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Presents critical essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Five essays focus on various aspects of the novel from its ideology within the context of the Cold War and portrait of a particular American subculture to its account of patterns of adolescent crisis and rich and complex narrative structure.
Discover the page-turning 1920s cozy crime murder mystery series from Michelle Salter! 'A joy to read! Such a well-researched mystery. I absolutely loved the unconventional heroine' Anita Davison ‘Death at Crookham Hall is a lovely, murder mystery by a gifted writer’ Helena Dixon This boxset contains books 1 - 4 in the Iris Woodmore Mystery series. Book 5, A Corpse in Christmas Close is out now. Death at Crookham Hall Murder at Waldenmere Lake The Body at Carnival Bridge A Killing at Smugglers Cove Death at Crookham Hall London, 1920. For the first time ever, two women are competing against each other to become an MP. Reporter Iris Woodmore has a big story on her hands when she accompani...
An original approach to four mainstream texts for the study of American literature and the novel in general. It examines the strangely equivocal nature of the vision with which each of them ends, with the central protagonists illogically clinging to their own transcendent image of selfhood.
Wartime secrets, smugglers’ caves, skeletal remains... And the holiday’s only just begun... Summer, 1923. Reporter Iris Woodmore travels to sunny Devon with her friends Percy Baverstock and Millicent Nightingale for her father’s wedding to Katherine Keats. But when Millicent uncovers skeletal remains hidden on the private beach of Katherine’s former home, Iris begins to suspect her future stepmother isn’t all she seems. Police reveal the dead man was a smuggler who went missing in 1918. But when a new murder occurs, they realise the killer is still in their midst – and the link between both murders is Katherine. Could Iris’s own father be in danger? 'The Iris Woodmore mysteries...
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In this important revisionist study, Posnock integrates literary and psychological criticism with social and cultural theory to make a major advance in our understanding of the life and thought of two great American figures, Henry and William James. Challenging canonical images of bothbrothers, Posnock is the first to place them in a rich web of cultural and intellectual affiliations comprised of a host of American and European theorists of modernity. A startlingly new Henry James emerges from a cross-disciplinary dialogue, which features Veblen, Santayana, Bourne, and Dewey, aswell as Weber.