Recounts the first part of Emerson's life, up to his marriage, looks at the influence of his eccentric aunt, and discusses his failure to write anything about his father's death.

Product Description: Labelled "an elegant Jeremiah" by a journalist of his day, the urbane Victorian Matthew Arnold must have received the comparison with the Old Testament prophet uneasily. Writing in the 1970s, Norman Mailer seems to owe nothing to the biblical for his description of a long hot wait to buy a cold drink while reporting on the first voyage to the moon...read more

William Blake and the Myths of Britain is the first full-length study of Blake's use of British mythology and history. From Atlantis to the Deists of the Napoleonic Wars, this book addresses why the eighteenth century saw a revival of interest in the legends of the British Isles and how Blake applied these in his extraordinary prophetic histories of the giant Albion, revitalising myths of the Druids and Joseph of Arimathea bringing Christ to Albion.

Product Description: This is the first detailed exploration of one of the earliest major poems by Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest (1713). The book reveals how Pope used the artistic conventions of the Stuart court, such as masque, architecture, allegorical painting, and heraldry to create the last great Renaissance poem in English...read more

In this collection of fiction and essays, writers in the science fiction world explore our relationship to the future through the dual lens of science fiction and cultural studies and provide a rich testament to the power of science fiction to help us re-imagine reality. Each contributor was asked to reflect on our anxiety about the new millennium and to write about how science fiction could help us envision the far future and future cultural spaces. The resulting array of speculative writings, both critical and fictional, is diverse and illuminating - from a personal essay by Marge Piercy on love, sex and the power of fiction, to a story by Harlan Ellison in which consumerism is the opiate of the masses, to a fictional book review by Kim Stanley Robinson which imagines what future historians will say about science in the third millennium. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Everyday and Prophetic is the first book to describe and analyze at length the prophetic voice and the everyday voice in postwar and contemporary American poetry. Nick Halpern’s commentaries on the work of Robert Lowell, A.R...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book focuses on one of the most debated prophecies of Blake, The Four Zoas. The approach is basically psychological and before the main thesis is elaborated a brief survey is given about the most frequently studied parallels, such as Freud and Jung...read more

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Product Description: On Blake's Minor Prophecies, and other essays, focuses on and points towards the development of the central myth worked out more extensively in The Four ZOAS, Milton and Jerusalem. Here, too, as in the later three longer poems, Blake is deeply engaged with the problem of the origins: attention in riveted on polarities like Descent / Re-ascent, Innocence/ Experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: William Blake and the Myths of Britain is the first full-length study of Blake's use of British mythology and history. From Atlantis to the Deists of the Napoleonic Wars, this book addresses why the eighteenth century saw a revival of interest in the legends of the British Isles and how Blake applied these in his extraordinary prophetic histories of the giant Albion, revitalising myths of the Druids and Joseph of Arimathea bringing Christ to Albion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Many Gods and Many Voices distinguished scholar Louis L. Martz addresses works by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, H. D., and D. H. Lawrence, with brief treatment of the relation of Pound's Cantos to Joyce's Ulysses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Flannery O'Connor: The Woman, the Thinker, the Visionary evaluates O'Connor from the standpoint of one who knew her well and corresponded with her for six years on significant religious and literary matters. More than twenty letters written by O'Connor to Spivey are in her collected letters, and he quotes from these letters and other sources to present a picture of O'Connor as not only a brilliant writer of fiction, but as an intellectual and a student of the great Western tradition in literature and religion...read more

Product Description: Blake's Nostos establishes The Four Zoas, Blake's controversial, unfinished epic, as the culmination of the poet's mythos. Kathryn S. Freeman shows that, in its freedom to experiment with nontraditional narrative, this prophetic book is Blake's fullest representation of nondual vision as it coexists with the material world...read more

Product Description: This study integrates Bulgakov's Jerusalem Narrative with all the themes of "The Master and Margarita" to discover what the author believes is Bulgakov's message in the novel. It explains the content and function of the four Jerusalem Chapters and shows that they are an essential part of the novel's theme...read more

Product Description: William Blake's The Four Zoas is one of the most challenging poems in the English language, and one of the most profound. It is also one of the least read of the major poetic narratives of the Romantic period. Spiritual History presents a much-needed introduction to the poem, but it will also be of great interest to those already familiar with it...read more

Product Description: Appropriating Shylock's Jewishness into the broader field of Otherness, and using The Merchant of Venice as a pivot of its discourse, this book is an intellectual foray into many issues and areas of thought suggested by the play. Topics covered range from cultural history to folklore to medieval philosophy and theology, from politics of the theatre to literary theory, from Jewish history to early modern debates on property, usury, and slavery, all converging in the cultural and theatrical deployment of prophetic riddles in the play...read more

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