Literary Studies: General

In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, sett...

Chasing after a family secret--a curious silence surrounding a long-lost ancestor--led the author on a pilgrimage through the landscape, history an...

Minor characters are everywhere in novels. They linger with readers and invite us to infer into the untold aspects of their lives. They fill a text...

As a major source of debate on theological topics such as the resurrection of body and soul, justification by faith, and predestination, the New Te...

Critical Forms is an account of the generic forms in which literary criticism has been undertaken. It examines chiefly Anglophone literary criticis...

Enormous social changes during the Victorian era inspired some of the finest novels in the English language. In the final decades of the century...

This new edition of Homers epic poem is designed with the needs of undergraduate students in mind. The selections, totalling almost half the full w...

Herman Melvilles The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short fiction that he published in hislifetime, and it includes his two most famous sho...

Edgar Huntly is a compelling tale of sleepwalking, murder, and frontier violence set in rural Pennsylvania in the 1780s. His memory and wits shaken...

Examination of text concerning the vikings reveals much about their origin myth and legend. Viking settlers and their descendants inhabited both E...

Richard Brinsley Sheridans last play, an adaptation of August Von Kotzebues Die Spanier set in Peru and first performed in 1799, was one of the mos...

Comparing the radical aesthetic and social experiments undertaken by two exile intellectuals, Experiments in Exile charts a desire in their work to...

Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Ysuf al-Shirbns Brains Confounded pits the coarse rural masses against the refined urban population. In Volume One, al-S...

Rewrites our understanding of the last 50 years of Chicana/o cultural production. Chicana/o Remix casts new light not only on artistssuch as Sandr...

This book targets one of the humanities' most widely held premises: namely, that the European Enlightenment laid the groundwork for modern imperial...

In sixteenth-century Italy, Rome ranked second only to Venice as an important center for music book production. Throughout the century, printers in...

Edgar Allan Poe exerted a profound influence on many aspects of 20th century culture, and continues to inspire composers, filmmakers, writers an...

How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatc prov...

Literary Historicity explores how eighteenth-century British writers considered the past as an aspect of experience. Mack moves between close exami...