Literary Studies: General

Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporari...

When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we m...

In the Greek romances, writes David Konstan, sighs, tears, and suicide attempts are as characteristic of the male as of the female in distress; rus...

The Wen xuan, compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531) is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese literature arranged by genre. It contains a total of 761...

Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained range of action typical of l...

'In the midst of life we are in death.' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world....

Elizabeth Bennet is Austens most liberated and appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austens ...

Michelle Zerba engages current debates about the relationship between literature and theory by analyzing responses of theorists in the Western trad...

Can poem and picture collaborate successfully in a composite art of text and design? Or does one art inevitably dominate the other? W.J.T. Mitchell...

The Broadview Anthology of British Satire, 1660-1750 provides instructors and students with a thorough introduction to the highpoint of British lit...

The twelve essays that form this book, first published in 1993, interpret Bharati Mukherjees oeuvre from a variety of critical perspectives. The au...

For a significant part of the early modern period, England was the most active site of recipe publication in Europe and the only country in which r...