Literary studies: general books

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 >>

This groundbreaking book explores the life of the forest in African fiction, showing how writers have used it to...  Read More >>

Introduces a new way of understanding influence, reception, and adaptation via the work of Italy’s most famous modern...  Read More >>

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

First published in 1984, The Passive surveys a wide range of different constructions, which have all been termed...  Read More >>

The authoritative guide to the singular career and artistic legacy of one of America's most celebrated playwrights,...  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 West Africa. Printed books did not reach West Africa...  Read More >>

Introduces a new way of understanding influence, reception, and adaptation via the work of Italy’s most famous modern...  Read More >>

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

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The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland's past and future Ireland was Britain's first colony and its first...  Read More >>

The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland's past and future Ireland was Britain's first colony and its first...  Read More >>

This book explores how monsters articulate questions about the sacred in nineteenth-century Irish Gothic literature....  Read More >>

This timely book shows how complex narratives-from memoirs to propaganda-can illuminate and respond to ideologically...  Read More >>

Blending folklore studies, media theory, horror criticism and cultural geography, this collection charts an unprecedented...  Read More >>

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Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

New paperback edition - Sisters Jane and Cassandra Austen were inseparable and sought one anothers approval in all...  Read More >>

Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous...  Read More >>

Nicole M. Morris Johnson analyzes the intertwined relationship between movement and writing in the works of Zora...  Read More >>