This encyclopedia serves as a guide to the fifty-six stories and four novels that comprise the Sherlock Holmes canon. Arranged alphabetically, Orlando Park provides entries on all manner of people, places, and objects from Arthur Conan Doyles novels and stories, as well as thorough treatments of the traits and opinions...
In D. H. Lawrence, Eliseo Vivas examines the aesthetic triumphs and failures of Lawrences major works through a literary device that he coins the constitutive symbol. Understanding how Lawrence uses the constitutive symbol provides new insight into his world views. Vivas covers a wide range of Lawrences work, including Aarons...
This bibliography lists the books, paintings, and portraits of the mystic Irish poet George William Russell, best known by his pseudonym, AE. Russell was a late nineteenth-and early twentieth century Irish poet and essayist whose first book of poems, Homeward: Songs by the Way (1894), established him in what was...
Internal Evidence and Elizabethan Dramatic Authorship provides one the earliest attempts to write a theoretical method for evidence within plays to help determine authorship or to help distinguish the work of one author from another. Samuel Schoenbaums study remains valuable, for the attempt to attribute unattributed plays to one or...
Glenn OMalleys Shelley and Synesthesia examines a little-known aspect of Percy Shelleys poetry, offering a history of synesthesia and engaging in close readings of Shelleys poetry, focusing primarily on his longer works. OMalley explores the internal structure of Shelleys poems to concentrate on patterns of imagery and symbolism, bringing attention...
The English Novel in the Magazines, 17401815, explores the popularity of magazines in the nineteenth century and the ways that much of the published fiction of the time appeared serially in these publications. Robert D. Mayos groundbreaking study remains important to scholars of the nineteenth century as one of the...
John Donnes poetry is often difficult and perplexing, even more so because it undergoes a shift away from secular topics after he converts and begins to lead a religious life. Robert S. Jacksons John Donnes Christian Vocation is one of the first studies that takes seriously the ways that Donnes...
In Fair Rosamond Virgil B. Heltzel traces the character of Rosamond Clifford, known as Fair Rosamondwhich has its origins as a theme in medieval literaturethrough its use in poetry and plays and novels, from the Renaissance through the early twentieth century. Heltzels book retains its importance today for scholars tracing...
Matthew Arnold the Ethnologist, originally published in 1951, makes the original argument that the renowned English critic Matthew Arnold contributed to the climate of racialism current during his lifetime. Frederic E. Faverty shows that in his essays on national character, Arnold used anthropological concepts of race and language, albeit inconsistently....
Thackeray: The Sentimental Cynicchronicles British novelist William Thackerays ambivalent attitudes toward society and traces his conduct during the major crises of his life in terms of those attitudes. Lambert Ennis examines the emotional tensions in Thackerays life and the impact they had in his work. In so doing, he illustrates...