Literary studies: general books

This volume is the very first annotated translation of all the titled stories included in the New ABC Book and in...  Read More >>

Employing recent findings in neuroscience to explain consistent patterns in the representation of space in literature,...  Read More >>

English summary: The volume reinterprets Dante's Ante-Purgatory, exploring aspects that 'exceed' and sometimes contradict...  Read More >>

With critical commentary by L.M. Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre, Schooled with Briars reprints six of Montgomery's...  Read More >>

The volume explores through a diatribe thus redefined the interactions between philosophy, rhetoric and pedagogy...  Read More >>

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This monograph offers a comprehensive exploration of Oliphant’s Gothic literature, in the light of her religious...  Read More >>

This volume investigates the patterns of audience response across various genres of Greek and Latin literature,...  Read More >>

Keegan Cook Finberg argues that poetry became an increasingly capacious force in the second half of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Close reading is an essential skill that literature students develop across the full length of their studies. This...  Read More >>

Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racism...  Read More >>

Chicago's renowned translations of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece, collected into a single volume....  Read More >>

This study provides the most extensive survey hitherto of what is known about the edition of the poetical works...  Read More >>

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Ancient fables have come down to us in many forms: They were published as fable collections both in prose and verse...  Read More >>

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This volume explores two fundamental questions: the essence of heroic action and the cultural role of the hero....  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary volume explores the phenomenon of spiritual intermediality in early modern Christian culture,...  Read More >>

Keegan Cook Finberg argues that poetry became an increasingly capacious force in the second half of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racism...  Read More >>

Drawing parallels with the #MeToo movement, this book explores how a series of brilliant female authors in the eighteenth...  Read More >>

The volume explores the ways in which the lottery was imagined in early modern and long eighteenth-century Europe....  Read More >>

Surveys the career of the influential Nobel-prize winning author Ernest Hemingway. Pays close attention to prose...  Read More >>