Literary studies: general books

Predramatic Theatre offers a fresh, innovative account of the drama of the period prior to the building of the professional...  Read More >>

Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century...  Read More >>

Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, this book shows how the contest between...  Read More >>

This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the...  Read More >>

This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation...  Read More >>

Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester's poems, dramatic works, and letters in a...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary text combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close...  Read More >>

This book re-examines British women's writing in the mid-century and its relationship to public and domestic spaces....  Read More >>

This book offers new connections between Spenser and Shakespeare by showing how their works hone readers' and audiences'...  Read More >>

Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare's forests, battlefields,...  Read More >>

Through sources from literature and film to comics, music and the built environment across the globe, this work...  Read More >>

Essays by Anne Lake Prescott on French and English early modern writers and cultures, from Du Bellay to Spenser,...  Read More >>

This is an edition of Sir Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in modern spelling that makes the text accessible through...  Read More >>

This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers...  Read More >>

This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video...  Read More >>

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Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy...  Read More >>

This book investigates new ways in which writers and artists of early modern Spain conceived of space through the...  Read More >>

The long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in WestAfrica Printed books did not reach West Africa...  Read More >>

Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, this book shows how the contest between...  Read More >>

Organized thematically, the chapters compare these authors’ novels in relation to the dehumanised body, bodies of...  Read More >>

This book provides a brief scholarly introduction to A Game of Thrones, the first volume of George R. R. Martin's...  Read More >>

Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy...  Read More >>

Geometries of Empathy offers a new take on the contemporary Anglophone novel through the much-contested problem...  Read More >>