Literary studies: general books

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 >>

Embodied Realities offers an overview of queer, feminist, and intersectional recent debates across literature, film,...  Read More >>

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

The study of Roman ethical thought has long been shaped by the voices of philosophers, statesmen, and historians,...  Read More >>

Pastoral poetry has long been associated with simplicity, serenity, and the imagined purity of rural life, yet Virgil's...  Read More >>

W świecie bez gwarancji najlatwiej jest zostac czlowiekiem poprawnym. Wyważonym. Umiarkowanym. Takim, który ""rozumie...  Read More >>

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

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

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

Gaston Frommel présente une série d'études sur des figures littéraires contemporaines telles que Pierre Loti, H.-F....  Read More >>

Redécouvrez les Chroniques parisiennes de Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, éminent critique littéraire du XIXe siècle....  Read More >>

Gaston Boissier explore la société romaine du temps de César à travers les lettres de Cicéron. L'ouvrage offre un...  Read More >>

To understand the cultural and civic life of classical Athens, one must begin with the texts that Athenians themselves...  Read More >>

To speak of Homer is to speak of the origins of poetic authority in the Greek world, for no other figure-real or...  Read More >>

From the earliest centuries of Greek literacy, the Iliad occupied a place of extraordinary authority, shaping not...  Read More >>

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

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

This book charts the Hollywood studio system's genesis, international dominance, and self-understood demise by way...  Read More >>