Literary Studies: General

Sex, blood, and gender have diverse associations in the Malorian tradition, yet their inter-relatedness and intersections are comparatively underst...

Essays offering a gendered approach to the study of the move from manuscript to early printed book show how much women were involved in the process...

A reconstruction of the life and works of a sixteenth-century minstrel, showing the tradition to be flourishing well into the Tudor period. Richar...

Essays examining the genre of medieval romance in its cultural Christian context, bringing out its chameleon-like character. The relationship betw...

The writings of two influential Elizabethan thinkers testify to the influence of Old English law and literature on Tudor society and self-image. F...

Important and wide-ranging studies of the ideological exploitations performed by and upon the medieval romance. As one of the most important, inf...

This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the life and work of a major figure of the modern world. Combining breadth of coverage with d...

With the first publication, in this edition, of all the surviving letters of Ernest Hemingway (18991961), readers will for the first time be able t...

Within the Tides (1915) was the last volume of short stories published during Conrad's lifetime. In this book, the stories are published for the fi...

In this book, Eric Falci reshapes the story of Irish poetry since the 1960s. He shows how polemical arguments concerning the role of poetry in 1960...

South Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural ...

Claire Connolly offers a cultural history of the Irish novel in the period between the radical decade of the 1790s and the gaining of Catholic Eman...

The recently developed field of transatlantic literary studies has encouraged scholars to move beyond national literatures towards an examination o...

Recent criticism has often overlooked William Blake's relationship to the bourgeois culture of sentimentalism, focusing instead on his association ...

Troubled politically and personally, Wordsworth and Coleridge turned in 1797 to the London stage. Their tragedies, The Borderers and Osorio, were s...

This book examines the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes through one aspect of its relationship with other texts. The particular intertextual rel...

This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up ...

This book explores the ways in which Aristotle's legacy was appropriated and reshaped by vernacular readers in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. It c...

The search for immediacy, the desire to feel directly connected to people or events, has been a driving force in American literature and media cult...

Nineteenth-Century American Women's Serial Novels explores the prolific careers of four exemplary novelists - E. D. E. N. Southworth, Ann Stephens,...

Since the establishment of the Northern Irish state in 1921, theatre has often captured and reflected the political, social, and cultural changes t...