Literature: history & criticism books

An introductory study of the Pseudo-Senecan Octavia, its main themes, historical context, and subsequent reception....  Read More >>

This book reconsiders Iamblichus’ Response to Porphyry, Late Antiquity’s seminal work on theurgy, which is often...  Read More >>

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

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

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

This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the...  Read More >>

This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation...  Read More >>

Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester's poems, dramatic works, and letters in a...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary text combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close...  Read More >>

This book re-examines British women's writing in the mid-century and its relationship to public and domestic spaces....  Read More >>

Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century...  Read More >>

This book presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age, tracing the rise of a sub-genre of...  Read More >>

This book brings together a range of methodological approaches to highlight royal and elite sexualities the sexualities...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English...  Read More >>

This book offers new connections between Spenser and Shakespeare by showing how their works hone readers' and audiences'...  Read More >>

This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher, Massinger, and Field's Thierry and...  Read More >>

This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency...  Read More >>

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning....  Read More >>

Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped...  Read More >>

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 >>