Literary Studies: General

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continu...

The corpus of Palaiologan romances consists of about a dozen works of imaginative fiction from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries which narr...

The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts explores Dickens's rich and complex relationships with a myriad of art forms and the far-re...

Poetry written in English is uniquely powerful and suggestive in its capacity to surprise, unsettle, shock, console, and move. The Cambridge Histor...

Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a work of huge cultural and literary significance. The volume of poetry, in which Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Mariner...

Literary authors, especially those with other occupations, must come to grips with the question of why they should write at all, when the world urg...

This volume provides a new critical text of the Prologue and the first two books of Venantius Fortunatus' Vita Sancti Martini, a work, written in t...

Livy's Ab urbe condita Book XXII narrates Hannibal's massive defeats of the Romans at Trasimene (217 BC) and Cannae (216 BC). It is Livy's best and...

This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, ...

What does it mean to write in and about sound? How can literature, seemingly a silent, visual medium, be sound-bearing? This volume considers these...

Livy's Ab urbe condita Book XXII narrates Hannibal's massive defeats of the Romans at Trasimene (217 BC) and Cannae (216 BC). It is Livy's best and...

The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing provides a comprehensive historical overview of the diverse literary traditions impacting ...

New Orleans is an indispensable element of America's national identity. As one of the most fabled cities in the world, it figures in countless nove...

This book considers how 'affect', the experience of feeling or emotion, has developed as a critical concept within literary studies in different pe...

Samuel Richardson (16891761), among the most important and influential English novelists, was also a prolific letter writer. Beyond its extraordina...

Samuel Richardson (16891761), renowned master printer and celebrated English novelist, wrote hundreds of letters during his lifetime. The Cambridge...

Jorge Luis Borges (18991986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which h...

This book evaluates twentieth century British and Global Anglophone literature in relation to the growth of ecological thinking in the United Kingd...

This fourth and final volume, which completes the Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, covers the final twenty-four years of what wa...

This third volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett focuses on the years when Beckett is striving to find a balance between the demands put upon him...

From 1815 to 1823 the Italian influence on English literature was at its zenith. While English tourists flocked to Italy, a pervasive Italianism co...

Katherine Mansfield had a career-long engagement with the literary marketplace from the age of eighteen. This book examines how she developed as a ...