Literary Studies: General

The stanzas beginning, 'And did those feet' are among the most famous works written by the Romantic poet and artist, William Blake. Set to music by...

From teleportation and space elevators to alien contact and interstellar travel, science fiction and fantasy writers have come up with some brillia...

Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to the decolonisation were faced with an impossible dilemma. How could they redefine their culture...

From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of inspiration for both s...

This collection of essays turns on a shift in Romantic studies from viewing wholeness as an absolute value to critiquing it as a limiting construct...

Spectrality disrupts and fissures our conceptions of time, unmaking and complicating binaries such as life and death, presence and absence, the vis...

How should we read Lolita? The beginning of an answer is that we should read it the way all great works deserve to be read: with attention and inte...

Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by Gérard Genette as one of the main paths of emancipation in the modern novel. Dialo...

Robert de Reims, also known as La Chievre de Rains, was among the earliest trouvèrespoet-composers who were contemporaries of the troubadours but w...

Anita Brookner was known for writing boring books about lonely, single women. Misreading Anita Brookner unlocks the mysteries of the famously depr...

Choreographing Shakespeare presents a hitherto unexplored history of the choreographers and performers who have created dance adaptations of Shakes...

Otheas Letter to Hector, one of Christine de Pizans most popular works, is at the same time one of her most complex creations. Combining a somewhat...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.This volume contributes ...

This work dissects the origin and growth of superhero comic books, their major influences, and the creators behind them. It demonstrates how super...

What would medieval English literature look like if we viewed it through the lens of the compendium? In that case, John Trevisa might come into foc...

This pioneering collection of nine original essays carves out a new conceptual path in the field by theorizing the ways in which the language of ga...

Bound Fast with Letters brings together in one volume many of the significant contributions that Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse have made over ...

Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature   Before the First World ...

In this stimulating survey of the entire field of modern English verse drama, William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot are regarded as the key figures. ...

After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in the history of Western physiognomy, Dr. Tytler examines...

Winner, 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association Winner, 2018 German St...