Literary Studies: General

Autobiography is one of the most dynamic and quickly-growing genres in contemporary comics and graphic narratives. In Serial Selves, Frederik Byrn ...

This collection of original new essays focuses on the many ways in which early modern Spanish plays engaged their audiences in a dialogue about abu...

Transatlantic studies have begun to explore the lasting influence of Spain on its former colonies and the surviving ties between the American natio...

Theory, as its happened across the humanities, has often been coded as Jewish. This collection of essays seeks to move past explanations for this u...

Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine Hong Kingston, this book argue...

Illuminating the religious and existential themes in Stephen Kings horror stories Who are we? Why are we here? Where do we go when we die? For an...

In the long nineteenth century, the specter of lost manuscripts loomed in the imagination of antiquarians, historians, and writers. Whether by war,...

Dragonflies is an anthology containing twelve selections ranging from short stories to novellas, and spans the century from the May Fourth Movement...

Few places have shaped as many sensibilities as the exotic, mythical city of Alexandria. Jane Lagoudis Pinchin's gracefully written book describes ...

How can the concept of nostalgia illuminate the culturally specific ways in which societies understand the contested relationship between the past,...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's first novel, Netochka Nezvanova, written in 1849, remains the least studied and understood of the writer's long fiction, but it...

During the middle years of Queen Elizabeths reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or fore...

In laying the groundwork for a fresh and challenging reading of Roman satire, Kirk Freudenburg explores the literary precedents behind the situatio...

2020 George Freedley Memorial Award Special Jury Prize from the Theatre Library Association 2021 PROSE Awards Finalist, Music & the Performing ...

The Italian romance epic of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with its multitude of characters, complex plots, and roots in medieval Carolingi...

A most thorough study of the Elizabethan Tragedy of Revenge, its origins, development, the ethical influence affecting it and the inter-relations o...

Alice, and her adventures in Wonderland, have become British literary canon. But how did she come to be? Wonderland was invented by Lewis Carroll, ...

What shall we make of medieval English lyrics? They have no fixed line or meter, no consistent point of view, and their content may seem misaligned...

A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasnt absent frombut rather was at the heart ofRoman religionB...

Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life gives us a new way to view contemporary art novels, asking the key ...

In the beginning there was . . . the beginning. And with the beginning came the power to tell a story. Few book-length studies of narrative beginni...

The study of Homeric imitations in Vergil has one of the longest traditions in Western culture, starting from the very moment the Aeneid was circul...

This definitive biography gives a brilliant account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919-1988), one of America's great postwar poets. Lisa Ja...

Bringing together the work of both leading and emerging scholars in the field of medieval gender studies, the essays in Rivalrous Masculinities adv...