Literary Studies: General

Assessing the cultural history of the dandy as a figure traditionally gendered masculine, this wide-ranging study advances a critical space for the...

This volume studies the profile of one of the most important figures of sixteenth-century Florence, Giovan Battista Gelli, highlighting some less s...

Die Publikation hat das Ziel, Analogierelationen als heuristische Zauberstäbe bzw. als semiotische Universalien anzusehen, über die sich Unbekannte...

The lifetime of Augustus (63 BCE -14 CE) was a key moment of transition for the Roman world. Following decades of civil war, the traditional govern...

Proclus, successor of the School of Athens in the fifth century AD, is one of the last great voices of a pagan polytheistic world in crisis in the ...

Panegyrik ist der wohl prägendste Sprechgestus spätantiker Literatur und basiert auf einem Kommunikationsgefälle zwischen laudator und laudandus. W...

This book explores Grahames engagements with classical antiquity in The Wind in the Willows, including ancient epic, parody (Batrachomyomachia), an...

Fantasy and reality come together in sports, and Jamie Dopp argues that nowhere is this blurring of the borders of reality more evident than in Can...

Scholars have recognized that fake news is not a phenomenon peculiar to the 21st century. While efforts for a more focused approach to fake news i...

Shakespeare and the Law appreciates Shakespeare and his works as expressions of an English early modern culture in which the shared rhetorical prac...

These six poems explore some of the courtly and chivalric themes that preoccupied late medieval Scottish society. The volume includes Sir David Lyn...

Shakespeare and the Law appreciates Shakespeare and his works as expressions of an English early modern culture in which the shared rhetorical prac...

2024 erscheint der 63. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs. Er enthält u.a. Joseph A. Kruses Auseinandersetzung mit Heinrich Heines Poetisierungen zweier ...

This ambitious study of all proper names in the Chanson de Roland is based for the first time on a systematic survey of the whole geographical and...

Considers Tennyson's poems, from the elegiac In Memoriam to the Arthurian Idylls of the King, in the context of Victorian interest in philology. ...

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last deca...

The Routledge Handbook of Black Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive overview of the growing and increasingly significant field of Black Cana...

Many commentaries on the Apocalypse were produced in the early Middle Ages. This book provides translations of two Apocalypse commentaries from the...

In recent years, medieval studies has seen a flourishing of new ecocritical and environmental inquiries to literature, art and culture. These new a...

The ground-breaking and monumental encyclopedia of philosophical terms read through the history of their translation, Vocabulaire Europen des philo...

Actor, memoirist, novelist, playwright and poet, Stephen Haggard was a highly individual figure in the English literature and theatre of the 1930s ...

This book explores the intricate interplay between physical spaces and psychological landscapes in the works of Irish-American author Maeve Brennan...

The Hidden D. H. Lawrence is a new study of the psychological and literary aspects of a great writers lyrical genius. It explores how Lawrence, whe...

Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman wr...