Literary Studies: General

Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics and cultural historians. The jou...

Ajouri zeichnet die Verflechtung von juristischen Diskussionen und literarischen Werken nach, belegt, dass Autoren mit ihren Werken die Diskurse üb...

A thorough and scholarly study of Spenser and Shakespeare and their contrary artistry, covering themes of theology, psychology, the depictions of p...

During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature. This book takes that cl...

Die Theorie des wilden Übersetzens, die dieses Buch entwickelt, beschreibt Verfahren des Übersetzens, die als generativer Mechanismus zur Produktio...

The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in size and variety. In this study, an...

Gothic death 1740-1914 explores the representations of death and dying in Gothic narratives published between the mid-eighteenth century and the be...

Bei der Erforschung der römischen Eliten stand bislang ihr ebenso intensives wie alternativloses Engagement in Politik und Militär im Mittelpunkt. ...

Insel, Höhle und Wald sind im 12. Jahrhundert Schauplätze ganz besonderer Jenseitserzählungen. Die Protagonisten betreten auf körperliche, nicht-vi...

Titelblätter der frühen Neuzeit unterscheiden sich hinsichtlich Umfang, Layout, Informationsgehalt und sprachlicher Gestaltung deutlich von den heu...

Petrons Satyrica, einer der maßgeblichen fiktiven Texte der antiken Literatur, stehen seit den sechziger Jahren im Brennpunkt der internationalen F...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Counter-Cartographies draws from a body of Anglophone and mu...

«In Post-2000 Poetry of Dissent, Dr Abha Prakashs student-focussed explication of poems proceeds comparatively, identifying ways in which pairs of ...

Written by one of the editors of the new complete works of Henry Vaughan, Keeping the Ancient Way is the first book-length study of the poet by a s...

SHAKESPEARE: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon? 'Powerful and illuminating' James Shapiro, author of 1599: A...

The concept of the afterlife has always been prominent in both Greek literature and modern scholarship alike. The fate of man after his/her allotte...

From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannin...

How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one anot...

From her youth, Mary Shelley immersed herself in the social contract tradition, particularly the educational and political theories of John Locke a...

What is turmoil? How may it be captured? What were its manifestations in the eighteenth century? Why does it feel so familiar, even urgent, nowaday...