Literary Studies: General

This book explores the different ways women have been liberating themselves from the shackles of patriarchy and cultural laws that inhibit their in...

Was the experience of poetry--or a cultural practice we now call poetry--continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the compos...

It is often assumed that the female characters found in popular folk and fairy tales are little more than inconsequential stereotypes--mostly servi...

Charles Dickens is famous for his deathbed scenes, but these have rarely been examined within the context of his ambivalence towards the Victorian ...

Henrik Ibsen's plays came at a pivotal moment in late nineteenth-century European modernity. They engaged his public through a strategic use of met...

This volume explores the political implications of the first five books of Livy's celebrated history of Rome, challenging the common perception of ...

Using Euripides' play Helen as the main point of reference, C. W. Marshall's detailed study expands our understanding of Athenian tragedy and provi...

Through close readings of major poems, this book examines why the second-generation Romantic poets - Byron, Shelley, and Keats - stage so much of t...

Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction examines the ways contemporary American fiction develops digital cultures through t...

The two books of Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists have not received much attention in their own right, as sustained and methodical specimen...

This book argues that New Comedy has a far richer performance texture than has previously been recognised. Offering close readings of all the major...

This volume provides the first transnational overview of the relationship between translation and the book trade in early modern Europe. Following ...

This book offers a new description of the significance of Hesiod's 'myth of the races' for ancient Greek and Roman authors, showing how the most de...

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, new ways of storytelling and inventing fictions appeared in the French-speaking areas of Europe. This new ...

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both refle...

Jonathan Swift's angers were all too real, though Swift was temperamentally equivocal about their display. Even in his most brilliant satire, A Tal...

To what extent can imaginative events be situated in time and history? From the medieval to the early modern period, this question is intriguingly ...

This collection of essays offers the first comprehensive treatment of British and American films adapted from modern British plays. Offering insigh...

Kate McLoughlin's Authoring War is an ambitious and pioneering study of war writing across all literary genres from earliest times to the present d...

Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson charts the nineteent...

Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson charts the nineteent...