Literary Studies: General

This Festschrift for Wolfgang Mieder, preeminent paremiologist and folklorist, combines personal tributes and scholarly papers by colleagues, frien...

This book begins in a narrow territory, strictly Western, and extends with the passage of time to include the poetry, plays, novels, and works of s...

The Catholic University of America Press is pleased to continue to present new volumes in our Catholic Women Writers series, which will shed new li...

What happens when the intellectual giant of twentieth-century literature, James Joyce, is made an object of consideration and cause of desire by th...

The triumphal march of the automobile and its connection with American culture have often been acknowledged in scholarship. By contrast, the cultur...

A pleasurable look at the comic imagination of Lake Wobegon's favorite son and contemporary America's favorite humorist.

Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoi...

Edward Albee has reigned over the American theater since 1959. By transporting the techniques of European absurdism to American soil, he ushered in...

In the United States, Ishmael Reed, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ralph Ellison, N. Scott Momaday, Toni Morrison, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hon...

This collection of Raymond Carver's interviews reveals him to have been perhaps the premier short-story writer of his generation, a lyric-narrative...

African American writers explore the enduring effects of slavery on American society Slavery is America's family secret, says Ashraf Rushdy, a part...

"Despite the negative criticism directed at its sentiment, its heartlessness, its superficiality, the picturesque remained in both art and fiction ...

The Art of Transition addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the postdictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in whic...

Of interest in their own terms as a significant cultural practice, reading groups also provide a window on the everyday interpretation of literary ...

Here is the inimitable Henry Miller (1891-1980) speaking candidly about himself and his robust fiction--Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, The ...

Envisioning today’s readers as poised between an impossible attempt to read texts as their original readers experienced them and an awareness of ou...

In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite consciously sou...

First published in 1971. The book examines the presentation of the urban and industrial working classes in Victorian fiction. It considers the diff...

Charles Simic, recently named Poet Laureate of the United States, is one of America's most popular---and enigmatic---contemporary poets. Set apart ...

Ways of Reading is a best-selling textbook for undergraduate students of English Language and English Literature, providing readers with the tools ...

This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint ...

Guillaume de Machaut, a pioneer of a new school of lyric compositions, is the most important poet and composer of late medieval France. This volume...

This volume investigates the impact the first and third Earls of Shaftesbury had on Enlightenment thought. The focus is on both their tangible acti...

Scholars have argued for decades over which constitutes the best possible version of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s frequently anthologized story “The ...

Conversations with Nadine Gordimer edited by Nancy Topping Bazin and Marilyn Dallman Seymour Nadine Gordimer is one of the contemporary world's mos...

In novel after award-winning novel, Don DeLillo (b. 1936) exhibits his deep distrust of language and the way it can conceal as much as it reveals. ...

Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became i...

Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades studies the two periods in which Americans were actively encouraged to exca...

Racial Attitudes in English-Canadian Fiction is a critical overview of the appearances and consequences of racism in English-Canadian fiction publi...

The Drama of the Portrait examines the motif of portraiture in Spanish Golden Age theater, drawing from a wide range of drama and imagery to enrich...

Transforming academic and popular understanding of this pivotal but, until now, largely under-researched literary figure, this volume offers the fi...

For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life-in conversation and correspondence, scrapbook albums, and parlor entertai...

First published in 1909, in an era of receding interest in Classical authors, this volume aimed to encourage a renewed interest in the Classics thr...

     "Plant's study is sorely         needed at this point in the evolving critical assessment of Hurston. It         is a paradigm for the study o...

Mistress & Maid, one of the greatest tragedies of Chinese drama, is here available for the first time in English. Acclaimed translator Cyril Bi...

Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society examines the transcultural patterns that have been enriching Irish literature...

The first full-length book devoted to Japan's 1994 Nobel Laureate, The Marginal World of Kenzaburo Ôe introduces the literary universe bursting wit...

This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and in literary representations in post-war Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources in ...

This volume places Dickens at the centre of a dynamic and expanding Victorian print world and tells the story of his career against a background of...