Literature: history & criticism books

Innerhalb der Mediavistik wird haufig angenommen, dass hagiographische oder kreuzzugsepische Texte ihren Rezipienten...  Read More >>

In nineteenth-century France, medicine reigned as queen of the sciences. From Balzac to Gautier, through to Flaubert...  Read More >>

Marco Maggi, ""Leporello & Co. Breve catalogo dei servitori di Don Giovanni"" - Paolo Proietti, ""Le passage des...  Read More >>

This book explores the past and current traces that cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals used by humans have...  Read More >>

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Der Stabreim - eine versubergreifende und dadurch strukturbildende Alliteration - ist das pragende Merkmal der altesten...  Read More >>

Set in seventeenth-century France, a secret from the past challenges the union between Iphis—raised as a boy—and...  Read More >>

La mort et les mourants: comment les icônes orthodoxes montrent-elles ces réalités de ce monde ? Ce n'est pas l'objectif...  Read More >>

We set out to read the three books of Peter O'Leary's trilogy on consciousness: Phosphorescence of Thought, Earth...  Read More >>

The Magic Treehouse Tales: Adventures from the Whispering Woods Welcome to a forest where nothing is ever what...  Read More >>

A new edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow, featuring a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories that take...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive collection of short-stories on the city of Venice penned by Italian authors.  Read More >>

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From Brave and Wolfwalkers to Merlin and Dragon Age, Celtic mythology continues to influence pop culture as it has...  Read More >>

Upending traditional Byron criticism to reveal a more relentlessly precise and skeptical poetic mind than ever previously...  Read More >>

This book traces an unexpected journey to Latin America for South Asian literature in English. It shows how this...  Read More >>

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It uncovers the palpable and pleasing anxiety about the human body in the works of Henry Fuseli, William Blake,...  Read More >>

By combining the chapter authors' expertise as literary and cultural critics with their own responses to novels,...  Read More >>

Fanny Tercy (1782-1851) began her literary career under the Restoration. She defended and promoted the genre of...  Read More >>

Under the July Monarchy, Fanny Tercy's work successfully moved towards two fashionable genres which she contributed...  Read More >>

There's more to Spanish literature than Don Quixote. In addition to Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's immortal classic,...  Read More >>

Gathering ground-breaking essays by leading scholars, this collection forwards an innovative feminist theory of...  Read More >>

This first comprehensive account of Daniel Defoe's Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain explores the content,...  Read More >>