The twelve Gothic tales of this collection span the nineteenth-century South and are from some of the most famous writers of the age, such as Edgar Allan Poe, to more recently rediscovered and now celebrated writers such as Kate Chopin and Charles Chesnutt, to the completely and unfairly obscure E. Levi Brown. Companion readings—some themselves quite chilling—are by celebrated writers and well-known historical figures, such as Thomas Jefferson, ...
This book contains Christopher Caudwell’s 1937 treatise, “Illusion and Reality”. It is a work of Marxist literary criticism that develops the idea that each individual era of British poetry stems from a novel economical paradigm in bourgeois society. Christopher St John Sprigg (1907–1937), more commonly known by his pseudonym 'Christopher Caudwell', was a British Marxist poet and thinker. In early life, he made his way to Marxism and s ...
El franciscano Bernardino de Cardenas ha pasado a la historia por su labor como obispo y gobernador de Paraguay a mediados del siglo XVII. Es menos conocida, sin embargo, su labor previa en el virreinato del Peru, como misionero y extirpador de idolatrias, experiencia sobre la que escribio un memorial del que se conservan dos versiones: una impresa en 1634 y otra manuscrita, que probablemente constituya un borrador previo al impreso. Se trata de ...
