Literary Studies: General

The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan is the most extensive volume of original essays ever published on the seventeenth-century Nonconformist preacher...

Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Traverses the history of imagined futures from the 18...

Periodizing contemporary fiction against the backdrop of neoliberalism, After Critique identifies a notable turn away from progressive politics amo...

While the field of childhood studies has blossomed in recent years, few scholars have taken up the question of age more broadly as a lens for readi...

The most influential of Augustine's works, City of God played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. Augustine wrote City of G...

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked betw...

In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. ...

Offering readings of a range of fictional and biographical texts, including work by Richard Selzer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Willa Cathe...

Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text designed for readerly consumption. Arguing that plays we...

This volume argues for an innovative interdisciplinary approach to the analysis and translation of literary style, based on a mutually supportive c...

Writers of the English Renaissance, like their European contemporaries, frequently reflect on the phenomenon of exilean experience that forces the ...

In the colonial context of South Asia, there is a glaring asymmetry in the written records of the interaction between the Bengali women and their E...

Broadening the notion of censorship, this volume explores the transformative role played by early modern censors in the fashioning of a distinct En...

Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter brings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African American history from slavery...

Collage and Literature analyzes how and why the history of literature and art changed irrevocably beginning in the early years of the twentieth cen...

Serialization is an old narrative strategy and a form of publication that can be traced far back in literary history, yet serial narratives are as ...

Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11 explores the representation of terrorism in plays, novels, and films across t...

Literary Interventions in the Campaign Biography considers campaign biographies written by major authors including Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dea...

Thought and Knowledge applies theory and research from the learning sciences to teach students the critical thinking skills that they need to succe...

This work is a comprehensive study of Han Yu (768-824), a principal figure in the history of the Chinese Confucian tradition. Originally published...