Literary Studies: General

In Gone Girls, 1684-1901, Nora Gilbert argues that the persistent trope of female characters running away from some iteration of 'home' played a fa...

This book explores Henry James's imaginative engagements with the burgeoning consumer culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,...

What do forgeries do? Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome explores that question with a focus on forgery in ...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offere...

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...

Ranging from David Garrick's Macbeth in the 1740s to the World Shakespeare Festival in London 2012, this is the first book to provide in-depth anal...

Joseph Conrad and Material Culture offers a fresh approach to Conrads work, especially his African fictions, by grounding its discussion in the imp...

Race and Repast: Foodscapes in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature examines the literary foodscapes of the American Southfrom Jim Crowera kitchen...

Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of printed b...

During a modern age that saw the expansion of its democracy, the fading of its empire, and two world wars, Britain's hereditary aristocracy was pus...

This book examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in antebellum literature. This stereotyped character appears p...

This volume focuses on the famous philosophical correspondence between the German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, writing in the final months o...

Adam Rounce presents a colourful and unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame through writers who failed t...

Tracing the path from Troy's destruction to Rome's foundation, the Aeneid explores the transition between past and future. As the Trojans struggle ...

In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The imm...

Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating...