Literary Studies: General

With Faithful Translators Jaime Goodrich offers the first in-depth examination of womens devotional translations and of religious translations in g...

Telling Images investigates certain symbolic traditions in Geoffrey Chaucer's major poetry and their relationship to the visual culture of his time...

Disknowledge: knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance E...

Mike Ashley's acclaimed history of science-fiction magazines comes to the 1980s with Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magaz...

The period from the 1850s to the 1890s in Paris marked a key turning point for poets and composers, as they grappled with the new ways in which poe...

What role has Jewish intellectual culture played in the development of modern Romance literature? Susanne Zepp seeks to answer this question throug...

Today, in the era of the spoiler alert, surprise in fiction is primarily associated with an unexpected plot twist, but in earlier usage, the word h...

Jewish identity and magical realism are the themes of the tales of adventure and cultural alienation collected here by the leading authority on Jew...

Johnson After Three Centuries: New Light on Texts and Contexts examines several aspects of Johnson's career through fresh perspectives and original...

Metaphorical Circuit argues that the division of knowledge between literature and science in the modern university produced a necessity to choose t...

In African American fiction, Richard Wright was one of the most significant and influential authors of the twentieth century. Richard Wright in a P...

In the years from 1534, when Henry VIII became head of the English church until the end of Mary Tudor's reign in 1558, the forms of English religio...

Until the late twentieth century, relatively few Americans knew that the United States government forcibly detained nearly 120,000 Japanese America...

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

A literary history of Arthur Conan Doyle's work with the Strand Magazine in the twentieth centuryYou know Arthur Conan Doyle as the stereotypically...

Graphic novels (kurimchaek) are a major art form in North Korea, produced by agents of the regime to set out its vision in a range of important are...

Dickens' rise to fame and his world-wide popularity were by no means inevitable. He started out with no clear career in mind, drifting in and out o...

Who are the Black heroines of Latin America and the Caribbean? Where do we turn for models of transcendence among women of African ancestry in the ...

Like many societies across the world, the region of Awadh in North India has been bilingual throughout its history. But literary histories of the r...

Los Angeles is a city of borders and lines, from the freeways that transect its neighborhoods to streets like Pico Boulevard that slash across the ...

Oedipus Tyrannus by the great tragedian Sophocles is one of the most famous works of ancient Greek literature. The play has always been admired for...