San Antonio College Library

Cézanne and contemporary criticism -- Cézanne criticism after 1920 -- Cézanne as a romantic -- Impressionism -- Plastic construction -- The art theories of Cézanne -- Passion and grandeur -- A cosmic harmony -- Biographical outline and contemporary events.

There is an unforgivably large number of books on Keats, and although the author tries to justify this addition in the body of the text, he also thinks it is proper to offer some explanation at this stage.

A critical biography of the Scottish fictionist and poet, chronicling his dramatic and romantic travels and activities in Scotland, Europe, America, and finally Samoa, and appraising his poetry, stories, and travel books.

"A groundbreaking biography reveals the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula and traces the psychosexual contours of late Victorian society. Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as his legendary undead Count, has remained a puzzling enigma. Now, in this psychological and cultural portrait, David J. Skal exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon. Stoker was inexplicably paralyzed...

"William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original symbolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of self and society. He was a counterculture prophet whose art still challenges us to think afresh about almost every aspect of experience--social, political,...

"This anthology brings together for the first time a collection of autobiographical accounts of their childhood by a range of prominent nineteenth-century literary women. These are strongly individualised descriptions by women who breached the cultural prohibitions against self writing, especially in the attention given to psychologically formative incidents and memories. Several offer detailed accounts of their inadequate schooling and their keen...