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1	The Sharpe Companion: The Early Years more books like this by Mark Adkin add to wishlist Chronicling the early years of Richard Sharpe's career, this is the ultimate companion book to Bernard Cornwell's "New York Times" bestselling series. 8-page photo insert & 37 illustrations throughout. see all copies from $2.34! new only from $2.49! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Bloody Constraint: War & Chivalry in Shakespeare more books like this by Theodor Meron add to wishlist War is a major theme in Shakespeare's plays. Aside from its dramatic appeal, it provided him with a context in which his characters, steeped in the ideals of chivalry, could discuss such concepts as honor, courage, patriotism, and justice. Well aware of the decline of chivalry in his own era, Shakespeare gave his characters lines calling for ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.58! \| SVS
3	Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America more books like this by Cathy N Davidson add to wishlist Revolution and the Word is the classic study of the co-emergence of the U.S. nation and the new literary genre of the novel. The book remains the foundational study of reading, writing, and publishing in the new republic and provides a unique glimpse of the culture of early America. By looking at everything from publisher's account books to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.65! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life more books like this by Patricia Hampl (Editor), Elaine Tyler May (Editor) add to wishlist Balancing precariously between history and literature, memoir writers have finally found their place on the bookshelf. But increased notoriety brings intense scrutiny: memoirists are expected to create a narrative worthy of fiction while also saying true to the facts. Historians, too, handle tricky issues of writing from 'real life', when ... see all copies from $13.00! new only from $17.43! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Sharpe companion : a detailed historical and military guide to Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series of Sharpe novels more books like this by Mark Adkin add to wishlist An indispensable historical and military literary guide for the thousands of fans of Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series. Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series is one of the best known and bestselling military series ever. The adventures of Richard Sharpe and co. in the Peninsular War and on the Indian continent have thrilled hundreds of thousands of ... see all copies from $30.05! first editions
6	The Distinction of Fiction more books like this by Professor Dorrit Cohn add to wishlist The border between fact and fiction has been trespassed so often it seems to be a highway. Works of history that include fictional techniques are usually held in contempt, but works of fiction that include history are among the greatest of classics. Fiction claims to be able to convey its own unique kinds of truth. But unless a reader knows in ... see all copies from $2.30! new only from $2.35! \| SVS
7	A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald more books like this by Kirk Curnutt (Editor) add to wishlist Although perceived in his own day as a lightweight chronicler of 1920s trends and fads, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is now recognized as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. Whether for his classic novels (The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night), his frequently anthologized short stories ("Babylon Revisited," "Bernice ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98! \| SVS
8	Jack Aubrey Commands: An Historical Companion to the World of Patrick O'Brian more books like this by Brian Lavery, Peter Weir (Foreword by) add to wishlist Respected naval historian Brian Lavery explores the historical frame-work of the Patrick O'Brian novels by examining the facts behind the narrative and putting the key episodes in context while detailing naval life in the era of Nelson and Napoleon. see all copies from $12.99! new only from $30.00!
9	Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture: An Essay on the Narration of Social Realities more books like this by Richard Handler, Daniel A Segal add to wishlist With a new introduction by the authors, this paperback edition of Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture takes the complete body of work of a major novelist as the basis for rethinking ethnographic representation and cross-cultural analysis. see all copies from $2.06! new only from $27.32! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing more books like this by Dean J Franco add to wishlist In "Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing", Dean J. Franco offers a comparative approach to ethnic literature that begins by accounting for the intrinsic historical, geographical, and political contingencies of different American cultures. These contingencies, he argues, dictate critical perspectives ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $17.45! \| first editions
11 view cover	Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History more books like this by Michael P Steinberg add to wishlist This book is the first to consider the presence of history and the question of historical practice in Walter Benjamin's work.Some of the essays analyze Benjamin's writings in cultural history and the philosophy of history. Others connect his historical and theoretical practices to issues in contemporary feminism and post-colonial studies, and to ... see all copies from $21.29! new only from $21.29!
