Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

Greek Tragedy (1928) is an attempt to cover the whole field of Greek tragedy. It provides facts and importantly...  Read More >>

Euripides and Shaw (1921) looks at Bernard Shaw and English Drama as great stylistic changes were sweeping the English...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures...  Read More >>

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Presents the systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their beginnings to the...  Read More >>

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces Tolkien's career-long engagement with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows...  Read More >>

The Use of Hereford, a local variation of the Roman rite, was one of the diocesan liturgies of medieval England...  Read More >>

Featuring work by researchers in the fields of early modern studies, Italian studies, ecclesiastical history and...  Read More >>

Using the epistemological thought of Saint Augustine as the key to thematic continuity, this book reads Pearl, Cleanness,...  Read More >>

Taking a broad European approach, this collection brings together...  Read More >>

Reminding readers of John Dryden’s persistent use of occult rhetoric, Armistead argues that Dryden’s otherworldliness...  Read More >>

The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration,...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume discuss the history of the book in South Asia starting with the earliest palm-leaf manuscripts...  Read More >>

Igor Djordjevic explores the historiography of Holinshed's Chronicles through a literary lens, focusing on how Renaissance...  Read More >>

This volume shows the great range of activity by anonymous lexicographers in Anglo-Saxon and medieval England. There...  Read More >>

The teaching of Latin remained important after the Conquest but Anglo-Norman now became a language of instruction...  Read More >>

Cawsey draws on Michel Foucault's concept of the 'author-function' to propose the idea of an 'audience function'...  Read More >>

Examining the portrayal of childhood and youth in a large sample of medieval French verse narratives, this study...  Read More >>

Using five case studies set in fifteenth-century Naples, Poetry and Identity in Quattrocento Naples investigates...  Read More >>

By tracing the evolution of farce from Pantagruel and Gargantua through the Tiers and Quart livres, Bruce Hayes...  Read More >>

Combining literary analysis and theoretical linguistics, this engaging study provides a critical reassessment of...  Read More >>

Autism, Down syndrome, and other such labels assume that 'intellectual disability' is a permanent aspect of human...  Read More >>

At the turn of the seventeenth century, Hristomir Stanev argues, ideas about the senses became part of a dramatic...  Read More >>

Drawing on history, art history, literary criticism and theory, gender studies, theology and psychoanalysis, this...  Read More >>