The Empire of Stereotypes

The Empire of Stereotypes
Author: R. Casillo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2006-05-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1403983216

This book places Germaine de Stael's influential novel, Corrine, or Italy (1807) in relation to preceding and subsequent stereotypes of Italy as seen in the works of Northern European and American travel writers since the Renaissance.

A Literary History of England Vol. 4

A Literary History of England Vol. 4
Author: A Baugh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 857
Release: 2004-06-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136892990

First published in 1959. The scope of this four volume work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another an placing each author clearly in the setting of his time. This is the fourth volume and includes the Nineteeth Century and after (1789-1939).

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. V: Later Essays

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. V: Later Essays
Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1994-09-30
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1439106185

Compiling nineteen essays and introductions, a volume with explanatory notes includes Per Amica Silentia Lunae and On the Boiler as well as introductions on Shelley and Balzac and essays on Irish poetry and politics.