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This book is for an academic readership in Latin American and world literatures. It offers unprecedented coverage of the principal contexts in which leading Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) read and wrote, including family and Argentine history, the Western cultural tradition, both learned and popular, and the Middle East.

Provides crucial biographical, critical, historical, and cultural context for the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Britain's first feminist and political theorist. Leading scholars provide students and scholars of eighteenth-century feminism, literature, social, and political theory with essential background to understand Wollstonecraft's diverse writing.

This collection will be useful to scholars, students, and thoughtful readers as they seek to come to terms with one of the most dense and philosophically rich authors in the contemporary canon. To understand him, one must understand a host of ideas and perspectives.

This book places Mark Twain in his literary, historical, and cultural contexts. Its thirty-four chapters, written by experts on the various topics, cover many facets of Twain's life and works. The book will be of interest to scholars and students researching Twain.

This book guides the reader through the intersecting fields of biography, literary culture and reception, and the intellectual and cultural movements informing the history and politics of the Romantic period and in turn the life and works of Lord Byron (1788-1824).

This book guides readers through the global scope and prolific imagination of Pynchon's canonical work, providing the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarly analyses of his writing. It will be of interest to students, graduates and instructors studying and teaching Thomas Pynchon.

This volume is for newcomers to Baldwin's work as well as those who are familiar with that work and with established ways to approach it. The language and perspectives of the two dozen authors contained herein are diverse, and yet all of the essays are accessible to specialists and non-specialists alike.

The book reveals the wide range of personal, artistic, political, historical and geographical influences that shaped Sylvia Plath's work. The primary readers envisioned are students, scholars, and instructors of Plath and twentieth century poetry more generally.

Thirty-eight authoritative and lively essays by an international team of scholars examine a full range of Blake's works from lyrical songs to later myth, from writing to artworks, situating them in historical and cultural contexts. Research driven yet accessibly written, the essays will appeal to students, teachers, and academic experts alike.

Scholars and students alike sometimes find Spenser's allusions and allegorical mode of writing baffling. This essay collection approaches the contexts of Spenser's poetry in several crucial ways, examining the environment in which he lived, the genres which he drew upon and the influences which helped fashion his art.

This collection of thirty-five lively and accessible essays offers a comprehensive account of the life and work of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81), set within social, political, cultural and literary contexts.

This volume supports Chaucer's modern readers by delivering the essential contexts - literary, historical, cultural, social, aesthetic, spiritual, philosophical, economic, psychological, linguistic and scientific - through which to read, interpret and enjoy his works with greater confidence and independence.

Over the three centuries since embarking on his printing career, Samuel Richardson has been variously understood as ground-breaking novelist, prolific correspondent and moral crusader. This new volume of essays offers a comprehensive account of his life and works in their historical, literary, intellectual and cultural contexts.

This innovative book places Kafka's work in its many varied contexts. Accessible essays by leading Kafka scholars discuss his texts from new and often unexpected angles. They include his relation to Czech literature, modern culture, the role of Prague in the First World War, and friendship, illness and sexuality.

Covering a range of topics - biographical, social, literary, and intellectual - and addressing both the sources of his work and how he influenced later writers, this exploration of the world of John Keats (1795-1821) enriches our understanding of one of Britain's greatest poets and letter writers.

Short, lively, and eminently readable chapters, written by leading experts in early modern studies, illuminate various aspects of Donne's life, work, career, and reputation. These engaging chapters are supplemented by a chronology of Donne's life and works and a comprehensive bibliography.

This book provide up-to-date insights into the key contexts to D. H. Lawrence's life, career and legacy. It will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers wishing to orientate themselves in Lawrence studies or needing a succinct introduction to the latest state of knowledge about his life and work.

This volume provides an overview of Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and times and demonstrates why he continues to be a significant figure in American literature. It is a key resource for students and scholars of Hawthorne. It will also be of interest for those studying American literature and American history.

Setting George Bernard Shaw's life and work in the dynamic times in which he lived, this collection of forty-two essays on a wide range of themes provides new directions for future research. Contributors reveal the subjects that defined Shaw's life and work, from theatre and music to politics and philosophy.

Setting George Bernard Shaw's life and work in the dynamic times in which he lived, this collection of forty-two essays on a wide range of themes provides new directions for future research. Contributors reveal the subjects that defined Shaw's life and work, from theatre and music to politics and philosophy.

Brings together for the first time in one volume today's leading scholars of this major theatre tradition. The book provides a state-of-the-art survey of current thinking on the commedia and discusses both the early modern period and the reinvention of the commedia dell'arte in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Ted Hughes in Context brings together thirty-four contributors who inform new readings of Hughes's work, and conceptualize it within long-standing critical traditions with a new awareness of his posthumous importance. It will appeal to readers, students, and scholars of Hughes's work.

Designed for students and scholars, Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural and political - in which to engage Whitman's life and work.

Indispensable for understanding the historical, cultural and intellectual contexts of Nabokov's work for students of English, American and Russian literary and cultural studies. This book is also essential reading for established scholars wanting to keep up with the new approaches and methodologies in Nabokov studies which this collection showcases.

This innovative book places Kafka's work in its many varied contexts. Accessible essays by leading Kafka scholars discuss his texts from new and often unexpected angles. They include his relation to Czech literature, modern culture, the role of Prague in the First World War, and friendship, illness and sexuality.

Scholars and students alike sometimes find Spenser's allusions and allegorical mode of writing baffling. This essay collection approaches the contexts of Spenser's poetry in several crucial ways, examining the environment in which he lived, the genres which he drew upon and the influences which helped fashion his art.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading international scholars provides a comprehensive account of the context of Dante's life and work. It will not only answer questions, but also inspire new research into the connections between material culture, intellectual traditions, and literary and artistic expression.

William Wordsworth in Context offers thirty-five concise and readable chapters on the essential contexts for understanding all aspects of the leading English Romantic poet. It discusses Wordsworth's life, family and friendships, his critical reception, and key aspects of the cultural, historical, political, and scientific contexts in which he wrote.

Over the three centuries since embarking on his printing career, Samuel Richardson has been variously understood as ground-breaking novelist, prolific correspondent and moral crusader. This new volume of essays offers a comprehensive account of his life and works in their historical, literary, intellectual and cultural contexts.

Henry David Thoreau in Context provides original research on Thoreau's influences, the topics he explored, the intellectual currents he was inspired by, and how he has been received since his death, making it a valuable resource to students, teachers, scholars, and general readers.