Literary Studies: General

First published in 1986, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions makes the case that the Gothic in English literature has been marked by a distinctive ...

This collection brings together the short fictions published in Peter Motteuxs The Gentlemans Journal, one of the main Restoration periodicals runn...

First published in 1968, Jane Austens Emma is a critical study of Miss Austens last completed novel. While often pausing to analyse and comment on ...

First published in 1986, Laurence Sterne follows Sternes life and career from the moment of recognition brought by the successful publication of th...

This book argues for a new articulation of the ways in which transgression is theorised in contemporary literature by Japanese women.Exploring the ...

This book argues for a new articulation of the ways in which transgression is theorised in contemporary literature by Japanese women.Exploring the ...

First published in 1975, Laurence Sterne is biography of Sternes life which emphasizes those experiences which informed Sternes fiction. The book i...

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Young Audiences offers a comprehensive overview of translation in the context of young audiences.The hand...

Der Band 43 der Schiller Nationalausgabe bringt Korrekturen und Ergänzungen, darunter viele Briefe sowie Schillers Fieberschrift (seine erste Disse...

Yu Xuanji (c. 843-868) is one of the most interesting poets in premodern Chinese literature, and her approximately fifty extant poems include some ...

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...

This book investigates environmental issues traced through the epistolography of the late Byzantine period, which spans roughly the end of the twel...

Time, Tide and History: Eleanor Darks Fiction is the first book-length edited collection of scholarly essays to treat the full span of Eleanor Dark...

In Boccaccio Defends Literature, Brenda Deen Schildgen contends that Giovanni Boccaccios significant contribution to literary history remains under...

The Suicidal State theorizes a biopolitics of suicide by mapping the entwinement between the Progressive-Era discourse of race suicide and period r...

Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy examines a revolutionary period in microscopical technology and practice. At first considered a mere toy...

Clever Little Books explores the role of Latin commentaries on the Roman poet Martial as a medium for the transmission of sexual knowledge among ma...

Historians of the early twentieth century often focus on the surveillance of anarchist, communist, and anti-colonial movements, overlooking the res...

Contributions by Ruth R. Caillouet, Mary C. Carruth, Nancy Dixon, Kathleen Downes, Edward J. Dupuy, Shari Evans, Paul Fess, Carina Evans Hoffpauir,...

In Comics Art in Korea, comics scholar John A. Lent embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the vibrant world of Korean comics, cartoons, comic s...

On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliffs Fiction uses the life and work of bisexual, biracial, and bicultural author Michelle Cliff (194620...