Literary Studies: General

All you have do is shut up and enjoy the hospitality. TerryHarold Pinters Party Time (1991) is an extraordinary distillation of the playwrights key...

Since the late eighteenth century, writers and thinkers have used the idea of loveoften unrequited or impossible loveto comment on the changing cul...

An exploration of Russian realist fiction reveals a preoccupation with the absolutist state. The nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to o...

Winner of the Childrens Literature Association Edited Book AwardFrom the jaded, wired teenagers of M.T. Anderson's Feed to the spirited young rebel...

The medieval Welsh bardic grammars were composed and transmitted during a period of intense social and political change in Wales. These documents, ...

Biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers knew the novelist James Salter (19252015) during the last decade of his life, visited him twice on Long Island...

This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular on how the hist...

David Drake is recognized as one of the United States most accomplished nineteenth-century potters. Yet, though his potsmany inscribed with origina...

The plight of the fallen woman is one of the salient themes of nineteenth-century art and literature; indeed, the ubiquity of the trope galvanized ...

This book identifies a corpus of British and Polish texts that share correspondences with reference to the themes of feminine doubling, the difficu...

Throughout the nineteenth century, Native and non-Native women writers protested U.S. government actions that threatened indigenous peoples existen...

The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies takes an important place in the scholarly landscape by bringing together a compelling collection of essa...

The first book-length study of Wang Wenxing in English offering biographic, cultural, textual, literary, and linguistic readings of his work. The e...

Essays about teaching postwar Japanese fiction in its cultural and historical contexts.As Japan moved from the devastation of 1945 to the economic ...

Essays about teaching postwar Japanese fiction in its cultural and historical contexts.As Japan moved from the devastation of 1945 to the economic ...

Collecting is usually understood as an activity that bestows permanence, unity, and meaning on otherwise scattered and ephemeral objects. In The Re...

Essays featuring twentieth-century Korean thought on literature and culture.Faced with dramatic social and political changes, Korean writers of the...

How the study of Shakespeares legacy, specifically in film and television, can radically challenge what we consider to be authentically Shakespeare...

By the close of the eighteenth century, learning to read and write became closely associated with learning about the material world, and a vast arr...

Throughout American history there has been an oddly close relationship between the seductive appeals of narrative fiction and those of political rh...

During the Cold War, determined translators and publishers based in the Soviet Union worked together to increase the number of foreign literary tex...

A collection of short stories by Renée Vivien (1877-1909). Reflects and challenges attitudes of the belle epoque, questions gender roles, and repre...

Offers techniques for teaching the works of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega in undergraduate classrooms, including considerations of mestizaje, transnati...

The author of Comentarios reales and La Florida del Inca, now recognized as key foundational works of Latin American literature and historiography,...

During her lifetime, Lydia Sigourney was acclaimed as nineteenth-century America's most popular woman poet and published widely as a historian, tra...

Recounting the murder of an elderly woman by a student expelled from university, Crime and Punishment is a psychological and political novel that p...

The Plum in the Golden Vase (also known as The Golden Lotus) was published in the early seventeenth century and may be the first long work of Chine...

Recounting the murder of an elderly woman by a student expelled from university, Crime and Punishment is a psychological and political novel that p...

The campus novel is one of the best loved forms of fiction in the post-war period. But what are its characteristic themes? What are its prejudices?...

Justin Martyrs Dialogue with Trypho is the oldest preserved literary dialogue between a Jew and a Christian and a key text for understanding the de...

Global and cosmopolitan since the late nineteenth century, anglophone South Asian women's writing has flourished in many genres and locations, enco...

As authors and publishers, individuals and collectives, women significantly shaped the modernist movement. While figures such as Virginia Woolf and...

During the antebellum period, British publishers increasingly brought out their own authorized and unauthorized editions of American literary works...

Jane Austen is a favorite with many students, whether they've read her novels or viewed popular film adaptations. But Persuasion (1817), completed ...

Known for his maxim make it new, Ezra Pound played a principal role in shaping the modernist movement as a poet, translator, and literary critic. Y...

The celebrated text on the history of the book, completely revised, updated and expanded  The revised and updated edition of The Companion to the H...

The legendary story of Beowulf comes to us in only one medieval manuscript with no illustrations. Modern comic book and graphic novel artists have ...

Ancient Obscenities inquires into the Greco-Roman handling of explicit representations of the body in its excretory and sexual functions, taking as...

A study of how literary strategies illuminate the evangelical underpinnings of Southern culture. In Southern Strategies: Narrative Negotiation in a...

Information science was a burgeoning field in the early years of the Cold War, and while public and academic libraries acted as significant sites f...

Two rollicking Roman satires.The Satyrica (Satyricon liber), a comic-picaresque fiction in prose and verse traditionally attributed to the Neronian...

Featuring essays by scholars from around the globe, Kate Chopin in Context revitalizes discussions on the famed 19th-century author of The Awakenin...

Jane Austen is a favorite with many students, whether they've read her novels or viewed popular film adaptations. But Persuasion (1817), completed ...

In the decades since his 1992 breakout novel, All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy has gained a reputation as one of the greatest contemporary Am...

In the decades since his 1992 breakout novel, All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy has gained a reputation as one of the greatest contemporary Am...