Literary Studies: General

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...

First published in 1653, The Compleat Angler is one of the most influential environmental texts ever written. Addressing a politically and religiou...

For the modern world Greek tragedy is represented almost entirely by those plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides whose texts have been preser...

For the modern world Greek tragedy is represented almost entirely by those plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides whose texts have been preser...

Chicano/a fiction is often understood as a literature of resistance to the dominant U.S. Anglo culture and society. But reducing this rich literar...

Giants are a ubiquitous feature of medieval romance. As remnants of a British prehistory prior to the civilization established, according to the Hi...

A new story about the relationships between major twentieth-century English-language poets. Why did poets from the United States, Britain, and Ire...

A fascinating analysis of anonymous publication centuries before the digital ageEverywhere and Nowhere considers the ubiquity of anonymity and medi...

Charlotte Riddells The Uninhabited House (1875) tells the story of River Hall and the secrets that are hidden behind its doors. Within this haunted...

L'Etranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus is one of the most read twentieth-century novels and is studied around the world. This workbook provides ...

After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic sp...

A retelling of U.S., Latin American, and Latino/a literary history through writing by Latinos/as who lived in the United States during the long nin...

The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the a...

William Goyen was a writer of startling originality and deep artistic commitment whose work attracted an international audience and the praise of s...

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

Includes Old French text and English translation of the life of Saint Eufrosine, who dressed as a man to become a monk in a monastery. Mixing hagio...

Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England...

An English translation of the German-Language novel by Johanna Spyri (1827-1901). The coming-of-age story of a Swiss girl who leaves her village to...

Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry explores how American poets of the last hundred years have used laughter to crea...

This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialize...

On Sacred Ground explores the literature of the Northwest, the area that extends from the Pacific Ocean to the Rocky Mountains, and from the forty-...

This is the second volume of a collection which includes all the significant remains of tragedies produced by the contemporaries and successors of ...

As publishers in private printing presses, as writers of dissident texts and as political campaigners against censorship and for intellectual freed...