Literary Studies: General

Woolf Writing the World addresses such themes as the creation of worlds through literary writing, Woolfs reception as a world writer, world wars an...

Counternarrative Possibilities reads Cormac McCarthy's westerns against the backdrop of American mythology's two formative national tropes: virgin ...

A comparative study of the representation of sovereignty in paradigmatic plays of early modernity, The Tears of Sovereignty argues that the great p...

Gertrude Stein (18741946) and Truman Capote (19241984) should not have been famous. They made their names between the Oscar Wilde trial and Stonewa...

Before the West Was West examines the extent to which scholars have engaged in-depth with pre-1800 western texts and asks what we mean by western A...

On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is a literary and cultural history which brings to the fore a compelling b...

This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew t...

Essays in Romanticism, a peer-reviewed journal edited by Alan Vardy, is the official journal of the International Conference on Romanticism, succee...

Calling into question the common assumption that the Middle Ages produced no secondary epics, Ann W. Astell here revises a key chapter in literary ...

Written in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners, give a dramatic account of the first ce...

In Untold Futures, J. K. Barret locates models for recovering the variety of futures imagined within some of our most foundational literature. Thes...

How do minds cause events in the world? How does wanting to write a letter cause a person's hands to move across the page, or believing something t...

This volume provides new historical and literary insights into the Harlem Renaissance, returning attention to it not only as a broad expression of ...

Ritual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae, the Heracles, and the Baccha...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Frères Ennemis focuses on Franco-A...

On Making Sense juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is acquired and produce...

When does racial description become racism? Critical race studies has not come up with good answers to this question because it has overemphasized ...

Pagan life seduces me a little more with each passing day. If it were possible today, I would change my religion and would joyfully embrace poetic ...

The Pain of Reformation argues that Edmund Spensers 1590 Faerie Queene represents an extended meditation on emerging notions of physical, social, a...

This book is an edition of the Athenian Constitution, the only one to survive of 158 Constitutions written in the school of Aristotle in the fourth...

Russian Formalism, one of the twentieth century's most important movements in literary criticism, has received far less attention than most of its ...

From the Middle Ages onwards, writers, artists and composers became self-consciously aware of the vast potential for external references to enrich ...

This book examines the representation of community in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories, focusing on the most recent wave of Caribbea...