Literary Studies: General

Positions the sensation novel, and nineteenth-century popular fiction more generally, as vital to the history of feeling Argues for the literary s...

Explores the transformation of religious orthodoxy in the age of modernism Provides a historical and theoretically informed account of mysticism i...

Revealer of Secrets is a portrayalboth realistic and satiricalof Eastern European Jewish life in the tumultuous early years of the nineteenth centu...

How and why did the Greek city-states come into being? The study of Greece in the Archaic period is changing due to new discoveries and interpretat...

The plays of Seneca the Younger, minister and philosopher under Nero, are today increasingly studied, appreciated - and performed. Here, in a colle...

Dutch Golden Age poet Constantijn Huygens (15961687) was a remarkable figure: in addition to writing poetry, he composed music; was secretary to tw...

Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and even xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's In Light of Another's Word looks...

Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets' debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion...

This study explores how Dante represents violence in the Comedy and reveals the connection between contemporary private and public violence and civ...

A chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, an elderly white woman, and Cub, a British-Jamaican ...

The fascinus, or phallus, was at the heart of classical Roman art and life. No god was more represented in ancient Rome than the phallic deity Pria...

Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948) investigates the relationship between literature and politics during Mongolias early revolutionary ...

Parody often stands accused of producing derivative art deficient in taste and skill. But in the hands of writers such as Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis...

Marcel Prousts seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu), has inspired many superlatives, among them the gre...

Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British a...

In eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet...

Carl Abbott, who has taught urban studies and urban planning in five decades, brings together urban studies and literary studies to examine how fic...

The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the...

The production, reception and discussion of fanfiction is a major aspect of contemporary global media. Thus far, however, the genre has been subjec...

Focusing on such metaphors as communion and cannibalism in a wide range of Western literary works, Maggie Kilgour examines the opposition between o...