Literary Studies: General

In the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its effects upon the literary v...

Composed for King Henry VI in the middle of the Wars of the Roses, Of Knyghthode and Bataile adapts the most widely used military manual in the Mid...

Unter dem Begriff Pen-and-Paper-Rollenspiel oder Tabletop-Rollenspiel wird eine Form des Gesellschaftsspiels verstanden, in dem eine Gruppe von Sp...

Die vorliegende Studie bietet den ersten systematischen Überblick über den expressionistischen Übersetzungskanon. Das erste Kapitel rekonstruier...

Can words be danced? Can dance be written down? What inspires choreographers? How do dancers write? This volume delves into questions like these a...

First detailed reconstruction of Anne de Graville's library, establishing her as one of the most well-read and erudite poets of the period. WINNER...

In a masterly synthesis of historical and literary analysis, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows how medieval knowledge systems--the cycle of the liberal arts,...

This book analyzes the impact of abusive regimes of power on womens lives and on their self-expression through close readings of life writing by wo...

Mirrors for princes form a substantial and important genre in many pre-modern literatures. Their ostensible purpose is to advise the king; at the s...

The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is divided into five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and hi...

Redefines Romantic sociability through a reading of social contract theoryThe Politics of Romanticism examines the relationship between two major t...

This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-level (Group 3) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid VIII, giving full L...

In der Reihe Deutsche Literatur erscheinen Studien und Quellen der germanistischen Literaturwissenschaft vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Es hand...

No Western scholar has contributed as much to the study of modern Arabic narrative as has Roger Allen. His doctoral dissertation was the very first...

This book demonstrates that the carefully chosen Greek words in Persius programmatic passages play a significant role in the context of his literar...

The Dictionary of the Poetry of Walther von der Vogelweide completely maps out the scope and semantic content of the vocabulary used by possibly th...

This anthology honors Lawrence Nees expansive contributions to medieval art historical inquiry and teaching on the occasion of his retirement from ...

Mediating Historical Responsibility brings together leading scholars and new voices in the interdisciplinary fields of memory studies, history, an...

Situated at the intersection between medical humanities, aging studies, autobiographical studies, disability studies and ethic studies, this book e...

Concerns about Haiti suffused the early American print public sphere from the outbreak of the revolution in 1791 until well after its conclusion in...