Literary Studies: General

Machiavelli in Love introduces a complex concept of sex and sexual identity and their roles in the culture and politics of the Italian Renaissance....

This book is about the ambition, in a set of paradigmatic writers of the twentieth century, to simultaneously enlist and break the spell of the rea...

Mary Shelleys 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate n...

The study of Boethiuss medieval reception has enjoyed a resurgence of interest in recent years, with the publication of new editions, translations,...

The Banshees traces the feminist contributions of a wide range of Irish American women writers, from Mother Jones, Kate Chopin, and Margaret Mitche...

Race has long been recognized as a formative element of American modernism, but its role in England is less clearly understood. While critics have ...

Laurence Sternes A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. Deemed mor...

During the Roman Republic, any unnatural event occurring in nature--from a talking cow to a hermaphrodite to an earthquake--was deemed a prodigium....

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature ...

What is a literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with each other? In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Beecroft develops...

This collection of essays explores some new possibilities for understanding postcolonial traumas. It examines representations of both personal and ...

Our Bodies, Ourselves, first published by a mainstream press in 1973, is now in its eighth major edition. It has been translated into twenty-nine l...

This book looks at the first generation of Arab British and Arab-American writers to produce English writings in the earlier twentieth-century: Ame...

Writing in the tradition of Ortega y Gasset's History as a System and Saussure's linguistic model, Claudio Guillen proposes a structural approach t...

As digital communication has become dominant, commentators have declared that handwriting is a thing of the past, a relic of an earlier age. This v...

Peter Hainsworth's sparkling, eminently readable new English translation of The Book of the Courtier, Baldesar Castiglione's (14781529) literary an...