b'24 CRITICAL INSIGHTS: AUTHORS LiteratureGeoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer, fourteenth-century master storyteller and comic genius, was the greatest English author of the Middle Ages. This volume includes essays that help explain why Chaucer is called the father of English LITERATURE BEST SELLER! BEST SELLER! John Cheever March 2017 | Print ISBN: 978-1-68217-256-8 | Library Price: $105letters. Essay topics include Chaucer as an international poet, gender and horror in The Canterbury Tales, Chaucers links to Shakespeare, among many others.Essays discuss the basic facts of Cheevers life and critical reputation, a man prone to self-invention andself-mythologizing. Though his version of his life was long accepted as fact, after his death it has been complicated by unflattering revelations in his daughters memoirs, his published journals, and two biographies. Other essays discuss Cheevers decorous style, fragmented structure, and fascination with language.CRITICAL INSIGHTS: AUTHORSSeptember 2011 | Print ISBN: 978-1-58765-827-3 | Library Price: $105CRITICALKate Chopin NEW! Fall 2025INSIGHTS Kate ChopinEncompassing such seminal works as The Awakening, The Story of an Hour, and Dsires Baby, this volume offers a fresh and nuanced perspective on Kate Chopins literary genius. Articles shed light on the prevailing attitudes and societal norms that shaped her narratives. Employing feminist theory, psychoanalytic criticism, and postcolonial studies, the essays in this volume unravel the intricate layers of meaning embedded within Chopins texts. PRINTED INFULL COLOR August 2025 | Print ISBN: 979-8-89179-136-7 | Library Price: $105NEW!Joseph ConradAn excellent guide to the life and works of this important writer. ARBAPolish-British writer Joseph Conrad was known for his adventurous talesmany of them based on his BEST SELLER! BEST SELLER! experiences as a merchant marineas well as his anti-heroic characters and exploration of human psychology in a European-dominated world. Essays in this volume profile Conrads political beliefs, examine his narrative style, and analyze his most renowned stories, including Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim.Charles Dickens December 2016 | Print ISBN: 978-1-68217-114-1 | Library Price: $105This volume brings together a variety of new, classic, and contemporary essays on Dickens most widely read works. Essays celebrate Dickens dramatic and imaginative powers, his characters capacity to achieve selflessness in love, and Dickens realism and childlike awe of the world.October 2010 | Print ISBN: 978-1-58765-691-0 | Library Price: $105Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinsons poetry, letters, and life have astounded readers and scholars alike for more than one hundred years. By turns strangely intimate, witty, sardonic, ebullient, and frighteningly sublime, her poems have fascinated generations of readers and generated endless speculation about the poets mind and life.Frederick Douglass October 2010 | Print ISBN: 978-1-58765-695-8 | Library Price: $105Well-researched and well-written critical essays. Highly Recommended. CHOICEAs a former slave who became a powerful writer, orator, social critic, and abolitionist leader, Frederick Douglass is one of nineteenth-century Americas most important figures. This volume offers new perspectives on the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself and What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, among other works.It also explores Douglass continuing literary legacy in the global twenty-first century. July 2020 | Print ISBN: 978-1-64265-665-7|Library Price: $105George EliotAn ample foundation for beginning scholars of Eliot. ARBAMary Ann Evans, also known as George Eliot, published under a male pen name during the Victorian Era to ensure her fiction was taken as seriously as her male counterparts. This volume of critical essays compares Eliot to those male contemporaries, and studies some of her greatest works, including Silas Marner, Middlemarch, and The Mill on the Floss. T. S. Eliot March 2016 | Print ISBN: 978-1-61925-838-9 | Library Price: $105This collection provides a variety of materials to approach this influential writer: overviews of his career and his importance; relevant contexts, critical reception and interpretive choices; a critical analysis of Eliots writing, his drama, and the whole range of his poetry from early to late in his career.October 2009 | Print ISBN: 978-1-58765-606-4 | Library Price: $105 FREE eBooks are also available - visit www.salempress.com for more information All Critical Insights titles come with free online access Online AccessFREEGET ONLINE ACCESS(800) 221-1592 WITH YOUR PRINT BUY! www.salempress.com2024-433 Salem Spring 2025 Catalog.indd 24 2024-12-12 12:24PM'