"Twenty-one years after her death, Barbara Pym's novels continue to be read and reread, discussed and debated by discerning readers. Her unique legacy is the world she created, one that is recognizably hers alone. These eighteen essays by noted scholars and critics examine the theme of reading in Pym's books. Through their various fresh approaches to the possibilities of readerly identification, a new and compellingly progressive i ..."
"Taking their inspiration from the heroes and villains of Jane Austen's novels, the authors of these short stories have opened a new dialogue between readers and the enduringly beloved author that spans everything from imagining the secret impressions of Lady Catherine de Bourgh to blogging in modern-day Afghanistan. Whether the stories connect to Austen's canon in context of her original stories or not, each is an exciting literary cont ..."
"This collection comprises selected essays from a conference held at Chawton House Library in March 2006. It focuses on women writers as translators who interpreted and mediated across cultural boundaries and between national contexts in the period 1700-1900. In this period, which saw women writers negotiating their right to central positions in the literary marketplace, attitudes to and enthusiasm for translations were never fixed. This ..."
"More than 25,000 German-language titles have been published in the United States from the colonial period to the twentieth century. This book gives a fresh look at this rich historical tradition, with essays discussing all genres of this colorful literature, ranging from immigrant letters to experimental German-language poetry by Jewish women, from German-American novelists and playwrights to Austrian refugee publishers and a psychologi ..."
American Babel Literatures of the United States from Abnaki to Zuni (Harvard English Studies) von Marc Shell, FraukeElisabethLenckos Paperback, 544 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2002 von Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-00661-4, ISBN: 0-674-00661-5
" If ever there was a polyglot place on the globe (other than the Tower of Babel), America between 1750 and 1850 was it. Here three continents—North America, Africa, and Europe—met and spoke not as one, but in Amerindian and African languages, in German and English, Spanish, French, and Dutch. How this prodigious multilingualism lost its voice in the making of the American canon and in everyday American linguistic practice is the problem ..."
The Making of Barbara Pym Oxford, the War Years, and Post-war Austerity von Emily Stockard 244 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2021 von Springer Nature ISBN-13: 978-3-030-83868-3, ISBN: 3-030-83868-4
Uses of Austen Jane's Afterlives von Gillian Dow , Clare Hanson 243 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2012 von Springer ISBN-13: 978-1-137-27174-7, ISBN: 1-137-27174-4