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Short Fiction of Flannery O'connor

Product Description: As one of the prominent writers of the Southern Gothic genre in the mid-20th Century, Flannery O Connorused short fiction to explore grotesque characters, Southern settings, questions of morality, and RomanCatholic themes. This volume examines and closely analyzes O Connor s best and least-known works, suchas A Good Man is Hard to Find, Good Country People, and Temple of the Holy Ghost...read more

By Robert C. Evans (editor)

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9781619258747 | Har/psc edition (Salem Pr Inc, April 1, 2016), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: As one of the prominent writers of the Southern Gothic genre in the mid-20th Century, Flannery O Connorused short fiction to explore grotesque characters, Southern settings, questions of morality, and RomanCatholic themes.

Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry

Product Description: Introducing students to the full range of approaches to the study of Renaissance poetry that they are likely to encounter in their course of study, Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the verse of the Early Modern period...read more

By Robert C. Evans

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9781472505705 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 22, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Introducing students to the full range of approaches to the study of Renaissance poetry that they are likely to encounter in their course of study, Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the verse of the Early Modern period.

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9781472508676 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 22, 2015, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Introducing students to the full range of approaches to the study of Renaissance poetry that they are likely to encounter in their course of study, Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the verse of the Early Modern period.

Contemporary Immigrant Short Fiction

Product Description: The life of an immigrant living in America is a difficult one, as immigrants often find themselves struggling with their families, their sense of identity, and the balance between past and present cultures. Essays in this volume review and analyze contemporary short stories by such authors as Junot Diaz, Sui Sin Far, William Saroyan, Isaac Bashevis, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, Yi-yun Li, Ernesto QuiÃ±onez, and Ha Jin...read more

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9781619258327 | Har/psc edition (Salem Pr Inc, November 1, 2015), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The life of an immigrant living in America is a difficult one, as immigrants often find themselves struggling with their families, their sense of identity, and the balance between past and present cultures.

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Product Description: Set in Oregon psychiatric hospital in the early 1960s, Ken Kesey's pivotal novel tackled ideas of institutionalization in a time when mental illness was highly stigmatized. Essays in this volume include a survey of the novel's critical reception, a comparison of Cuckoo's Nest to The Grapes of Wrath, and an examination of themes such as race, gender roles, and early American humor...read more

By Robert C. Evans (editor)

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9781619258303 | Har/psc edition (Salem Pr Inc, September 1, 2015), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Set in Oregon psychiatric hospital in the early 1960s, Ken Kesey's pivotal novel tackled ideas of institutionalization in a time when mental illness was highly stigmatized.

LGBTQ Literature

By Robert C. Evans (editor)

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9781619254237 | Har/psc edition (Salem Pr Inc, May 1, 2015), cover price $95.00

Othello: A Critical Reader

Product Description: Othello has long been, and remains, one of Shakespeare's most popular works. It is a favourite work of scholars, students, and general readers alike. Perhaps more than any other of Shakespeare's tragedies, this one seems to speak most clearly to contemporary readers and audiences, partly because it deals with such pressing modern issues as race, gender, multiculturalism, and the ways love, jealousy, and misunderstanding can affect relations between romantic partners...read more

By Robert C. Evans (editor)

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9781472520371 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 27, 2015, cover price $94.00 | About this edition: Othello has long been, and remains, one of Shakespeare's most popular works.

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9781472520364 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 27, 2015, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Othello has long been, and remains, one of Shakespeare's most popular works.

Tim O'brien

Product Description: A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Tim O'Brien and the critical discussions surrounding his work. This collection brings together a selection of recent representative critical essays on O'Brien from a variety of perspectives...read more

By Robert C. Evans (editor)

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9781619254213 | Har/psc edition (Salem Pr Inc, February 1, 2015), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Tim O'Brien and the critical discussions surrounding his work.

Perspectives on World War I Poetry

Product Description: Introducing students to the full range of critical approaches to the poetry of the period, Perspectives on World War I Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the extraordinary variety of international poetic responses to the Great War of 1914-18...read more

By Robert C. Evans

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9781472510211 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 8, 2014, cover price $90.00

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9781472513106 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 8, 2014, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Introducing students to the full range of critical approaches to the poetry of the period, Perspectives on World War I Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the extraordinary variety of international poetic responses to the Great War of 1914-18.

Moby Dick

Product Description: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is often considered the greatest American novel - a vast epic that combines deep philosophy and high adventure as well as rich comedy and profound tragedy.Â //////////////////////////////////////////////The book and author...read more

By Robert C. Evans (editor)

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9781619254053 | Salem Pr Inc, September 10, 2014, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is often considered the greatest American novel - a vast epic that combines deep philosophy and high adventure as well as rich comedy and profound tragedy.

The Awakening

Product Description: This volume presents a variety of new essays on Kate Chopin's The Awakening. This classic novella, published in 1899, is considered a landmark work of early feminism. It appears in practically every anthology of American literature, and it is one of the most widely taught of all American novels...read more

By Robert C. Evans (editor)

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9781619252288 | Har/psc edition (Salem Pr Inc, December 1, 2013), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This volume presents a variety of new essays on Kate Chopin's The Awakening.

Crisis of Faith

Product Description: Rooted religiously in the texts of the Old and new testament, the term 'Crisis of Faith' is a common phrase that evokes intense spiritual strife and doubt, the eternal struggle between good and evil.Â /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Critical contexts...read more

By Robert C. Evans (editor)

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9781429838252 | Salem Pr Inc, April 1, 2013, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Rooted religiously in the texts of the Old and new testament, the term 'Crisis of Faith' is a common phrase that evokes intense spiritual strife and doubt, the eternal struggle between good and evil.