12 view cover	Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History more books like this by Noah Heringman (Editor) add to wishlist Although "romantic science" may sound like a paradox, much of the romance surrounding modern science -- the mad scientist, the intuitive genius, the utopian transformation of nature -- originated in the Romantic period. Romantic Science traces the literary and cultural politics surrounding the formation of the modern scientific disciplines ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $18.50! \| SVS
13	In Pursuit of Gotham: Culture and Commerce in New York more books like this by William R Taylor add to wishlist In every epoch, one great city has commanded attention through its ability to rise above material circumstances and express something new and original about its times--Athens, Rome, and Byzantium in antiquity, and Florence, Paris, and London in more recent times. Now one of America's most original cultural historians places New York among these ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	History in Literature: A Reader's Guide to 20th Century History and the Literatu more books like this by Edward Quinn add to wishlist As one would expect, writers are influenced by their exposure to the major ideas, events and people of their lifetime as well as by history. To whatever degree they may embrace or, alternatively, attempt to hide from what happens in the world around them, writers work in the context of their time and their books reflect much about society and the ... see all copies from $2.84! new only from $6.94! \| SVS
15 view cover	Commissioned Spirits: The Shaping of Social Motion in Dickens, Carlyle, Melville, and Hawthorne more books like this by Professor Jonathan Arac add to wishlist see all copies from $3.22! new only from $4.70! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Swan and Shadow: Yeats's Dialogue with History more books like this add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.20! \| first editions
17 view cover	Jamaica Kincaid, Where Land Meets more books like this by Professor Moira Ferguson add to wishlist This text examines Kincaid's early experimental prose fiction, "At the Bottom of the River", "Annie John"; her autobiographical polemic "A Small Place" and "Lucy"; and "Ovando" about the ruthless Spanish conquistador. It identifies Kincaid's use of the "doubled mother" pattern in her writing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions
18	Ezra Pound and History more books like this by Marianne Korn (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! new only from $5.00! \| SVS
19 view cover	Charlotte Bronte: The Imagination in History more books like this by Heather Glen add to wishlist This stimulating study of Charlotte Bronte's novels draws on extensive original research in a range of early Victorian writings, on subjects ranging from women's day-dreaming to sanitary reform, from the Great Exhibition to early Victorian religious thought. It is not, however, merely a study of context. Through a close consideration of the ways ... see all copies from $29.16! new only from $39.35! \| SVS
20 view cover	Sarah Orne Jewett, an American Persephone more books like this by Sarah Way Sherman add to wishlist The tale of Demeter and Persephone, a central myth of Victorian women's culture, is used to interpret the life and work of a 19th-century Maine writer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.75! \| first editions
21 view cover	Between the Psyche and the Polis: Refiguring History in Literature and History more books like this by Michael Rossington (Editor), Anne Whitehead (Editor) add to wishlist Organized around key thinkers ranging from Freud and Marx to Derrida and Lacan, this volume of essays shows how history is being refigured in contemporary literary, cultural and theoretical studies. see all copies from $3.18! new only from $7.98!
22 view cover	A Natural History of Pragmatism: The Fact of Feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein more books like this by Joan Richardson add to wishlist Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various branches of the natural sciences and traces the development of Jamesian pragmatism from the late nineteenth century through modernism, following its pointings ... see all copies from $9.65! new only from $9.65! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Interpreting Events more books like this by Paul Hernadi add to wishlist Since World War I, Paul Hernadi says, a new kind of historical drama has emerged--one in which history is conspicuously ficitonalized. In this book, Hernadi looks closely at developments in the genre of historical drama since 1920, showing how some of the most successful plays of the twentieth century have underscored the parallels between ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	An Obsession with History: Russian Writers Confront the Past more books like this by Andrew Wachtel add to wishlist The author traces the role of Russian literature over two hundred years in creating and sustaining the notion of the singularity of their own history and of its relationship to the history of the outside world.The author describes the development of this tradition through an analysis of major works including Karamzin's History of the Russian State ... see all copies from $7.13! new only from $7.13!
25 view cover	The Myth of Elizabeth more books like this by Thomas S Freeman, Susan Doran add to wishlist Elizabeth I is one of England's most admired and celebrated rulers. She is also one of its most iconic. This wide ranging interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the origins and development of the image and myths that came to surround the Virgin Queen. The essays question the prevailing assumptions about the mythic Elizabeth and challenge ... see all copies from $26.00! new only from $35.72! \| SVS

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