| Female Poets |
| Women Writers and Poetic Identity : Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson by Margaret Homans Description How does the consciousness of being a woman affect the workings of the poetic imagination? With this question Margaret Homans introduces her study of three nineteenth-century women poets and their response to a literary tradition that defines the poet as male. Her answer suggests why there were so few great women poets in an age when most of the great novelists were women. Call Number: eBook Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Simon Avery; Rebecca Stott Call Number: eBook The Emily Dickinson Handbook by Gudrun Grabher; Roland Hagenbuchle; Cristanne Miller Description Here for the first time, students of Emily Dickinson can find a single source of accurate, up-to-date information on the poet’s life and works, her letters and manuscripts, the cultural climate of her times, her reception and influence, and the current state of Dickinson scholarship. Written by a distinguished group of contributors from the United States and abroad, the twenty-two essays in this volume reflect the many facets of the poet’s oeuvre, as well as the principal trends in… Call Number: eBook Maya Angelou : adventurous spirit by Linda Wagner-Martin Call Number: eBook A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks by George Kent Call Number: eBook Sylvia Plath : method and madness by Edward Butscher Call Number: eBook Reading Sappho : contemporary approaches by Ellen Greene Call Number: eBook Elizabeth Bishop : lines of connection by Linda Anderson Call Number: eBook |
| Top Works of Authors (19th Century) |
| Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) Call Number: PG3366 .A6 G35 2002 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy; Anthony Briggs (Translator); Orlando Figes (Introduction) Call Number: PG3366 .V6 M3 2006 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Call Number: PS1305 .A1 1992 Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories by Anton Chekov; Ralph E. Matlaw (Editor); Constance Garnett (Translator) Call Number: PG3456 .A15 F64 1979 Middlemarch by George Eliot; Bert G. Hornback (Editor) Call Number: PR4662 .H67 1977 Moby Dick by Herman Melville Call Number: PS2384.M63 H3 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Call Number: PR4560.A2 C7 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Constance Garnett (Translator) Call Number: PG3326.P7 .C6 Emma by Jane Austin /David Monaghan, Editor Call Number: PR4034.E53 E4 1992 |
| Top Works of Authors (20th Century) |
| The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Matthew J. Bruccoli (Editor); Fredson Bowers (Text by) Call Number: PS3511.I9 G7 1991 Ulysses by James Joyce Call Number: PR6019.O9 U645 1989 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gregory Rabassa (Illustrator) Call Number: PQ8180.17 .A73 C513 1998 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Call Number: PS3511 .A86 S6 1990 ISBN: 0679732241 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Call Number: PR6045 .O72 T6 1955 ISBN: 0156907380 Pale Fire by Vladímir Nabokov Call Number: PS3527.A15 P3X ISBN: 0679723420 |
| Writer’s Biographies |
| Walt Whitman by Justin Kaplan Description A biography of Walt Whitman providing insight into his childhood, relationships, career, and major written works. Focuses on the ways in which Whitman expressed his philosophies and ideologies in his everyday life and poetry. Includes several photographs taken from throughout Whitman’s life. Call Number: PS3231 .K3 Langston Hughes by Jack Rummel; Coretta Scott King (Introduction by); Nathan I. Huggins (Editor) Call Number: B HUG |