Books written by Elinor Shaffer

  • The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe
    The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe

    With chapters written by leading international scholars, this book is a comprehensive survey of the reception, translation and publication history of Conrad's works throughout Europe.

  • The Reception of George Eliot in Europe
    The Reception of George Eliot in Europe

    ... sought to open the country [Catalonia] out towards Europe'.13 By the time SM was published in Carner's translation, he had also produced renderings of Dickens's A Christmas Carol (Una canço nadalenca) and Mark Twain's short story ...

  • The Reception of George Eliot in Europe
    The Reception of George Eliot in Europe

    Including an historical timeline and a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources and translations, The Reception of George Eliot in Europe is an essential reference resource for anyone working in the field of Victorian ...

  • The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe
    The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe

    As shown by his private library, in his cultural horizon there was then, among many authors, a Darwinian heterogeneous ... la seconda è quella d'una scarsa predisposizione alla cultura economistica e matematica' (1993c, 82–83).

  • Comparative Criticism: Volume 1, The Literary Canon: A Yearbook
    Comparative Criticism: Volume 1, The Literary Canon: A Yearbook

    Zola owed to an intermediary , Le Secret de Lady Audley , the theme of nervous degeneration which dominated Thérèse Raquin . Retribution through nervous disintegration , strikingly described as ' metaphysical dry rot ' by Miss Braddon ...

  • Comparative Criticism: Volume 2, Text and Reader: A Yearbook
    Comparative Criticism: Volume 2, Text and Reader: A Yearbook

    ... sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association , considers the changing attitudes to what constitutes the canon of literature . A number of scholars and critics examine a wide range of salient topics .

  • The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe
    The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe

    ... Kampen om livsanskuelse, Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag. Wamberg, Niels Birger (1970) Gyldendal og digterne ... on the Politics ofCollective Memory, Osiris, 2nd series, vol. 14. Ithaca NY. Albeck, Gustav (1984) Universitet og Folk ...

  • The Reception of S. T. Coleridge in Europe
    The Reception of S. T. Coleridge in Europe

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, philosopher and critic, a founder of British Romanticism, wrote with William Wordsworth the Lyrical Ballads (1798), which included his great poem 'The Rime of the Ancient...