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...

In this book, Bonnie Lander Johnson explores early modern ideas of chastity, demonstrating how crucial early Stuart thinking on chastity was to pol...

In a moonlit graveyard somewhere in southern Italy, a soldier removes his clothes in readiness to transform himself into a wolf. He depends upon th...

A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Audens early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his shifting beli...

The turn of the seventeenth century was an important moment in the history of English criticism. In a series of pioneering works of rhetoric and po...

Reclaiming Assia Wevill: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Literary Imagination reconsiders cultural representations of Assia Wevill (1927- 1969), ...

The study follows the early evolution of the American frontier hero, from its roots in Mary Rowlandson's narration of her experiences as a prisoner...

The society in which Jane Austen lived and set her novels was a patriarchal one. Men ran the country nationally and locally, and had professional o...

Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race challenges the critical emphasis on otherness in treatments of race in literary and cul...

Conversations with Jonathan Lethem collects fourteen interviews, conducted over a decade and a half, with the Brooklyn-born author of such novels a...

Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations o...

For almost forty years, Jane Dolinger traveled the world and wrote about her adventures, from the Amazon jungle to the sands of the Sahara. She pro...

Violence against women in plays bywomen has earned little mention. This revolutionary collection fills that gap, focusing on plays by American wome...

Broadens the perspective of recent work on the discourse of the Muslim Other in medieval Christendom by investigating pertinent texts, art, and art...

This interdisciplinary anthology highlights exiled/alienated women in literature, history, and cinema. Contributors investigate when and how women ...

This volume features new essays by eminent and emerging Woolf scholars from around the world, focusing on Virginia Woolf's and Bloomsbury's politic...

This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse th...

Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is...

Exploration of the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives. The contr...

These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in...

At the end of the Middle Ages, a group of hatmakers from the Low Countries migrated across the North Sea to London. These men brought with them new...

Three of the most renowned praise poems to the Prophet, the mantle odes span the arc of Islamic history from Muhammad's lifetime, to the medieval M...

The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (19171979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. A member of the ...