Literary Studies: General

This volume argues that, given a Western propensity to identify Shakespeares work with the human, his drama plays a crucial and constitutive part...

In the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet ...

The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger's fam...

What are the perceived differences among African Americans, West Indians, and Afro Latin Americans? What are the hierarchies implicit in those perc...

Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.S. Naipaul, this book devel...

The Antinomies of Realism is a history of the nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achi...

Ranging from soldiers reading newspapers at the front to authors' responses to the war, this book sheds new light on the reading habits and prefere...

Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh riv...

Exploring how the figure of the wild child in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and the ...

Incorporating advances in historical linguistics but aimed at teachers and students of poetry, Chaucers Verse Art in its European Context argues th...

What kinds of pleasure do we take from writing and reading? What authority has the writer over a text? What are the limits of languages ability to ...

As both layman and Franciscan friar, the Catalan writer known as Francesc Moner (ca 14631495) is one of the leading exponents of the bilingual (Cat...

Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives introduces the work of twenty-nine pivotal authors from the Arab world writing in Arabic, English, Frenc...

Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' Association The life, birth, and early years of 'the ...

Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions is an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas...

Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions is an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas...

Essays on teaching love, ethics, and medieval allegory.One of the most influential texts of its time, the Romance of the Rose offers readers a wind...

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been ...

How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism...

Named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary cr...

Moses Almosnino (1518-1580), arguably the most famous Ottoman Sephardi writer and the only one who was known in Europe to both Jews and Christians,...

The Methuen Drama Student Edition of Twelve Angry Men is the first critical edition of Reginald Roses play, providing the play text alongside comme...

Horaces book of Sermones (also called Satires) was his first published work. Rather than a collection of satirical sideswipes, as the genre might h...