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The Contingent Self
Both accessible and insightful, this collection of personal critical essays employs a formal study of literature as framework for the consideration of universal issues, including grief management, death, and acceptance of, and benefit from, traumatic change. These topics offer Brackett the opportunity to reflect upon the joys and rigors of scholarship as she considers professional issues, such as academic advancement through publication. They stand as testimony to one professional's belief that academia should not only embrace but encourage a number of approaches to self-expression on the part of its scholars. Her personal commentary draws from the work and life stories of many writers, incl...
In the Company of Patriots
Virginia Brackett seeks the truth about patriotism and loss as embodied by her father, WWII and Korean Conflict veteran Captain Edmund C. Roberts, from many historic sources - journalism, history texts, and military communique, as well as personal documents. Her memoir details her journey to come to know a father lost to an ideal of service. Over ten years of research, she learns about her family's slave-owning history and attempts to escape personal tragedy by moving from Kentucky to Missouri and into Illinois, of her parents' romance through aging scrapbooks, discovers a letter written by her father among a rare documents collection, and hears her mother's words read on a national broadcas...
Encyclopedia of the British Novel
Praise for the print edition:" ... comprehensive ... Recommended."
The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry
Presents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference with approximately 400 entries providing facts about British poets and their poetry from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Restless Genius
Woolf is the author of more than fifteen books, and innumerable essays and stories. She also kept a voluminous diary, an astonishing achievement for a writer crippled throughout her life by bouts of mental illness. Today she is honored not only as an innovative novelist and literary critic, indeed, one of the supreme prose writers of the twentieth century, but also as the author of the most brilliantly argued exposition of the female standpoint in modern times, A room of one's own.--From publisher description.
Critical Companion to Mary Shelley
Provides a biography, entries on her major works as well as her other novels and important short stories with subentries on the work's main characters, related people, publications, and topics, such as Byronic hero, romanticism, and science fiction.
Bloom's how to Write about the Brontës
Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Bronte were three sisters who left an indelible mark on the literature of their age. This book offers suggestions on how to write a strong essay. It helps students develop their analytical writing skills.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Describes the life and career of the twentieth-century American author whose works include "The Great Gatsby" and "This Side of Paradise."
Multiple Pregnancy
From the Foreword by John J. Sciarra, M.D., Ph.D., Thomas J. Watkins Professor and Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Past President of FIGO, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago: "This book is by far the most comprehensive and up-to-date source on multiple pregnancy. It discusses cutting-edge options and technologies, and co
After the Pandemic
Twenty-five Sunbury Press authors contributed twenty-seven chapters about the possible impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on society. Based on their experiences in a variety of fields, they provide their projections about the changes facing us, many of which have already been underway for some time. Included in this volume: Tory Gates: Change and Embracing It Mark Carlson: The Role of Plagues in Human Enlightenment Wylie McLallen: The Pandemic of 1918 Thomas Malafarina: How Are Future Pandemics Likely to Be Different? Barbara Matthews: COVID-19: Through the Eyes of a Grandmother Bridget Smith: Dreams Deferred Iris Dorbian: The Great Equalizer H.A. Callum: Fighting Solo: Covid-19 and the Single...
