Literary Studies: General

A Twentieth-century Japanese Zen Masters Commentary on Shdöka (Cheng tao ke), the famous poem by the Great Seventh-century Chinese Chan master, Yka...

The biography and writings of Ho Nansorhon (15631589), one of the finest poets of the entire Choson dynasty, who wrote during the Golden Age of Sin...

This study of the poetry and drama of Percy Bysshe Shelley reads the letters and their biographical contexts to shed light on the poetry, tracing t...

In this provocative study, Michael Soto examines African American cultural forms through the lens of census history to tell the story of how U.S. o...

Highlights the unique relationship between popular culture and international relations

First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This third volume cont...

First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This sixth volume cont...

In 1960, when World War II might seem to have been receding into history, a number of artists and writers instead turned back to it. They chose to ...

John Conteh-Morgan explores the multiple ways in which African and Caribbean theatres have combined aesthetic, ceremonial, experimental, and avant-...

Essays investigating the question of time, and how it was perceived, both in philosophical/religious terms, and in reality. How was time experienc...

THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE HANDBOOK Never a dull read, Marshall Grossmans elegant volume bristles with sharp ideas to inform, stimulate and...

THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE HANDBOOK Never a dull read, Marshall Grossmans elegant volume bristles with sharp ideas to inform, stimulate and...

Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry This authoritative yet accessible book carries the reader deep into the rewards of modern poetry. ONeill...

An examination of what dialogues and direct speech in Old Norse literature can convey and mean, beyond their immediate face-value. The vast and di...

The Philosopher's English King offers a close reading of the Henriad, presenting Shakespeare's teaching on political authority and contributing to ...

Dramatic performances at the universities in early modern England have usually been regarded as insular events, completely removed from the plays o...

This is a 7 volume facsimile reprint collection of three important but difficult to find editions of The Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory, two publis...

The Routledge Anthology of British Women Playwrights, 1777-1843 brings together ten eclectic plays by female dramatists and writers, to stimulate a...

Georg Forster (17541794) was famous during his lifetime, notorious after his death, and largely forgotten by the later nineteenth century. Remember...

Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers explores the response of Israels Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon to the privileged position of the Song of Songs in Israeli cu...

First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This fourth volume con...

From Restoration poets and playwrights Dryden, Rochester and Behn, through to the great eighteenth-century novelists and satirists Richardson, Burn...

Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be d...