Bücher von Peter (McGill University

Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) is often regarded as the first true novel in English and a landmark in literary history; it also produced one of the greatest literary controversies in its time. Thomas Keymer and Peter Sabor offer a definitive account of the novel's enormous cultural impact.

Gibian explores the role played by Oliver Wendell Holmes in what was known as America's 'Age of Conversation'. Combining social, intellectual, legal and literary history with textual analysis, and setting Holmes in dialogue with Emerson, Hawthorne and Melville, Gibian redefines our understanding of the writing of the American Renaissance.

In the 1930s, Carl Goerdeler, the mayor of Leipzig and, as prices commissioner, a cabinet-level official, engaged in active opposition against the persecution of the Jews in Germany and in Eastern Europe. He did this openly until 1938 and then secretly in contact with the British Foreign Office. Having failed to change Hitler's policy against the Jews, Goerdeler joined forces with military and civil conspirators against the regime. He was hanged for treason on 2 February 1945. This book describes the actions of Carl Goerdeler, the German resistance leader who consistently engaged in efforts to protect the Jews against persecution. Using new evidence and thus far under-researched documents, including a memorandum written by Goerdeler at the end of 1941 with a proposal for the status of the Jews in the world, the book fundamentally changes our understanding of Goerdeler's plan and presents a new view of the German resistance to Hitler.