Literary Studies: General

This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the reputations of Romanti...

The Egyptian judge and man of letters, Ibn Abi al-'Id al-Sakhawi al-Maliki, who lived in Cairo and Medina in the ninth/fifteenth century and who pr...

Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present da...

The study deals with the Eurasian representations of political unity and their reflection in Russian literature of the post-Soviet period. The idea...

What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orie...

Soon after his death, Vincent van Goghs reputation grew and developed through the remarkably symbiotic relationship evident between his paintings a...

Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present da...

This long-awaited volume brings together much of Brian ODohertys most influential writing, including essays on major figures such as Edward Hopper,...

Science fiction has always challenged readers with depictions of the future. Can the genre actually provide glimpses of the world of tomorrow? T...

This groundbreaking work takes multimodality studies in a new direction by applying multimodal approaches to the study of poetry and poetics. The b...

In the current climate of global military conflict and terrorism, Shakespeare at Peace offers new readings of Shakespeares plays, illuminating a di...

This collection of critical essays applies a wide range of critical frameworks to the analysis of prolific fantasy author Terry Pratchett's Discwor...

The ancient quarrel between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the art...

Phonographic Memories is the first book to perform a sustained analysis of the narrative and thematic influence of Caribbean popular music on the C...

How to Live, What to Do is an indispensable introduction to and guide through the work of a poet equal in power and sensibility to Shakespeare and ...