Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies

Helen Thomas' study opens a new avenue for Romanticism by exploring connections with literature produced by slaves, slave owners, abolitionists and radical dissenters between 1770 and 1830. In the first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to writings of the African diaspora, she investigates English literary Romanticism in the context of a transatlantic culture, and African culture in the context of eighteenth-century Britain. In so doing, she reveals an intertextual dialogue between two diverse yet equally rich cultural spheres, and their corresponding systems of thought, epistemology and expression.

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The Passionate Fictions of Eliza Haywood: Essays on Her Life and Work

" The most prolific woman writer of the eighteenth century, Eliza Haywood (1693-1756?) was a key player in the history of the English novel. Along with her contemporary Defoe, she did more than any other writer to create a market for fiction prior to the emergence of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett. Also one of Augustan England's most popular authors, Haywood came to fame in 1719 with the publication of her first novel, Love in Excess. In addition to writing fiction, she was a playwright, translator, bookseller, actress, theater critic, and editor of The Female Spectator, the first English periodical written by women for women.

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Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays

"Here is more proof that almost everybody is wild about Harry--academics as well as the hundreds and thousands of children, parents, teachers, and librarians around the world who have been charmed by this young wizard-in-training. This sampling of scholarly essays will inform a thoughtful adult reader's appreciation of the Harry Potter books as literature and as a publishing phenomenon."-Virginia A. Walter Associate Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Information Studies

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The Novels of Oe Kenzaburo

"Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty."- CHOICE, R. L. Copeland, Washington University "This review of his works and thoughts is undoubtedly the best primer now available for those wanting an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of a thinker and writer who has always had something of weight to say about today's Japan." - IAN McARTHUR, The University of Sydney, JOSA Vol. 41 (2009).

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Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story

"Lionel Trilling once wrote that literature makes us aware of 'the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.' Jackson has gathered between these covers Brazilian masters of subversion from Machado de Assis in the 19th Century to our contemporaries such as Lygia Fagundes Telles, Nélida Pinon and Moacyr Scliar. The translations are impeccable and Jackson's introductions are helpful and reliable road maps. What bounty!"--Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg, University of Toronto.

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Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism

This updated and expanded second edition of Cart's already lively and comprehensive history of young adult literature (1996) is an essential resource. It is divided into two sections ("That Was Then" and "This Is Now"), and the author once again discusses the history and current moment to offer a broad and loving overview of the rich literature. Cart provides the historical context and earliest examples of books with teenaged protagonists, titles popular with teen readers, and, finally, the materials marketed specifically to young adults, from formulaic romance to edgier, grittier realism. He then moves on to considering how the field has changed in reaction to social, literary, and educational forces.

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Wound Care Certification Study Guide

Certification in wound care is formal recognition of a master level of knowledge. It is a way to increase one’s professional image, and give both patients and colleagues the confidence that the clinician providing wound care has the expertise to do so. Since the inception of certification in wound care, clinicians have asked, “What is the best way to prepare for the certification examination?” The proliferation of high quality textbooks is evidence of the maturation of the field, but further challenges the process of identifying the core information one needs to master.

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