Castle Rackrent (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Castle Rackrent (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) write by Maria Edgeworth. This book was released on 2016-04-04. Castle Rackrent (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The only edition of this 1800 novel—widely regarded as the first historical novel—to include supporting materials on both the importance of Maria Edgeworth as a writer and the influence of contemporary history on this novel. Castle Rackrent’s publication in 1800 signaled many firsts: the first historical novel, the first regional novel in English, the first “big house” novel, the first Anglo-Irish novel, and the first novel with a narrator who is neither reliable nor part of the action. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the Baldwin & Cradock edition that appeared as part of an eighteen-volume collected edition titled Tales and Novels of Maria Edgeworth (1832–33). It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. Ryan Twomey focuses the volume’s “Backgrounds and Contexts” on Edgeworth’s importance as a writer, the influence of contemporary historical events on her writing (most importantly, the Act of Union of 1800, which united Ireland and Great Britain), and Castle Rackrent’s impact on the development of the novel. These include a selection of Edgeworth’s letters; five major contemporary reviews; biographical pieces; Sir Walter Scott on Edgeworth and her response to him; and excerpts from Edgeworth’s juvenilia, The Double Disguise. “Criticism” is thematically organized to give readers a clear sense of Castle Rackrent’s major themes: Irish writing and specifically the Irish novel, narrative voices, patriarchy and paternalism, and Edgeworth’s Hiberno-English writing. Contributors include Seamus Deane, Marilyn Butler, Katherine O’Donnell, Julia Nash, Joyce Flynn, and Brian Hollingworth, among others. A chronology of Edgeworth’s life and work and a selected bibliography are also included.
Pride and Prejudice (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
Pride and Prejudice (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pride and Prejudice (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) write by Jane Austen. This book was released on 2016-06. Pride and Prejudice (Fourth International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Norton Critical Edition of Pride and Prejudice has been revised to reflect the most current scholarly approaches to Austen’s most widely read novel. The text is that of the 1813 first edition, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations. This Norton Critical Edition also includes: · Biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and, new to the Fourth Edition, those by Jon Spence (Becoming Jane Austen) and Paula Byrne (The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things). · Fourteen critical essays, eleven of them new to the Fourth Edition, reflecting the finest current scholarship. Contributors include Janet Todd, Andrew Elfenbein, Felicia Bonaparte, and Tiffany Potter, among others. · “Writers on Austen”—a new section of brief comments by Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and others. · A Chronology and revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Second International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Second International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Second International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) write by Tobias Smollett. This book was released on 2016-04-04. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Second International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This revised Norton Critical Edition restores the original full title to the 1771 epistolary and picaresque novel. In choosing supporting materials, Evan Gottlieb emphasizes the growing recognition of Smollett as both a major British author and a central player in eighteenth-century London’s vibrant publishing world. In his last and finest novel, Tobias Smollett uses multiple letter writers to create a very funny and nearly kaleidoscopic vision of life in mid eighteenth-century Britain. As his protagonists travel about the countryside on their quest to restore patriarch Matthew Bramble’s health, they unwittingly succeed in uniting Britain across boundaries of nation, class, religion, and gender. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is again based on the first edition of 1771. It is accompanied by explanatory footnotes, illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson for the 1793 edition, and a map by Charles Scavey. A new “Backgrounds and Contexts” section includes selections from Smollett’s popular early poetry as well as important later nonfiction writing on history and the novel and the Anglo-Scottish Union, among others. “Criticism” is divided into two sections and presents the most important reviews and scholarly assessments of The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. “Early Reviews and Criticism” collects four major reviews from 1771 along with Sir Walter Scott’s 1821 preface to the novel. “Contemporary Criticism” focuses on recent scholarship, with its emphasis on Smollett’s connection and relevance to topics of critical interest, including nationalism, colonialism, the history of the novel, gender studies, and the histories of religion and medicine. Contributors include Eric Rothstein, John Zomchick, Robert Mayer, Charlotte Sussman, David Weed, Evan Gottlieb, Tara Ghoshal Wallace, Misty G. Anderson, and Annika Mann. A chronology of Smollett’s life and work and a selected bibliography are also included.
The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television
The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television write by . This book was released on 2015-09-18. The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present. More than 6,000 entries document the vampire's penetration of Western culture, from scholarly discourse, to popular culture, politics and cook books. Sections by topic list works covering various aspects, including general sources, folklore and history, vampires in literature, music and art, metaphorical vampires and the contemporary vampire community. Vampires from film and television--from Bela Lugosi's Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood and the Twilight Saga--are well represented.
The Absentee
The Absentee - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Absentee write by Maria Edgeworth. This book was released on 2009-06-01. The Absentee available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives: his mother cannot buy her way into society no matter how hard he tries, and his father is being ruined by her continued attempts. The young Lord then travels to his home in Ireland, encountering adventure on the way, and discovers that the native residents are being exploited in his father's absence.
