Literature: history & criticism books

This book offers new insights into the debates of vernacularity, language ideologies, and the decolonial turn. It...  Read More >>

A thoughtful compilation that chronicles a nearly fifty-year friendship with the renowned Mississippi writer  Read More >>

Lucy Powell recovers lost layers of meaning within the prison scenes which abound in the eighteenth-century novel....  Read More >>

Now in paperback , A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces...  Read More >>

This book offers an original reinterpretation of the literary history of British socialism in the long twentieth...  Read More >>

Das Echo ist im 17. Jahrhundert nicht nur im gesamten literarischen Gattungsspektrum anzutreffen, sondern repräsentiert...  Read More >>

This volume seeks—through the work of a number of experts in various fields—to explore monastic life as embodied...  Read More >>

Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England shows how popular English dramatists such as William...  Read More >>

This volume brings together letters written by and to Benjamin Constant during 1828.  Read More >>

The library of Étienne Gaudet has preoccupied scholars in the field of medieval history and philosophy. It arose...  Read More >>

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The book is an interdisciplinary study on Pythian Three, Nemean Three and Nemean Five, three Pindaric epinicians,...  Read More >>

Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation is comprised of eleven essays that examine the Nobel prize winning poet’s...  Read More >>

Der Band vereinigt Beiträge, die auf zwei Tagungen des Arbeitskreises ""Text und Textlichkeit"" der Fritz Thyssen...  Read More >>

Giraldi, in his trend-setting tragedy, Orbecche, first produced in 1541, sought to create a stage-worthy play while...  Read More >>

Starting from the deconstruction of the concept of taboo and drawing on Foucauldian discourse analysis, this volume...  Read More >>

Der vorliegende Band untersucht, inwiefern und mit welchem Ziel die aus Albanien stammenden Autorinnen Ornela Vorpsi...  Read More >>

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The Voynich Manuscript: Secrets of the Enigmatic Codex explores one of the most mysterious and undeciphered books...  Read More >>

In twenty-five chapters by leading scholars, this volume propagates a nuanced understanding of Byzantine ""literature"",...  Read More >>

How artists used metaphors of non-heteronormative bodies and sexualities to resist authoritative dicta  Read More >>

Step into a world where love and legend intertwine-where romance takes flight on dragon wings, and hearts are tested...  Read More >>

Victorians and Videogames will examine how games interact with 19th Century genres, aesthetics, and literary themes...  Read More >>