Literary Studies: General

This book explores the representation of Wales and Welshness in texts by French- (including Breton) and German-speaking travellers from 1780 to the...

The sacred and the secular in medieval literature have too often been perceived as opposites, or else relegated to separate but unequal spheres. In...

First penned in Egypt between the 2nd and 4th centuries, the Physiologus brought together poetic descriptions of animals and their Christian allego...

Hannibal's crossing of the Alps represents a momentous event in the beginning of the Second Punic War (218-202 BCE). The third book of Silius Itali...

Through a probing study of Flaubert's novels which brings out their nuances of tone, technique, vision, and meaning, Victor Brombert provides a clo...

This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of clonin...

There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet....

Many writing instructors teach writing through autobiography. By considering the lives of others and then contemplating their own lives, aspiring w...

In Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity, Janine Barchas makes the bold assertion that Jane Austen's novels allude to ac...

Just prior to his death in 2005, August Wilson, arguably the most important American playwright of the last quarter-century, completed an ambitious...

There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet....

Burying the Beloved traces the relationship between the law and literature in Iran to reveal the profound ambiguities at the heart of Iranian ideas...

In this path-breaking new work, Gregory Jusdanis asks why literature matters. Why are we afraid to admit our pleasures of reading, to defend the ar...

A Student Edition of Wedekind's classic 1891 expressionist play about adolescent sexuality. Wedekind's notorious play Spring Awakening influenced ...

Satire, the use of criticism cloaked in wit, has been employed since classical times to challenge the established order of society. In colonial Spa...

What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate fro...

Based on previously unexploited primary sources, this is the first comprehensive biography of Yosef Haim Brenner, one of the pioneers of Modern Heb...

It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poets words and the lawyers world really so far ap...

In Subjects of Advice, Ivan Lupi uncovers the rich interconnectedness of dramatic art and the culture of counsel in the early modern period. While ...

Pollution is ubiquitous in Greek tragedy: matricidal Orestes seeks purification at Apollo's shrine in Delphi; carrion from Polyneices' unburied cor...

Before the Scrolls traces the media history of the biblical prophetic corpus to propose a material approach to biblical literature. Although schola...

Thomas Love Peacock (17851866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas...

The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon cultur...

John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (16471680), the notorious and brilliant libertine poet of King Charles II's court, has long been considered a...