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Ryan is a bad boy, the black sheep of one of the wealthiest families in town. He walked away from that life and went his own way. Motorcycles. Tattoos. Then there's Taylor. Sweet and pure. He's going to get her all dirty. She's his now, and he's never going to let her go.
| Автор | Jessa James |
Therese von Wiedern ist nicht mit Schönheit gesegnet, aber klug und mit ihren 18 Jahren schon ungewöhnlich gereift. Sie lebt mit ihrem Bruder Eberhard zusammen, der Offizier ist und durch den sie bald zum Mittelpunkt seiner Kameraden wird, die sie allesamt schätzen und verehren. Als «Regimentstante» wird Resi zur Vertrauten und kameradschaftlichen Freundin der Offiziere der Garnison.-
| Автор | Nataly von Eschstruth |
Fiction has become nearly synonymous with literature itself, as if Homer and Dante and Pynchon were all engaged in the same basic activity. But one difficulty with this view is simply that a literature trafficking in openly invented characters is a quite recent development. Novelists before the nineteenth century ceaselessly asserted that their novels were true stories, and before that, poets routinely took their basic plots and heroes from the past. We have grown accustomed to thinking of the...
| Автор | Nicholas D. Paige |
In the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States, ideas of genius did more than define artistic and intellectual originality. They also provided a means for conceptualizing women's participation in a democracy that marginalized them. Widely distributed across print media but reaching their fullest development in literary fiction, tropes of female genius figured types of subjectivity and forms of collective experience that were capable of overcoming the existing constraints...
| Автор | Victoria Olwell |
A central theme in the history of Old Regime authorship highlights the opportunities offered by a growing book trade to writers seeking to free themselves from patrons and live «by the pen.» Accounts of this passage from patronage to market have explored in far greater detail the opportunities themselves—the rising sums paid by publishers and the progression of laws protecting literary property—than how and why writers would have seized on them, no doubt because the choice to...
| Автор | Geoffrey Turnovsky |
The story starts in London, where two friends Kitty Baillie and Isobel Logan live in Isobel's hotel room. Kitty has been mourning her husband's death for some time, and both of them start to feel the need for a change in order to move on with their lives. Kitty wants to stay in London and rents a place, while Isobel goes to Scotland where she falls in love with an old historic house in the Scottish borders.
| Автор | O. Douglas |
While scholars have long associated the group of nineteenth-century French and English writers and artists known as the decadents with alienation, escapism, and withdrawal from the social and political world, Matthew Potolsky offers an alternative reading of the movement. In The Decadent Republic of Letters , he treats the decadents as fundamentally international, defined by a radically cosmopolitan ideal of literary sociability rather than an inward turn toward private aesthetics and exotic...
| Автор | Matthew Potolsky |
Literary historians have tended to associate the eighteenth century with the rise of the tyranny of the clock—the notion of time as ruled by mechanical chronometry. The transition to standardized scheduling and time-discipline, the often-told story goes, inevitably results in modernity's time-keeper societies and the characterization of modern experience as qualitatively diminished. In Feeling Time , Amit Yahav challenges this narrative of the triumph of chronometry and the...
| Автор | Amit S. Yahav |
During and after the Hundred Years War, English rulers struggled with a host of dynastic difficulties, including problems of royal succession, volatile relations with their French cousins, and the consolidation of their colonial ambitions toward the areas of Wales and Scotland. Patricia Ingham brings these precarious historical positions to bear on readings of Arthurian literature in Sovereign Fantasies, a provocative work deeply engaged with postcolonial and gender theory. Ingham argues that...
| Автор | Patricia Clare Ingham |
Compassion's Edge examines the language of fellow-feeling—pity, compassion, and charitable care—that flourished in France in the period from the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which established some degree of religious toleration, to the official breakdown of that toleration with the Revocation of the Edict in 1685. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division: the seventeenth-century texts of fellow-feeling...
| Автор | Katherine Ibbett |
For most of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, classical dogma and royal censorship worked together to prevent French plays from commenting on, or even worse, reenacting current political and judicial affairs. Criminal trials, meanwhile, were designed to be as untheatrical as possible, excluding from the courtroom live debates, trained orators, and spectators. According to Yann Robert, circumstances changed between 1750 and 1800 as parallel evolutions in theater and justice brought them...
