ENGL C101 Guide for Laura Vasquez: Books

Rachel Feder interprets Frankenstein and Mathilda within a series of provocative frameworks including Shelley's experiences of motherhood and maternal loss, twentieth-century feminists'interests in and attachments to Mary Shelley, and the critic's own experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood.

Discusses the writing of Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad. Includes critical essays on the work and a brief biography of the author.

Critical essays on Chinua Achebe's "Things fall apart."

As Mary Lowe-Evans observes in this unique and exciting new historicist reading of the novel, nothing so clearly reveals Frankenstein's ambivalent position between Romantic liberte and Victorian limitations as its treatment of conventional marriage.

Each new volume is a biographical and critical review of one of the world's most important writers with expert analysis by Harold Bloom.

Frankenstein and Its Classics is the first collection of scholarship dedicated to how Frankenstein and works inspired by it draw on ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, philosophy, and myth.

Discusses the writing of Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad. Includes critical essays on the work and a brief biography of the author.

Heart of Darkness raises important questions about colonialism and narrative theory. wide range of theoretical approaches are also represented, examining Conrad's text in terms of cultural, historical, textual, stylistic, narratological, post-colonial, feminist, and reader-response criticism.

By situating Joseph Conard's work in relation to other writings on "primitive" peoples, this work attempts to show how Conrad's fiction draws on prominent anthropological and biological dilemmas. He constantly posed the question of how to bridge conceptual and cultural gaps between various peoples.

Includes critical essays on William Shakespeare's The Tempest; Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe; Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre; Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness; Rudyard Kipling's Kim; James Joyce's Ulysses; E.M. Forster's A passage to India; and, Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses.

Postcolonial Conrad not only presents fresh readings of his novels of imperialism, but also maps and analyzes the interpretative tradition they have generated.

Critical essays on Chinua Achebe's "Things fall apart."

Each new volume is a biographical and critical review of one of the world's most important writers with expert analysis by Harold Bloom.