Literary Studies: General
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Old Norse Folklore: Tradition, Innovation, and Performance in Medieval Scandinavia
Stephen A. MitchellCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99The medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod and culturall...
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Speculative Fictions: Explaining the Economy in the Early United States
Elizabeth HewittCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99Speculative Fictions places Alexander Hamilton at the center of American literary history to consider the important intersections between economics...
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Engaging Italy: American Women''s Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks
Etta M. MaddenCurrent price €77.39Original price €85.99Current price €77.39Original price €85.99Save 10% -
The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book Trilogy from Imperial China
Lu CaiCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...
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An Anthology of Poetry by Buddhist Nuns of Late Imperial China
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...
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Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France
Alistaire TallentCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up se...
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Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France
Alistaire TallentCurrent price €133.19Original price €147.99Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up se...
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God''s Own Mouthpieces: Prophecy and Reason in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Mohr SiebeckCurrent price €96.29Original price €106.99The thematical focus of this two-part volume, resulting from an international, interdisciplinary and interreligious conference at Frankfurts Goethe...
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Lesser and Anonymous Fragments of Greek Lyric Poetry: A Commentary
Oxford University PressCurrent price €138.59Original price €153.99An authoritative commentary on the surviving fragments of Greek lyric poetry up to the death of Aristotle. No comparable work exists, partly becaus...
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Cervantes and Ariosto: Renewing Fiction
Thomas R. HartCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99Thomas Hart examines Erich Auerbach's contention that Don Quixote is not a tragedy but a comedy and suggests that Auerbach's view was shaped by his...
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The Making of the Scottish Dream Vision
Kylie M. MurrayCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99This book is about how Scotland responded to the dream-vision, Medieval Europe's most widely known literary form and precursor of the novel. Studie...
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The German Bildungsroman from Wieland to Hesse
Martin SwalesCurrent price €77.39Original price €85.99Although some of the most distinguished German novels written since about 1770 are generally considered to be Bildungsromane, the term Bildungsroma...
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Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
Paula ByrneCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER 'He understands only ...
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Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
Paula ByrneCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER 'He understands only ...
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Cervantes'' Christian Romance: A Study of Persiles y Sigismunda
Alban K. ForcioneCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Alban Forcione analyzes the problem which has most troubled modern readers of the Persiles, its episodic character and confusing proliferation of a...
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Hofmannsthal: Three Essays
Michael HamburgerCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Contents: Poems and Verse Plays; Plays and Libretti; Hofmannsthal's Debt to the English-speaking World Originally published in 1973. The Princeto...
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Kazantzakis and Linguistic Revolution in Greek Literature
Peter BienCurrent price €47.69Original price €52.99Peter Bien focuses on Kazantzakis' obsession with the demotic, the language on the lips of the people, showing how it governed his writing, his amb...
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The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 10: On the Constitution of the Church and State
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeCurrent price €57.59Original price €63.99Based on a comparison of early editions, manuscripts, and copies annotated by the poet himself, this edition provides a reliable text of Coleridge'...
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American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon
Elizabeth DuquetteCurrent price €82.79Original price €91.99What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces so...
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Private Lives Made Public: The Invention of Biography in Early Modern England
Andrea WalkdenCurrent price €71.99Original price €79.99Current price €71.99Original price €79.99Save 10% -
For Humanism: Explorations in Theory and Politics
Pluto PressCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99Today, anti-humanism is a dominant, even definitive, feature of contemporary theory. Setting out to challenge this tendency, editors David Alderson...
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Art''s Undoing: In the Wake of a Radical Aestheticism
Forest PyleCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99Radical aestheticism describes a recurring event in some of the most powerful and resonating texts of nineteenth-century British literature, offeri...
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Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume IV: Oratory, Part 2
Harvard University PressCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Rhetorical remnants.The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with oratory, an important element of Roman life from...
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A Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham
Bucknell University PressU.S.Current price €43.19Original price €47.99Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as a most unclubbable man. Conversely, this ...
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