Literature: history & criticism books

Shakespeare's adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare's plays. Using...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare's forests, battlefields,...  Read More >>

This book studies the ways in which three fields of creative activity inspired by the medieval musical performance,...  Read More >>

Through sources from literature and film to comics, music and the built environment across the globe, this work...  Read More >>

Essays by Anne Lake Prescott on French and English early modern writers and cultures, from Du Bellay to Spenser,...  Read More >>

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis...  Read More >>

This is an edition of Sir Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in modern spelling that makes the text accessible through...  Read More >>

This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers...  Read More >>

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare's play The Merchant...  Read More >>

This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking book explores the life of the forest in African fiction, showing how writers have used it to...  Read More >>

Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, this book shows how the contest between...  Read More >>

Eugene Field, Sr. (1850-1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays....  Read More >>

Eugene Field was a 19th century writer who's best remembered today for poetry that was popular with young readers....  Read More >>

Documenting senses of life and practices of refusal hidden at the edges of Black literature and thought.  Read More >>

Introduces a new way of understanding influence, reception, and adaptation via the work of Italy’s most famous modern...  Read More >>

An examination of interrelatedness, influence, and intention in the works of Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau...  Read More >>

Welcome to Chinese Character Test Puzzles for Beginners-a lively, hands-on book designed to make learning Chinese...  Read More >>

Welcome to Chinese Character Test Puzzles for Beginners-a lively, hands-on book designed to make learning Chinese...  Read More >>

Welcome to an amazing adventure through the Gansu Province of China! This book, ""Gansu Province of China, Geography,...  Read More >>

À la recherche du temps perdu, de Marcel Proust, est l'un des grands monuments de la littérature moderne, admiré,...  Read More >>

Thomas Mann gilt als Inbegriff der Hochkultur, als Instanz der Differenzierung, als Prüfstein des gebildeten Lesens....  Read More >>

An ekphrastic experiment in imaginative biography and personal detachment. The Andrew Wyeth Chronicles presents...  Read More >>

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Whether through medical encyclopedias, daily-use almanacs, or novels and anecdotes, readers pursued knowledge of...  Read More >>