is an apprentice painter putting the finishing touches...
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Author(s): Marie Riccoboni
Editor(s): Joan Hinde Stewart, Philip Stewart
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Letters from a Peruvian Woman
One of the most popular works of the eighteenth century, Letters from a Peruvian Woman appeared in more than 130 editions, reprints, and translations during the hundred years following its...
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Author(s): Françoise de Graffigny
Translator(s): David Kornacker
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Letters of Mistress Henley Published by Her Friend
Considered by many scholars to be among the most brilliant novels written in French during the eighteenth century, Letters of Mistress Henley Published by Her Friend was composed as a...
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Author(s): Isabelle de Charrière
Translator(s): Philip Stewart, Jean Vaché
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Lettres de Mistriss Henley publiées par son amie
Considered by many scholars to be among the most brilliant novels written in French during the eighteenth century, Lettres de Mistriss Henley publiées par son amie was composed as a...
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Author(s): Isabelle de Charrière
Editor(s): Joan Hinde Stewart, Philip Stewart
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Lettres d'une Péruvienne
One of the most popular works of the eighteenth century, Lettres d'une Péruvienne appeared in more than 130 editions, reprints, and translations during the hundred years following its publi cation...
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Author(s): Françoise de Graffigny
Editor(s): Joan DeJean, Nancy K. Miller
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Mademoiselle Giraud, ma femme
Adolphe Belot was the envy of his contemporaries Émile Zola and Gustave Flaubert: his books, unlike theirs, were best-sellers. He specialized in popular fiction that provided readers with just the...
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Author(s): Adolphe Belot
Editor(s): Christopher Rivers
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Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife
Adolphe Belot was the envy of his contemporaries Émile Zola and Gustave Flaubert: his books, unlike theirs, were best-sellers. He specialized in popular fiction that provided readers with just the...
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Author(s): Adolphe Belot
Translator(s): Christopher Rivers
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Monsieur Vénus: A Materialist Novel
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress...
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Author(s): Rachilde
Editor(s): Melanie Hawthorne, Liz Constable
Translator(s): Melanie Hawthorne
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Monsieur Vénus: Roman matérialiste
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress...
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Author(s): Rachilde
Editor(s): Melanie Hawthorne, Liz Constable
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Nigilistka
First published in Switzerland in 1892, finally printed in Russia in 1906, and never before translated into English, Nigilistka is the coming-of-age story of Vera Barantsova, a young aristocrat who...
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Author(s): Sofya Kovalevskaya
Editor(s): Natasha Kolchevska
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Nihilist Girl
First published in Switzerland in 1892, finally printed in Russia in 1906, and never before translated into English, Nihilist Girl is the coming-of-age story of Vera Barantsova, a young aristocrat...
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Author(s): Sofya Kovalevskaya
Translator(s): Natasha Kolchevska with Mary Zirin
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Opgang
Opgang, a novella published in 1920, is set against the background of Jewish life in Russia and Ukraine during the turbulent period leading up to the October Revolution of 1917,...
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Author(s): Dovid Bergelson
Editor(s): Joseph Sherman
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Ourika: An English Translation
John Fowles presents a remarkable translation of a nineteenth-century work that provided the seed for his acclaimed novel The French Lieutenant's Woman and that will astonish and haunt modern...
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Author(s): Claire de Duras
Translator(s): John Fowles
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Ourika: The Original French Text
Based on a true story, Claire de Duras's Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during...
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Author(s): Claire de Duras
Editor(s): Joan DeJean, Margaret Waller
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Rencontres essentielles
Published in 1969, Rencontres essentielles is the first novel by a woman of sub-Saharan francophone Africa. Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury, of Cameroon, wrote it "to inspire other women to write." Its story...
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Author(s): Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury
Editor(s): Cheryl Toman
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Sarah
An English Translation
"This edition of Sarah promises not only to expand the place of women's writing in the colonial archive but also to help bridge the gap between nineteenth- and twentieth-century francophone...
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Author(s): Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Translator(s): Deborah Jenson, Doris Y. Kadish
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Sarah
The Original French Text
"This edition of Sarah promises not only to expand the place of women's writing in the colonial archive but also to help bridge the gap between nineteenth- and twentieth-century francophone...
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Author(s): Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Editor(s): Deborah Jenson, Doris Y. Kadish
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"The Signorina" and Other Stories
Greatly influenced by writers ranging from Dickens and Proust to Woolf and Colette, Anna Banti was a prominent figure on the Italian literary scene from the 1940s until her death...
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Author(s): Anna Banti
Translator(s): Martha King, Carol Lazzaro-Weiss
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"La signorina" e altri racconti
Greatly influenced by writers ranging from Dickens and Proust to Woolf and Colette, Anna Banti was a prominent figure on the Italian literary scene from the 1940s until her death...
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Author(s): Anna Banti
Editor(s): Carol Lazzaro-Weiss
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The Story of Ernestine
Set in prerevolutionary France, The Story of Ernestine tells of the love between an innocent young woman and an aristocrat. Ernestine, German-born and orphaned, is an apprentice painter putting...
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Author(s): Marie Riccoboni
Translator(s): Joan Hinde Stewart, Philip Stewart
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The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville
The beautiful Marquise de Banneville meets a handsome marquis, and they fall in love. But the young woman is actually a young man (brought up as a girl and completely...
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Author(s): François-Timoléon de Choisy, Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier, Charles Perrault
Editor(s): Joan DeJean
Translator(s): Steven Rendall
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Teaching Children's Literature
The thirteen essays that make up the first part of Teaching Children's Literature highlight issues of canon, pedagogy, genre, and period.
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Editor(s): Glenn Edward Sadler, U. C. Knoepflmacher, consultant ed.
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Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust
"Can the story be told?" Jorge Semprun asked after his liberation from Buchenwald. The question is addressed from many angles in this volume of essays on teaching about the Holocaust.
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Editor(s): Marianne Hirsch, Irene Kacandes
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Teaching the African Novel
"This is an important book, one that is going to become an indispensable theoretical and practical guide for teachers of the African novel and indeed of African literature in general."...
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Editor(s): Gaurav Desai
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Three Women
"Isabelle de Charrière is rightly prominent in the series and Trois femmes is an important work from the Revolutionary decade which will stimulate much debate in the classroom." Modern Language...
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Author(s): Isabelle de Charrière
Translator(s): Emma Rooksby
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"Torn Lace" and Other Stories
Although written a century ago, the sixteen stories by Emilia Pardo Bazán collected in this volume are strikingly relevant to contemporary concerns.
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Author(s): Emilia Pardo Bazán
Translator(s): Maria Cristina Urruela
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Trois femmes
"Isabelle de Charriè is rightly prominent in the series and Trois femmes is an important work from the Revolutionary decade which will stimulate much debate in the classroom." Modern Language...
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Author(s): Isabelle de Charrière
Editor(s): Emma Rooksby
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Victorian Novels in Serial
This handy volume provides a general introduction to the practice, followed by many Victorian novelists, of publishing their works in installments in newspapers and magazines.
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Author(s): J. Don Vann
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Tales of Crossed Destinies
The Modern Turkish Novel in a Comparative Context
"A stunning achievement. This book should be a major contribution to the teaching of world literature. Seyhan has, I believe, 'reimagined' the Turkish novel in a way that makes it...
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Author(s): Azade Seyhan
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