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This biography traces the formative years of one of America's most celebrated and influential authors. The first of a projected three-volume life, it examines Hemingway's midwestern childhood, his journalistic apprenticeship, and his experiences as a Red Cross volunteer in Italy during World War I.
In this biography, David Minter draws upon a wealth of material, including the novelist's essays, interviews, and letters, to show the life and the artistic achievement of one of 20th-century America's most complex literary figures and to reveal Faulkner as powerful, vulnerable and real.
In this volume of essays the author casts new light on aspects of the writer's life and tackles his writings from a critical angle. Evelyn Waugh emerges as a diffident artist and sensitive recorder of the 1920s. This book looks at both Waugh's private and public lives.
This study of Peter Ackroyd rejects the postmodern label previously attached to the author. It provides a consideration of all Ackroyd's writing to date, from his poetry and critical thought, to his novels and biographies.
This collection of essays examines Austen in relation to her business. Many of these essays, including those by Julia Prewitt Brown, Margaret Drabble, Jan Fergus, Isobel Grundy, Gary Kelly, and Elaine Showalter, were first delivered as papers at the Lake Louise conference on Persuasion .
First appeared in the New Yorker , these autobiographical writings by Mencken recall memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s.
Places Trollope's work in the wider context of nineteenth century culture - an area of growing interest in literary studies - and combines three aspects, the Victorian novel, media history and gender issues. By applying feminist criticism the book challenges the traditional view of Trollope as a conservative.
Explores an alternative vision of citizenship in the writings of Rousseau and Stael. This critique transgresses the boundary between political philosophy and literature in turning explicitly to fictional texts as the site of alternative conceptions of self, citzenship and politics.