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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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Antony and Cleopatra
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare
The most comprehensive edition of Antony and Cleopatra ever produced, this latest New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare is a guide to everything of significance now known about the tragedy.
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Editor(s): Marvin Spevack
All Variorum volumes are now available in a matching cloth binding.
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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 Beowulf
During recent decades, the study of Beowulf has flourished in liberal arts colleges, community colleges, and high schools. Useful for new instructors as well as medieval scholars, this collection of...
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Editor(s): Jess B. Bessinger, Jr., Robert F. Yeager
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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 Byron's Poetry
As the volume editor, Frederick W. Shilstone, explains in his preface, this book originated in hallways, at conferences, and in classrooms, with colleagues and students "who share my enthusiasm for...
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Editor(s): Frederick W. Shilstone
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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 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 Keats's Poetry
"Few poets are as congenial to undergraduates as Keats," write the volume editors. But they warn that if the poetry and the life and character of the poet are attractive...
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Editor(s): Walter H. Evert, Jack W. Rhodes
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Approaches to Teaching the Metaphysical Poets
Using the now controversial designation metaphysical as a term to be debated or dissected, this book helps teachers with the classroom process of discriminating among the metaphysical and other poems...
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Editor(s): Sidney Gottlieb
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Approaches to Teaching Milton's Paradise Lost
Of all Milton's works, Paradise Lost is his supreme and most influential accomplishment, but the scope of the epic, the difficulties in its form, and the strangeness of its contexts...
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Editor(s): Galbraith M. Crump
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Approaches to Teaching Pope's Poetry
Pope's poetry, the editors of this collection suggest, "provides...an index to social criticism, to enlightened religious belief, to witty and vivacious writing, and to the bearing of much of the...
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Editor(s): Wallace Jackson, R. Paul Yoder
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Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Hamlet
For centuries Hamlet has been a source of inspiration for readers and audiences. The play's characters fascinated Romantic critics from Goethe to Coleridge, its themes interested psychoanalytic theorists from Freud...
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Editor(s): Bernice W. Kliman
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Approaches to Teaching Spenser's Faerie Queene
The epic poem's archaic language, formal structure, historical references, and literary allusions all present special challenges to both student and teacher--challenges that the contributors to this book believe can be...
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Editor(s): David Lee Miller, Alexander Dunlop
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Approaches to Teaching Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
"This Approaches volume will be invaluable: it is rich in accessible resources, alert to the eclecticism of approaches to teaching fiction, rooted in the practical world of the classroom, and...
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Editor(s): Eileen Barrett and Ruth O. Saxton
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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 Wordsworth's Poetry
A central figure of the English Romantic movement and the author of scores of canonical works, William Wordsworth is a mainstay of literature courses ranging from freshmen surveys to upper-level...
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Editor(s): Spencer Hall, Jonathan Ramsey
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As You Like It
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare
This definitive edition of the play replaces the New Variorum Edition of 1890. Also included is the text for Thomas Lodge's Rosalynde.
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Editor(s): Richard Knowles
All Variorum volumes are now available in a matching cloth binding.
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British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1641-1700
A companion volume to Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, this book provides the first comprehensive union list of all known British serials of the period. Each serial is listed alphabetically by first...
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Editor(s): Carolyn W. Nelson, Matthew Seccombe
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Chaucer's Fame in England
STC Chauceriana, 1475-1640
This new bibliography of over 1,300 Chaucer references builds on a rich tradition of vigorous scholarship, starting with Caroline Spurgeon's 1925 landmark compilation, Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and...
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Author(s): Jackson Campbell Boswell, Sylvia Wallace Holton
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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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Four-volume set of Variorum
All four New Variorum Editions of Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, and The Winter's Tale) are available as a set. Priced separately $360; four-volume...
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Author(s): William Shakespeare
All Variorum volumes are now available in a matching cloth binding.
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Literary Research Guide
An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies
(Fifth Edition)
Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 by Choice and as one of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year for 2008. Click here to read the TLS...
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Author(s): James L. Harner
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Measure for Measure
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare
The volume presents the first New Variorum Edition of Measure for Measure and reprints important sources, including the complete texts of George Whetstone's Promos and Cassandra and An Heptameron of...
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Editor(s): Mark Eccles
All Variorum volumes are now available in a matching cloth binding.
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Professions of Desire
Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature
Professions of Desire includes examples of lesbian and gay literary analysis and thoughtful discussions about what it means to be lesbian, gay, or queer in the literature classroom.
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Editor(s): George E. Haggerty, Bonnie Zimmerman
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Redrawing the Boundaries
The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies
In this collection of essays, twenty-four leading scholars examine the major developments that have expanded the horizons of English and American literary studies during recent decades.
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Editor(s): Stephen Greenblatt, Giles Gunn
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Victorian Periodicals
A Guide to Research (volume 2)
Essays on the interdisciplinary nature of periodicals research.
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Editor(s): J. Don Vann, Rosemary T. VanArsdel
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Teaching Shakespeare through Performance
Teaching Shakespeare through Performance is designed for teachers of both high school and college English courses who wish to introduce performance strategies into their classroom.
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Editor(s): Milla Cozart Riggio
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Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers
Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers summarizes the latest scholarship on British women writers who lived from roughly 1500 to 1700 and suggests strategies for presenting their works in the...
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Editor(s): Susanne Woods, Margaret P. Hannay
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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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Victorian Prose
A Guide to Research
Victorian nonfiction prose: the Carlyles, Thomas Babington Macaulay, John Henry Newman, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, the Oxford Movement: 1833–45, the critics, the unbelievers, and Victorian...
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Editor(s): David J. DeLaura
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The Winter's Tale
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare
Inaugurated in the 1860s and the standard reference edition of Shakespeare's work, the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare continues the tradition of the original Variorum editions of the early nineteenth...
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Editor(s): Robert Kean Turner, Virginia Westling Haas
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