Sarah Fyge Egerton

Product Description: Sarah Fyge Egerton (1668-1723) is an intriguing poet who wrote a great deal of poetry during a period when women poets were relatively rare. Her career also began at an astonishingly early age: she was barely fourteen years old when one of her poems was first printed in London...read more

By Robert C. Evans (editor) and MeKoi Scott (introduced by)

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9780754631163 | Ashgate Pub Co, July 28, 2012, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Sarah Fyge Egerton (1668-1723) is an intriguing poet who wrote a great deal of poetry during a period when women poets were relatively rare.

Culture and Society in Shakespeare's Day

By Robert C. Evans, Sarah Fredericks (contributor) and Deborah Cosier Solomon (contributor)

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9781604135237 | Chelsea House Pub, April 30, 2012, cover price $40.00

Literature and the Theater in Shakespeare's Day

Product Description: Literature and the Theater in Shakespeare's Day provides students with the background information they need to fully understand the conditions under which Shakespeare produced his masterpieces. Topics examined in this volume include The Globe Theater, the system of patronage that supported writers, and the important actors and playwrights of the time that influenced Shakespeare's writing...read more

By Robert C. Evans

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9781604135244 | Chelsea House Pub, March 1, 2012, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Literature and the Theater in Shakespeare's Day provides students with the background information they need to fully understand the conditions under which Shakespeare produced his masterpieces.

The American Novel

Product Description: The American Novel helps students better understand and appreciate literature through a close examination of great short passages in classic works. Offering interpretations of selected passages from 150 great American novels, this new, two-volume set is curriculum-oriented and perfectly designed for student use...read more

By Robert C. Evans (editor), Sarah Fredericks (editor) and Deborah C. Solomon (editor)

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9780816076758 | Facts on File, March 1, 2011, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: The American Novel helps students better understand and appreciate literature through a close examination of great short passages in classic works.

The Joy Luck Club

Product Description: This title includes in-depth critical discussions of Amy Tan's novel. Edited and introduced by Robert C. Evans, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Distinguished Research Professor at Auburn University at Montgomery, this volume presents an array of scholarship on a novel that is quickly becoming a modern classic, Amy Tan's ""The Joy Luck Club""...read more

By Robert C. Evans (editor)

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9781587656262 | 1 edition (Salem Pr Inc, September 15, 2009), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This title includes in-depth critical discussions of Amy Tan's novel.

Jane Barker: Printed Writings 1641Â1700

Product Description: Jane Barker (1652-1732) is increasingly being recognised as one of the most important English women writers of the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. The author of both poems and novels (including novels containing numerous poems), Barker was largely ignored for many years but has recently been the subject of intense interest and investigation...read more

By Robert C. Evans, Anne Lake Prescott (editor) and Betty S. Travitsky (editor)

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9780754631453, titled "Jane Barker: Printed Writings 1641â1700" | Ashgate Pub Co, June 17, 2009, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: Jane Barker (1652-1732) is increasingly being recognised as one of the most important English women writers of the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries.

Student's Encyclopedia of Great American Writers: 1910 to 1945

By Robert C. Evans and Patricia Gantt (editor)

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9780816060900 | 1 edition (Facts on File, June 30, 2010), cover price $85.00

Miscellaneous Short Poetry, 1641-1700: Printed Writings, 1641Â1700

Product Description: This volume reproduces twenty short texts written by named and unnamed women in the years 1641-1700. These texts, selected and introduced by various hands, are grouped in thematic clusters for the reader's ease - poetry on religion, on politics, on society, on domestic/social affairs and on mourning...read more

By Robert C. Evans (editor)

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9780754631002, titled "Miscellaneous Short Poetry, 1641-1700: Printed Writings, 1641â1700" | Ashgate Pub Co, December 30, 2006, cover price $154.95 | About this edition: This volume reproduces twenty short texts written by named and unnamed women in the years 1641-1700.

Elizabeth Major: Printed Writings 1641-1700

By Robert C. Evans (editor), Elizabeth Major, Jeffrey Powers-Beck (introduced by), Anne Lake Prescott (editor) and Betty S. Travitsky (editor)

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9780754630982 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, November 1, 2003, cover price $149.95

Alicia D'Anvers: Printed Writings 1641-1700

By Alicia D'Anvers, Robert C. Evans, Anne Lake Prescott (editor) and Betty S. Travitsky (editor)

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9780754630944 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, November 1, 2003, cover price $149.95

An Collins: Printed Writings 1641-1700

By an Collins, Robert C. Evans, Anne Lake Prescott (editor) and Betty S. Travitsky (editor)

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9780754630937 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, November 1, 2003, cover price $149.95

Amey Hayward: Printed Writings 1641-1700

By Dana E. Aspinall (introduced by), Robert C. Evans (editor), Amey Hayward, Anne Lake Prescott (editor) and Betty S. Travitsky (editor)

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9780754630968 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, October 1, 2003, cover price $149.95

Ambrose Bierce's an Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: An Annotated Critical Edition

Product Description: The Work Itself: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce -- The Text and the Critical Tradition -- The Riches of the Text: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and an Experiment in Pluralist Criticism -- General Student Comments from Diverse Critical Perspectives -- Specific Student Comments from Diverse Critical Perspectives...read more

By Eric W. Atkins (editor), Ambrose Bierce and Robert C. Evans (editor)

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9780972228961 | Locust Hill Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The Work Itself: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce -- The Text and the Critical Tradition -- The Riches of the Text: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and an Experiment in Pluralist Criticism -- General Student Comments from Diverse Critical Perspectives -- Specific Student Comments from Diverse Critical Perspectives.

A Companion to Brian Friel

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By Robert C. Evans (editor) and Richard Harp (editor)

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9780933951952 | Locust Hill Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $50.00

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