Product Description: In this study Karen Lawrence presents Joyce's Ulysses as it evolves through radical changes of style. She traces the abandonment of a narrative norm for a series of rhetorical masks, regarded as conscious aesthetic experiments, and considers the theoretical implication of this process, for both the writing and reading of novels...read more

Product Description: There are mystical, magical creatures and gods living in the Moors and Highlands this night that can be scary at times like Cait Sith, the black cat, the size of a dog, that roams the highlands and Cu Sith, the green dog. There is Fir Darrig and Leprechauns who can magically make you wealthy...read more

Product Description: In Transcultural Joyce, a team of leading international scholars assess the afterlife of James Joyce and his writings within a multi-national context. How does Joyce haunt the works of later writers in diverse literary traditions? As a canonical modernist and colonial subject, Joyce inhabits a borderline position that complicates his reception and revision by later writers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looking at travel writing by British women from the seventeenth century on, Lawrence explores not only the significance of gender for travel writing, but also the value of travel itself in testing the limits of women's social freedoms and restraints. She shows how writings by Margaret Cavendish, Frances Burney, Virginia Woolf, and others reconceive the meanings of femininity in relation to such apparent oppositions as travel/home, other/self, and foreign/domestic.

A woman delves into her past to reconcile her broken family and solve the loneliness that troubles her love life, traveling to Canada of her childhood, and Ireland of her ancestry

Helen trades her safe, single life for the perilous role of stepmother/lover, when she falls in love with Daniel and goes to live with him and his three children on his farm

Provides chronologies for thirty-five poets and novelists, including Coleridge, Tennyson, Eliot, Dickens, and Woolf, and includes essay questions and answers concerning their major works

Provides chronologies for thirty-five poets and novelists, including Coleridge, Tennyson, Eliot, Dickens, and Woolf, and includes essay questions and answers concerning their major works (view table of contents)