Literary Studies: General

In Inscrutable Malice, Jonathan A. Cook expertly illuminates Melville's abiding preoccupation with the problem of evil and the dominant role of the...

Drawing on the context in which the symbolic protection of the white female body is symbolically linked with guarding the U.S. southern body politi...

Three foundational Roman poets.The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with three highly influential pioneers in t...

Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carsons remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of roma...

Explaining the science behind science fiction and fantasyfrom the probable to the impossibleFrom space elevators to interstellar travel, science fi...

Building on the strength of Keith Walkers acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a ...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future ...

Although the influence of Homer on Western literature has long commanded critical attention, little has been written on how various generations of ...

The Story of the Stone (or Dream of the Red Chamber), a Chinese novel by Cao Xueqin and continued by Gao E, tells of an amazing garden, of a young ...

A state of the art critical review of research into literature in language education, of interest to teachers of English and modern foreign languag...

Thirty years ago Robert Kaster's Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity investigated ancient Greco-Roman grammarians a...

This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, includ...

Detectives, police informers, spies and spymasters, anarchists and terrorists, swindlers: these are the character types explored in Conrad's Popula...

Exploring literary fascination as a key concept of aesthetic attraction, this book illuminates the ways in which literary texts are designed, prese...

Two languagesGerman and Romanianinform the novels, essays, and collage poetry of Nobel laureate Herta Müller. Describing her writing as autofiction...

This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have give...

Using pedagogy as a lens through which to explore issues of gender, social class, power and hegemony, Cohen's study makes a major new contribution ...

A groundbreaking biography of Miltons formative years that provides a new account of the poets political radicalizationJohn Milton (16081674) has a...

New England's Puritans were devoted to self-scrutiny. Consumed by the pursuit of pure hearts, they latched on to sincerity as both an ideal and a s...

Giovanni Boccaccio played a pivotal role in the extraordinary emergence of the Italian literary tradition in the fourteenth century, not only as au...

This book reconceives the rewriting of Byzantine hagiography between the eighth and fourteenth centuries as a skilful initiative in communication a...