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Literature in Context

Understanding of literary texts can be greatly enhanced by an appreciation of the context within which their authors lived and worked. Each of these volumes focuses on an individual writer, offering lively, accessible and relatively short essays, by leading scholars, on the many contexts - literary, political, intellectual, social and cultural - that have a bearing on his or her work. Biographical and literary influences on the writer, publishing history and the creative afterlife of the work are also addressed. The first volumes in the series include major writers from Ben Jonson to James Joyce, from Milton to Joseph Conrad. Future volumes will focus on Chaucer, Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson and Marcel Proust, among many others. Each volume offers comprehensive information and comment to clarify and illuminate the life and work of the literary figure concerned.

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  • August Wilson in Context

    Long, Khalid Y.
    Wooden, Isaiah Matthew
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    Wilson, Ross
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    Dubois, Martin
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  • Oliver Goldsmith in Context

    Griffin, Michael
    O'Shaughnessy, David
    Published: November 2024

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  • Goethe in Context

    Lee, Charlotte
    Published: May 2024

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  • Jonathan Swift in Context

    Hone, Joseph
    Rogers, Pat
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  • Robert Lowell In Context

    Austenfeld, Thomas
    Kość, Grzegorz
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  • Pirandello in Context

    Gaborik, Patricia
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  • W. G. Sebald in Context

    Schütte, Uwe
    Published: September 2023

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  • Wilkie Collins in Context

    Baker, William
    Nemesvari, Richard
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  • Susan Glaspell in Context

    Gainor, J. Ellen
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  • Daniel Defoe in Context

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    Justice, George
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  • Salman Rushdie in Context

    Stadtler, Florian
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  • Chekhov in Context

    Corrigan, Yuri
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  • Elizabeth Bishop in Context

    Cleghorn, Angus
    Ellis, Jonathan
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  • Roberto Bolaño In Context

    Monroe, Jonathan B.
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  • Tolstoy in Context

    Berman, Anna A.
    Published: December 2022

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  • David Foster Wallace in Context

    Hayes-Brady, Clare
    Published: December 2022

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  • Langston Hughes in Context

    Kutzinski, Vera M.
    Reed, Anthony
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  • Molière in Context

    Clarke, Jan
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