Literary Studies: General

Barcelona, City of Margins studies the creation of a space of dissent in the 1950s and 1960s that became the pillar of the protest movements during...

The Middle English romance of Richard Coeur de Lion transforms the historical Richard I of Englanda Frenchman by upbringing, who spent only four mo...

Using both textual and iconographic sources, this richly illustrated book examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and Middle Comedy, ...

In the 1920s, with the end of the revolution, the Soviet government began investing resources and energy into creating a new type of book for the f...

Although a large body of work has emerged which addresses neoliberal representations of the family in other cultural forms (such as parenting advic...

Disorienting Empire is the first book to examine Republican Latin poetry's recurring interest in characters who become lost. Basil Dufallo explains...

Metaphors of Invention and Dissension explores the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel, examining six n...

The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature & History After Empire undertakes a detailed analysis of the use of medicine as a recurrent and def...

English bibles, from Tyndale's 1525 New Testament to the 1611 King James, feature calendars, woodcuts, maps, chronologies, prayers, philological gl...

The concept of community is one of the most frequently used and abused of recent philosophical or socio-political concepts. In the 1980s, faced wit...

This is the first book exclusively devoted to the Civil War writings of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, arguably the most important poets of the ...

Poetry & Strikes examines shifting representations of strike action in the work of six British poets from the 1970s to the present day. It cons...

This study of Dryden's poetic career addresses the nature of covert argument in an age of violently contested political and religious issues. Orig...

The subjects Wolf addressed have dominated Homeric scholarship for almost two centuries. Especially important were his analyses of the history of w...

Writers in contemporary Lebanon stand at the crossroads of challenging and often violent dynamics in a multi-ethnic postcolonial society, where com...

The Persica is an extensive history of Assyria and Persia written by the Greek historian Ctesias, who served as a doctor to the Persian king Artaxe...

By turns outlandish, humorous, and scatological, the Historia Augusta is an eccentric compilation of biographies of the Roman emperors and usurpers...

Abdelkébir Khatibi (19382009) is one of the greatest Moroccan thinkers, and one of the most important theorists of both postcolonialism and Islamic...

What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve bein...

This volume presents the first printed edition of a late sixteenth-century poetic miscellany and provides invaluable insight into understanding the...

In a fresh reading of Montaigne's Essais, David Quint portrays the great Renaissance writer as both a literary man and a deeply engaged political t...

The Difficult Art of Giving rethinks standard economic histories of the literary marketplace. Traditionally, American literary histories maintain t...

In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jac...