Literary Studies: General

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

This book examines the concept of 'nonsense' in ancient Greek thought and uses it to explore the comedies of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. If...

Book History has emerged as one of the most exciting new interdisciplinary fields of study in the humanities. By focusing on the production, circul...

Through a series of interdisciplinary studies this book argues that the Athenians themselves invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy just a few ...

Steven Connor, one of the most influential critics of twentieth-century literature and culture, has spent much of his career writing and thinking a...

Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the West, Malaysia is...

Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the West, Malaysia is...

Unlike other Victorian novelists George Eliot rarely incorporated stock market speculation and fraud into her plots, but meditations on money, fina...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work. This Companion brings together leading scholars in the fi...

David B. Goldstein argues for a new understanding of Renaissance England from the perspective of communal eating. Rather than focus on traditional ...

Eva Griffith's book fills a major gap concerning the world of Shakespearean drama. It tells the previously untold story of the Servants of Queen An...

Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which sc...

The environment concept has shaped humanity's relationship to the natural world and has drawn attention to the effects of human actions on our natu...

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece Thesmophoriazusae has long been recognized amongst the plays of Old Comedy for its deconstruction of tragic theatri...

This book explores the ways in which the two leading sensation authors of the 1860s, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, engaged with ninete...

This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Childrens Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to chil...

Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Co...

J.R.R. Tolkien is an author beloved by many, but people forget the hostile reception of his work from several literary critics, who despised (a...

This book reconsiders the place of magic at the foundations of modernity. Through careful close reading of plays, spell books, philosophical treati...

The topic of force has long remained a problem of interpretation for readers of Homer's Iliad, ever since Simone Weil famously proclaimed it as the...