Literary Studies: General

An examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval romance. In both medieval and modern contexts, women who do not desire men invite...

This is the thirteenth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourt...

A timely and original examination of lesbian modernism Reflects critically upon 30 years of lesbian modernist studies to expand existing meanings ...

Contemporary African American writing negotiates the twinned crises of anthropogenic climate change and anti-Black violence by thinking in new ways...

The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances brings together sixteen of the most prominent scholars who have written on Seamus Heaney to examine the Nobel Pr...

A groundbreaking study of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic worldal-Nuwayris The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition...

Literary and cultural historians typically cite Thomas More's 1516 Utopia as the source of both a genre and a concept. Karma Lochrie rejects this o...

Presents authoritative analyses of the religious terrain of the modernist period Presents authoritative scholarly analyses of the religious terrai...

This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-know...

This study provides an engaging overview and clear analysis of the fiction, non-fiction and drama of African-American writer James Baldwin (1924-19...

In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the s...

In Steinbeck's Imaginarium, Robert DeMott delves into the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck's writing. DeMot...

The study of French science fiction even in France remains an underexploited field. Only recently have French literary scholars been able to gain...

Singing the Law is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear within the pages of written li...

According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual. Empty Houses challenges ...

Provides a uniquely detailed and accessible insight into the terminology and culture of the Victorian period Surveys not merely the reign of Queen...

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin d...

This book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy. In the evolution of Western gender roles, th...

Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten ac...

Das vorliegende Buch stellt die erste kritische Edition des Kommentars zu einer frühbyzantinischen Kanonessammlung, der Synopsis canonum, dar. Der ...

Walt Whitman has served as a crucial figure within the tradition of Jewish American poetry. But how did Whitman, a non-Jewish, American-born poet, ...

Examines the discourses around the role of bloodlines and kinship in the social hierarchies of early modern Europe Blood is thicker than water, goe...