Bücher der Reihe Literature in Context

In this book, established and emergent Jonson scholars react to major advances in thinking about the writer and his canon of works. Generously illustrated throughout, the first part of the volume considers Jonson's career from biographical, critical, and performance-based angles; the second looks at cultural and historical contexts.

Tolstoy's life and thought engaged a vast array of national and international contexts: historical, religious, scientific, philosophical, socio-political, and artistic. This volume introduces those contexts and situates Tolstoy-the man and the writer-in the rich and tumultuous period in which his thought and creative output came to fruition.

Explores the degree to which Fitzgerald was in tune with the social, historical and cultural contexts of the 1920s and 1930s. Highlighting elements of both high culture and popular culture, this book demonstrates the extent to which Fitzgerald embraced, internalized and came to embody the Jazz Age and Depression Era.

An introduction, in a series of short, accessibly written essays, to the key places, people, themes and intellectual frameworks most important to Yeats' development, as well as the production and reception of his work.

This collection of essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive overview of contexts important for the study of Emily Dickinson's writings. The book is carefully designed to provide a clear and authoritative examination of those contexts essential to the full understanding of this challenging body of work.

Author of renowned works including The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton was one of America's most popular and prolific writers. Bringing together a team of international scholars, this text provides the first substantive volume focused on the social, literary, cultural and historical contexts that produced the writer and her career.

The forty-two new essays in this book tell 'the Bronte story' as it has never been told before, drawing on the latest research while offering new perspectives on the writings of the sisters. The works are explored in the context of social, political and cultural developments in early-nineteenth-century Britain.

This collection covers the range of Hardy's works and their social and intellectual contexts, providing a comprehensive introduction to Hardy's life and times. Featuring short, lively contributions from forty-four international scholars, the volume is a contextual reference for scholars of Victorian and modernist literature as well as the general reader.

Comprising thirty-two fresh essays and a detailed chronology, this collection presents Ralph Waldo Emerson in the philosophical, aesthetic, theological, scientific, familial, social and political contexts in which he thought and wrote, and surveys the popular and critical reception that made him a complex national and international icon.

Written by specialists in various areas of early nineteenth-century American life, these accessible essays examine Poe's geographical, social and literary contexts, as well as those created by the publishing industry and advances in science and technology, painting an unprecedented portrait of his life and times.

This book of lively essays examines the life and writing of Auden by considering them in a variety of historical, social, cultural and literary contexts. Written by distinguished scholars and poets with a wide readership in mind, these essays offer helpful and informative models for engaging with Auden's poetry.

Provides an authoritative contextual resource that examines the historical, theoretical, critical and cultural orientation of the author's work. Drawing on an international field of leading and emergent specialists, the collection offers original scholarship on Woolf's relationship to key twentieth-century issues while highlighting ways in which Woolf is contextualised today.

Written by the leading experts in the field, the essays in this volume will appeal to scholars, students and interested readers alike. Encompassing biographical, historical, cultural and literary-critical approaches, this book offers a fresh, lively and accessible presentation of a great many of the facets of Proust's life and work.

Concise and illuminating articles explore the context within which Wilde's life and art took shape, proposing not one but many Oscar Wildes. Contributors discuss the ongoing influence and reception of Wilde and his work, from performance history to film and operatic adaptations, providing an enriched understanding of this complex individualist.

Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked.

T. S. Eliot in Context provides an authoritative and comprehensive examination of those biographical, historical and critical contexts essential to the fullest understanding of T. S. Eliot's challenging and controversial work. Drawing on original research, this collection provides a valuable resource for scholars, students and general readers.

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.

This is the first volume to summarize and analyze the multiple contexts of Pound's work, drawing on new archival, textual and theoretical studies. It situates Pound in the social and material realities of his time and will be invaluable for students and scholars of Pound and modernism.

In this book, established and emergent Jonson scholars react to major advances in thinking about the writer and his canon of works. Generously illustrated throughout, the first part of the volume considers Jonson's career from biographical, critical, and performance-based angles; the second looks at cultural and historical contexts.

Jane Austen in Context is a generously illustrated collection of short, lively contributions arranged alphabetically, and covering topics from biography to portraits and agriculture to transport. This is a work of reference that readers and scholars of Austen will turn to again and again.

Jane Austen in Context is a generously illustrated collection of short, lively contributions arranged alphabetically, and covering topics from biography to portraits and agriculture to transport. This is a work of reference that readers and scholars of Austen will turn to again and again.

This volume examines the various geographic, political, social and literary contexts through which Hemingway crystallized his narrative voice. Written by forty-four experts in Hemingway studies, this comprehensive and accessible text will appeal to scholars, students and fans of Hemingway hoping to gain a fuller understanding of this iconic American author.

This collection charts the vital contextual backgrounds to James Joyce's life and writing. The essays collectively show how Joyce was rooted in his times, how he is both a product and a critic of his multiple contexts, and how important he remains to the world of literature, criticism and culture.

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.

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.

Concise and illuminating articles explore the context within which Wilde's life and art took shape, proposing not one but many Oscar Wildes. Contributors discuss the ongoing influence and reception of Wilde and his work, from performance history to film and operatic adaptations, providing an enriched understanding of this complex individualist.

Written by the leading experts in the field, the essays in this volume will appeal to scholars, students and interested readers alike. Encompassing biographical, historical, cultural and literary-critical approaches, this book offers a fresh, lively and accessible presentation of a great many of the facets of Proust's life and work.

Designed as a contextual and critical resource for scholars and students, this volume's 42 essays examine novelist Henry James (1843-1916) and his fiction in the context of the history, sociology, and aesthetic and material culture of modernity.

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 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.