Literary Studies: General

Less than twenty years after asserting global dominance in the Seven Years' War, Britain suffered a devastating defeat when it lost the American co...

As a literary mode lyric is difficult to define precisely. While the term has conventionally been applied to brief, songlike poems expressing the s...

When Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score....

Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel (ssu ta ch'i-shu). Arguing that these ...

The work of J.R.R. Tolkien has had a profound effect on contemporary fiction and film making, yet criticism often places him at the margins of twen...

Quintus Ennius, often considered the father of Roman poetry, is best remembered for his epic poem, the Annals, a history of Rome from Aeneas until ...

John Keats was a trained surgeon who studied at Guys Hospital, London while simultaneously making his way as a poet. This book focuses attention o...

In the twelfth century, a French poet wrote a verse romance about a young knight who witnesses a mysterious procession centered on a radiant vessel...

Eighteenth-century British literary history was long characterized by two central and seemingly discrete movements-the emergence of the novel and t...

Barton Freidman demonstrates that, as a cycle, the Cuchulain plays form a paradigm of Yeats's dramatic career. They trace his progress, the author ...

Especially evident in Victorian-era writings is a rhetorical tendency to liken adults to children and children to adults. Claudia Nelson examines t...

With their stirring depictions of a proud people striving for fulfillment in a land of natural beauty and economic hardship, West Virginia authors ...

Benjamin Franklin wrote his posthumously published memoir - a model of the genre - in several pieces and in different temporal and physical places....

In the company of wolves presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project. It connects together innovative research from a variet...

In diesem interdisziplinären Sammelband wird nicht nur eine Motivgeschichte des Themas Wasser vorgelegt. Vielmehr eint die Beiträge der Ansatz, Was...

Why read, Wordsworth's poetry - indeed, why read poetry at all? Beyond any pleasure it might give, can it make one a better or more flourishing per...

The migration of American artists and intellectuals to Europe in the early twentieth century has been amply documented and studied, but few scholar...

What happens when historiographythe way historical events are committed to writingshapes historical events as they occur? How do we read biography ...

For many critics, Romanticism is synonymous with nature writing, for representations of the natural world appear during this period with a freshnes...

Often identified with its lyric poetry, Romanticism has come to be dismissed by historicists as an ineffectual idealism. By focusing on Romantic na...

Renowned as one of the most brilliant satirists ever, Jonathan Swift has long fascinated Hibernophiles beyond the shores of the Emerald Isle. Sean ...

In Romantic Interactions, Susan J. Wolfson examines how interaction with other authors-whether on the bookshelf, in the embodied company of someon...