Literary studies: general books

A long-awaited translation of a wonderfully illustrated 17th-century pilgrimage guide, offering unique insights...  Read More >>

Through a wide variety of essays on language, history, politics, and culture in the works of James Joyce, this book...  Read More >>

Reading with Jane Austen rereads Austen's novels within the context of the rich Georgian literary culture that she...  Read More >>

Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler's Kindred...  Read More >>

It can be argued that Anglo-Indian fiction is a criticism of the life of the English in India, and of Indians before...  Read More >>

This book explores the interplay of literature, the public sphere and the notion of personhood as understood through...  Read More >>

This is the first work that examines the actions and conduct of both immortal and mortal female figures in the Odyssey,...  Read More >>

This book (1988) challenges widely held assumptions about Victorian culture and shows that its poetry was far more...  Read More >>

Bringing together diverse perspectives from authors situated in both the South and the Global North, this ground-breaking...  Read More >>

Die Einführung behandelt die von den vier augusteischen Dichtern Gallus, Tibull, Properz und Ovid gewählte Sonderform...  Read More >>

Der römische Dichter Martial, Klassiker des antiken Epigramms, wurde bis in die 1980er Jahre nicht literaturwissenschaftlich...  Read More >>

Die griechischen Romane des Chariton, Xenophon von Ephesos, Achilleus Tatios, Longos und Heliodor sowie die römischen...  Read More >>

Im Gegensatz zu den Neuphilologien zeigte die Altphilologie bis in die jüngste Zeit wenig Interesse an den griechischen...  Read More >>

Japanese writers' engagement with kanshi unveils a journey from the Meiji era's mastery of Literary Sinitic poetry...  Read More >>

In a world of religious rivalries and state collapse, how did the looming spectre of the barbarian show what it...  Read More >>

Examines gardens, gardening and horticulture in the work of Virginia Woolf through a cultural and historical lens....  Read More >>

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This contextual guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra highlights the ways in which the play was shaped by...  Read More >>

Examines how early films used medieval stories and tropes to propagate contemporary political, national, and social...  Read More >>

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas:...  Read More >>

Bringing together modern poetry’s aesthetic experimentation and modern philosophy’s attention to the problem of...  Read More >>

About 25 years have passed since the publication of the Supplementum Hellenisticum by Hugh Lloyd-Jones and Peter...  Read More >>

The ""Graduiertenkolleg 1876"" in Mainz examined how concepts of humans and nature developed in the Middle East,...  Read More >>