| Автор | Yann Robert |
The detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary on «Piers Plowman» places the allegorical dream-vision of the poem within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the work, assessing past scholarship while offering original materials and insights throughout. The authors' line-by-line, section by section, and passus by passus commentary on all three versions of the poem and on the stages of...
| Автор | Traugott Lawler |
Cuando la dulce Loretta Santana firmó el contrato como mayordomo temporal de Griffin Jones, el adinerado playboy se encontró con algunos inesperados problemas: su nuevo mayordomo era mujer y, además, estaba embarazada de ocho meses…Loretta solo quería trabajar durante un mes antes de que naciera el bebé, que sería en Navidad, pero se vio atrapada por los encantos de su jefe…
| Автор | Charlotte Maclay |
It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the New Negro Lamothe explores the process by which key figures such as Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, and Sterling Brown adapted ethnography and folklore in their narratives to create a cohesive,...
| Автор | Daphne Lamothe |
During the U.S. Civil War, a combination of innovative technologies and catastrophic events stimulated the development of news media into a central cultural force. Reacting to the dramatic increases in news reportage and circulation, poets responded to an urgent need to make their work immediately relevant to current events. As poetry's compressed forms traveled more quickly and easily than stories, novels, or essays through ephemeral print media, it moved alongside and engaged with news...
| Автор | Eliza Richards |
Texts by, for, and about preachers from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries reveal an intense interest in the preacher's human nature and its intersection with his «angelic» role. Far from simply denigrating embodiment or excluding it from consideration, these works recognize its centrality to the office of preacher and the ways in which preachers, like Christ, needed humanness to make their performance of doctrine effective for their audiences. At the same time, the texts warned of the...
| Автор | Claire M. Waters |
Musaicum Books presents the Musaicum Christmas Specials. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for this joyful and charming holiday season, for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. Table of Contents: Santa Claus's Partner A Captured Santa Claus Tommy Trots Visit to Santa Claus How the Captain made Christmas
| Автор | Thomas Nelson Page |
Terra natal dos meus pais e avós, Portugal foi desde sempre o destino das nossas férias de verão. À medida que me fui deixando seduzir, fui ficando rendida aos encantos do nosso país. Amante de poesia desde criança – paixão herdada dos meus avô e bisavô, inspirei-me nas minhas viagens por terras lusas para escrever estas estórias e poemas.
| Автор | Sabrina Vieira Fialho |
Concealed in rows of carefully restored volumes in rare book libraries is a history of the patterns of book collecting and compilation that shaped the literature of the English Renaissance. In this early period of print, before the introduction of commercial binding, most published literary texts did not stand on shelves in discrete, standardized units. They were issued in loose sheets or temporarily stitched—leaving it to the purchaser or retailer to collect, configure, and bind them....
| Автор | Jeffrey Todd Knight |
Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of post-Reformation England. Playwrights and poets from William Shakespeare to Andrew Marvell invoke the figure of the nun to powerful and often perplexing effect, and works that never directly address female Catholicism, such as Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander , share a discourse with contemporary debates regarding the status of recusant women. Catholic Englishwomen, whether living in convents on...
| Автор | Jenna Lay |
Rebecca Lemon illuminates a previously-buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, and extraordinary, that has been concealed by the persistent modern link of addiction to pathology. Surveying sixteenth-century invocations, she reveals how early moderns might consider themselves addicted to study, friendship, love, or God. However, she also uncovers their understanding of addiction as a form of compulsion that resonates with modern scientific definitions....
| Автор | Rebecca Lemon |
Ein fesselnder Romantasy-Roman: Jorani ist zwanzig und kommt aus Berlin. In ihren Ferien fährt sie zu ihrer amerikanischen Verwandtschaft und verbringt die Zeit bei ihrer Tante in South Dakota. Schnell verliebt sie sich in Rin, und als dieser ihr noch zur Hilfe eilt, als sie von der Dorfgang angegriffen wird, ist es endgültig um sie geschehen. Doch Rin hat ein gut gehütetes Geheimnis: Er ist in Wahrheit ein Kentaur…-
| Автор | Sarah Nikolai |