Literary studies: general books

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Virgil pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials,...  Read More >>

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The volume explores this relationship from biographical, literary, and philosophical perspectives, focusing on the...  Read More >>

This is the first full-length study to explore how contemporary, Western manifestations of Sufism are represented...  Read More >>

Medieval Icelandic Bodies in ""Tristram ok Ísodd"" examines the depiction of the bodies of the two main characters...  Read More >>

One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume – the first of its...  Read More >>

The first modern editions and annotated English translations of two Latin texts important in literary history.  Read More >>

Examines Henry James’s career-spanning interest in what it means to ""live,"" placing him in dialogue with the cutting-edge...  Read More >>

Inspired by the career of Judie Newman, a genuinely ground-breaking scholar in the fields of U.S. and postcolonial...  Read More >>

The primary source of in-depth information on music learning, literacy, and reading.  Read More >>

An annotated edition of Marlowe's much-studied drama of pasion and politics which gives students a wealth of contextual...  Read More >>

An edition, with translation and commentary, of the transatlantic Latin poetry of Christian Wedsted (1727-1757)....  Read More >>

Examining literature in the aftermath of Chornobyl and Fukushima, this book considers literary genres and forms...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study to explore the unexamined afterlives of Petrarch’s 1347 Neo-Latin epic of the Second Punic...  Read More >>

An introduction to Terence’s Eunuchus, a dramaturgically complex play addressing questions of behaviour still relevant...  Read More >>

This book examines apparently dichotomous aspects of Gaskell’s short stories: her failed fathers and her travel...  Read More >>

This is the first new edition of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations in over forty years. Robert A. Kaster draws on an...  Read More >>

An investigation into how the emotional language in texts intended for solitary women became the foundation for...  Read More >>

What Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and change. Shakespeare...  Read More >>

A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, tracing its life over the last century  Read More >>

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The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

An exploration of how everyday Renaissance practices of folding, sending, archiving, and arranging manuscript poetry...  Read More >>

Explores how Ancien Régime writers theorized public communication through acoustic metaphors The salons, cafés,...  Read More >>

King Arthur legends spark enduring debates about leadership, love, and community, weaving medieval texts with modern...  Read More >>