Literary studies: general books

A wide-ranging study of the rich questions raised by speaking infants in medieval French literature. Medieval...  Read More >>

Volume 50 contains five articles ranging from medieval folklore, 13th century anti-heretical literature, to Humanist...  Read More >>

Shows, contrary to the traditional view, that the major authors of German literary realism not only thematized environmental...  Read More >>

Explores the conventions and contradictions inherent in archetypes of magical femininity - from loathly ladies to...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

Does groundbreaking work on race and gender studies by examining how C. P. Cavafy, Virginia Woolf, and Aimé Césaire's...  Read More >>

Arundhati Roy is a remarkable writer and outspoken activist who has made an imprint in contemporary literature....  Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

This Element investigates the framing of Shakespeare's works in live theatre broadcasts by the Royal Shakespeare...  Read More >>

An English teacher's love letter to reading and teaching, taking us through the books we read at school, and considering...  Read More >>

This Element provides the first comprehensive study of William Davenant's Shakespeare adaptations within the broader...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Theater of Nature argues that Shakespeare combined art and nature in new ways while experimenting...  Read More >>

An intersectional investigation of identity formation in Marcel Proust’s magnum opus. As metonyms for broader...  Read More >>

Why was the literature of ancient Rome so preoccupied with immorality? Arguing that this powerful moralising discourse...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Polish Camp Literature expands the boundaries of Polish camp literature, which has so far been defined too narrowly....  Read More >>

This book offers accessible support and lively discussions of Joyce's novel to curious general readers as well as...  Read More >>

This book offers the first focused investigation into the linguistic themes behind Lucian's satirical prose, revealing...  Read More >>

An analysis of an overlooked myth through the lens of the dynamics of female dominance, male objectification and...  Read More >>

Providing one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Beckett’s poetry, this book argues how Beckett’s poetry...  Read More >>

In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the Comedie-Francaise staged numerous comedies, including plays by Moliere...  Read More >>

Unlike their brothers, who went for personal edification, women with means left their English homes for the great...  Read More >>

Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism explores the entwinement of mobility and immobility in urban spaces...  Read More >>