Literary studies: general books

With the introduction of facsimile editions and more particularly, the William Blake Archive, the largest digital...  Read More >>

Weaves the author's own four-month cross-country sojourn in a VW van with thoughts on travel narratives across the...  Read More >>

The cultural transfer of Polish literature to West Germany would be/is inconceivable without Carl Hanser Verlag...  Read More >>

Das 17. Jahrhundert begann mit einer Reihe von Konflikten des Landes mit der Luzerner Obrigkeit, die 1653 in den...  Read More >>

Retrieves Hegelian speculative experience for literary theory. The relationship between Hegel and literary theory...  Read More >>

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Kniesche analyzes historical crime fiction depicting Weimar and Nazi Germany with specific questions in mind: what...  Read More >>

This collection of ""propos"" is a variety of reflections about the manner in which the body was approached in the...  Read More >>

The edition of the General Correspondence of Alexandre Dumas, creator of literary myths such as Les Trois Mousquetaires...  Read More >>

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The Factory Girl (1863) was a cheap serial intended for working-class readers. The sprawling...  Read More >>

Che cose la poesia e da dove nasce? Qual e il suo oggetto e che rapporto ha con la vita? A queste domande il Medioevo...  Read More >>

Weaves the author's own four-month cross-country sojourn in a VW van with thoughts on travel narratives across the...  Read More >>

This volume addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed,...  Read More >>

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This critical anthology, an ideal resource for researchers, instructors, and students, outlines the cultural contexts...  Read More >>

Revealing the profound influence of the Middle Ages on mid-twentieth-century thought and the influence of these...  Read More >>

Poetry has always courted suffering. Surveying a wide range of texts about poetry's relationship to suffering, and...  Read More >>

Blue Book Gentlemen: A Timeless Lifestyle of Passion, Purpose, Travel, and Unlimited Adventure takes readers on...  Read More >>

This is a book of the history of China’s contemporary drama. It provides a panorama of the ups and downs of Chinese...  Read More >>

In addition, through reference to the film adaptation of The Last Unicorn and also Beagle’s other works, this study...  Read More >>

This book introduces the Bible as one of the greatest works of world literature. Ferretter provides a comprehensive...  Read More >>

From Johann Heinrich Füssli’s 1781 oil painting The Nightmare, which was to become the iconic image of a newly emergent...  Read More >>

This book collects new work on Latin didactic poetry and prose in the late Republic and early Empire, and it evaluates...  Read More >>

A new edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic American novel, The Great Gatsby, a story of adulterous love, dreams,...  Read More >>