Literature: history & criticism books

Igor Djordjevic explores the historiography of Holinshed's Chronicles through a literary lens, focusing on how Renaissance...  Read More >>

Exploring the relationship between poverty and religion in William Wordsworth’s poetry, Heidi J. Snow argues that...  Read More >>

The history of the book in East Asia is closely linked to problems of language and script, problems which have also...  Read More >>

Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne's poems on Apollo, Levin calls for a re-examination of the poet's place in...  Read More >>

Showing how specific rhetorical strategies used in nineteenth-century British travel writing produced fictional...  Read More >>

These essays tell the story of the declining intelligibility of classical models of (male) friendship and of the...  Read More >>

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary research companion is an essential resource for scholars of early modern history...  Read More >>

The eighteenth century is renowned for the publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language....  Read More >>

Focusing specifically on semi-religious women, this volume addresses a number of provocative questions about gender...  Read More >>

This volume shows the great range of activity by anonymous lexicographers in Anglo-Saxon and medieval England. There...  Read More >>

Presents George Eliot's shorter poetry. This volume includes an introduction, which discusses Eliot's interest in...  Read More >>

Dutch Golden Age scholar Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded throughout the seventeenth century as the most...  Read More >>

The sixteenth century in English lexicography formed a bridge between the glossarial compilations which had slowly...  Read More >>

This book reveals the history of how the vast landscape of moral philosophy was applied to the specific territories...  Read More >>

The teaching of Latin remained important after the Conquest but Anglo-Norman now became a language of instruction...  Read More >>

Citing Milton's major prose works from the civil war through to the Restoration, Walker reveals a Milton who is...  Read More >>

Presents George Eliot's shorter poetry. This volume includes an introduction, which discusses Eliot's interest in...  Read More >>

This book presents a comprehensive theoretical study of fictional and non-fictional narratives of 1984 anti-Sikh...  Read More >>

Analyzing sculpture in Hawthorne's fiction through the recurring motif of the fragment, in its double guise as ruin...  Read More >>

Few families have contributed as much to English history and literature as the Sidney family. This two-volume Ashgate...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume investigate English, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, and Bengali early modern theater,...  Read More >>

Exploring the ways in which transatlantic relationships functioned in the nineteenth century to unsettle hierarchical...  Read More >>

In this major reassessment of his subject, Richard Rowland restores Thomas Heywood- playwright, miscellanist and...  Read More >>

At the same time that secular and religious authorities suppressed women's efforts to read, conduct books written...  Read More >>

This volume contains key articles and chapters which represent both seminal and innovative scholarship on European...  Read More >>