Bøker utgitt av Pennsylvania State University Press

This study of Milton's decade in government uses the State Papers. It examines international affairs and analyses the government bureaucracy that conceived and articulated foreign policy during the 1650s. Milton's State Letters reveal his knowledge of international affairs.

Offers a new interpretation of Wordsworth's "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal", as well as "Strange Fits of Passion" and "She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways", making a contribution to an interpretive debate concerning the first poem and the theoretical issues to which it gives rise.

This work, which includes discussions of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and Scott Fitzgerald, focuses on the provenance and central character of writing by mainstream figures in America's literary past.

A study of Amos Oz's fiction from his first uncollected stories to his latest novel, "The Third Generation". It argues that his fiction has followed Jung's psychological theory, examines the religious dimension of Oz's work and considers the impact of his personal life on his writings.

This study of the life, work and influence of one of Russia's most popular writers of Romantic fiction attempts to re-establish his position in Russian cultural history, while at the same time introducing a forgotten library to a new audience.

A portrait of the life of Father John of Kronstadt, a priest in tsarist Russia, venerated in his lifetime and later elevated to sainthood. It draws on documents from the Russian archives, thousands of letters he received from his followers and police reports on the sect that formed around him.

This text explores the creative processes in four classic works: "Death in Venice", "Treasure Island", "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" and "War and Peace". It considers how each of these works was compelled by an urgent life problem - conscious or unconscious - of its author.