Literary Studies: General

The focus of this study is on the working of Milton's sensibilities and the reader's response to the materials of the poem. Professor Shumaker demo...

The years between 1900 and 1915 were a crucial period in Wallace Stevens' poetic career. But until Robert Buttel was given access to 30 manuscript ...

Utopias fail. Utopias of one do not. They are perfect worlds. Yet their success comes at a cost. They are radically singularand thus exclusive and ...

Taking account of Ford Madox Fords entire literary output, this companion brings together prominent Ford specialists to offer an overview of existi...

A translation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, published to coincide with a production of the play by Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru at the 2012 Na...

Wendy Cope is one of Britains most popular poets: her first two collections have together sold almost half a million copies, and in 1998, when Ted ...

Complete with fresh perspectives, and drawing on the latest scholarship and biographical sources, The Life of D. H. Lawrence spans the full range o...

Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonge...

Honorable Mention, 2018 MLA Prize for a First Book Against the defensive backdrop of countless apologetic justifications for the value of literatur...

The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic pro...

Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind t...

This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion o...

In recent years, the topic of ancient Greek hero cult has been the focus of considerable discussion among classicists. Little attention, however, h...

Post-Petrarchism offers a theoretical study of lyric poetry through one of its most long-lived and widely practiced models: the lyric sequence, ori...

Marley was dead, to begin with. Why does the most beloved of Christmas books open with a death? What has death to do with Christmas and New Years, ...

In Black is a Church, Josef Sorett maps the ways in which black American culture and identity have been animated by a particular set of Protestant ...

The recent discovery of fragments from such novels as Iolaos, Phoinikika, Sesonchosis, and Metiochos and Parthenope has dramatically increased the ...

This book presents the first sustained analysis of the reception of the Aristotelian golden mean and related ideas of moderation in the literature ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Franz Kafkas classic 1915 novella remains one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Susan...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Janet Hodgson traces the life of Xhosa prophet Ntsikana (17801821) from his birth through his years as a Christian convert, evangelist, and compose...

There is a long history in Ireland of performing, studying and responding to Shakespeare's plays. Transposed to an Irish context, Shakespeare has c...