Literary Studies: General

Drawing on the proceedings of two conferences organized to celebrate the centenary of John Berrymans birth in 2014, John Berryman: Centenary Essays...

Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism develops the theoretical perspective of environmental posthumanis...

Until the Chace Act in 1891, no international copyright law existed between Britain and the United States, which meant publishers were free to edit...

The French Revolution represents a pivotal moment within the history of personhood in France, where gender and national differences provided the fo...

Critical attention to the Victorian supernatural has flourished over the last twenty-five years. Whether it is spiritualism or Theosophy, mesmerism...

Even within the context of Charles Dickens's history as a publishing innovator, Our Mutual Friend is notable for what it reveals about Dickens as a...

This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, a...

Taking cross-disciplinary and comparative approaches to the volumes subject, this exciting collection of essays offers a reassessment of Shakespear...

The essays gathered together in this volume follow the career of the sixteenth-century courtier-poet Pietro Aretino. Part One introduces the author...

This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of elemen...

The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist,...

There is an ever-increasing number of books on improvisation, ones that richly recount experiences in the heat of the creative moment, theorize on ...

Selected by Choice as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title Awarded a 2012 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social...

Proust Writing Photography: Fixing the Fugitive in A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu

This book draws on two philosophical conceptions, referred to with the terms identity and difference in A la recherche du temps perdu, which is ass...

Game theory--the study of how people make choices while interacting with others--is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science ...

By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philos...

Guillaume Caoursin, the Vice-chancellor of the Order of the Hospital, wrote the Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio (Description of the Siege of Rh...

Numerous Byzantine and Western sources describing the events of the Fourth Crusade have now been translated into English. However, the same is not ...

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...

A collection of essays considering developing models and new research possibilities in early modern digital studies.   Early modern digital studies...

A collection of essays on early modern digital humanities by leading scholars in the field.   This collection of essays focuses on teaching at the ...

This is the first-ever English language anthology of zenithism, an eclectic avant-garde movement unique to the Yugoslav region that existed 1921192...