Literary studies: general books

Attends to the early modern stage as a platform for the creation and interrogation of knowledge and knowledge production,...  Read More >>

Examines the transformative power of repetition in contemporary poetic practices.  Read More >>

What kind of a playwright comes into being when an avant-garde poet moves on to write Christian popular theatre,...  Read More >>

This Element explores Tertullian, the first author to write Christian theology in Latin. It focuses on the primary...  Read More >>

A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London  Read More >>

This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history...  Read More >>

Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain  Read More >>

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

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

Situating itself against the transitional moment of first direct contact of English merchants with the Indian subcontinent,...  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 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 >>

The Prophetic Voice gives an overview of Sulivan’s life and work, compares him to some of the great Catholic writers...  Read More >>

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

Reading David Foster Wallace's short stories through the lens of spatiality, this book examines segmentation, zones,...  Read More >>

This volume provides translations of significant passages in the fourteenth-century Franciscan Nicholas of Lyra's...  Read More >>

Drawing on literature, legal texts, and archival materials from the Italian Renaissance, The Ambassador and the...  Read More >>