Literary Studies: General

The Pain of Reformation argues that Edmund Spensers 1590 Faerie Queene represents an extended meditation on emerging notions of physical, social, a...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Marie Borroffs acclaimed verse translation, marginal glosses and explanatory footnotes. Laura L. Howess ful...

The Utopia Reader compiles primary texts from a variety of authors and movements in the history of theorizing utopias. Utopianism is defined as the...

How gender shapes cultural production in Viet Nam and its diaspora.

This book offers a pioneering study of Asian cultures that officially escaped from French colonisation but nonetheless were steeped in French civil...

As a young artist and musician Wesley Wehr became a friend and often a confidant of many of the painters, poets, and musicians who lived or worked ...

In Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture Judith Ruderman takes on the fraught question of who passes for Jewish in American lit...

This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Eu...

Is time gendered? This international, interdisciplinary anthology studies the early modern era to analyse how material objects express, shape, comp...

The Game of the Goose is one of the oldest printed board games, dating back 400 years. It has spawned thousands of derivatives: simple race games, ...

Tradition, translation, and transcription in Henrician verse functioned together in systems of communally created, coded position-taking. Understan...

This book argues that pre-modern societies were characterized by a common quest for human flourishing or excellence, i.e. virtue. The history of vi...

The diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum (19141943) have a special place among the Jewish-Dutch testimonies of the Shoah, so much so that Etty Hill...

Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft is an exploration of witchcraft in the literature of Britain and America from the 16th and 17th centuries thro...

Based on transnational France-Asia approaches, this book studies Asian cultures once steeped in French civilisation but free of a colonial mode in ...

Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England explores one of societys darkest crimes using archival sources and discussing its representation in the dra...

What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What ha...

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

A sweeping analysis of the lasting effects of neocolonial extractivism in Latin American aesthetic modernity from 1920 to the present Looking to th...

How do communities tell and retell stories of catastrophe to explain their own origins, imagine their future, and work for their survival? This boo...

Although Richard Rolle, hermit of Hampole, was perhaps the most influential spiritual author of the later English Middle Ages, the coming of print ...

In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britains most lionized living novelists. Like many popular writers of the period, Besant suffered ...

The emergence of a theatrical science of man in France, 1660-1740 highlights a radical departure from discussions of dramatic literature and its un...

This book aims to put Walter de la Mare back on the literary map. A writer beloved by many, he has nevertheless remained on the sidelines of litera...