Literary studies: general books

Beowulf: An Epic Enigma (Book I) presents a bold new translation and commentary that reveals the poem as a riddling...  Read More >>

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas:...  Read More >>

This is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. It contains the text of Walter Pater's...  Read More >>

""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

Aesthetic Transaction, Digital Answerability and Literature: Contact Light brings the theories of John Dewey, Mikhail...  Read More >>

This volume explores the early Soviet reception of Laurence Sterne. By reconstructing individual readerly encounters...  Read More >>

This book examines the work of Richard Aldington, a poet, war poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic, and translator...  Read More >>

This classic text, updated with new material, introduces students clearly and effectively to a “gendered” way of...  Read More >>

Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in...  Read More >>

Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late-medieval and early-modern English poets thought about the material...  Read More >>

This collective study of the James siblings--Alice, William, and Henry--lights up their shared intellectual project:...  Read More >>

Friendship: Philosophical Explorations will be of interest to those in philosophy studying and researching ethics...  Read More >>

This classic text, updated with new material, introduces students clearly and effectively to a “gendered” way of...  Read More >>

This volume studies initial attempts by Italian women of the early modern period to assert their dignity and gender...  Read More >>

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This is a new edition of an important collection of Middle English sermons, the 'Trinity Homilies', copied towards...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern...  Read More >>

With selected cultural and literary case studies, this volume explores the articulation of the transcultural in...  Read More >>

Through his journals (19351950), Cesare Pavese opens a door into his life as one of Italy's most influential writers....  Read More >>

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Praktiken, Verfahren und Episteme des Selfpublishings in Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaft treten heute konkurrierend...  Read More >>

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This book throws new light on the question of authorship in Neo- Latin literature and examines the the strategies...  Read More >>

Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a friendly and readable style....  Read More >>

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>