Literary Studies: General

The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel analyses the representation of the doctor-patient relationship in the ninet...

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ist neben Schiller und Goethe der meistgelesene und -unterrichtete deutsche Dichter des 18. Jahrhunderts. Sein Werk, das v...

The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire era, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale of illicit desire, grand...

What are the sourcesand the effectsof the pleasurable feeling of power that genre gives us? What happens to that power when conventionality tips in...

How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Ara...

A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasnt absent frombut rather was at the heart ofRoman religionB...

Romantic fiction has often involved stories of travel. In narratives of the journey towards love, romance often involves encounters with exotic pla...

An Open Access edition will be available on publication thanks to generous funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council; the University of...

At the end of Ode to a Nightingale, Keatss speaker famously asks of the foregoing reverie: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? This book is concern...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. In Traces of the Real: The Absent Presence of Photography in ...

A scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford, which has not seen much previous critical attention due to bein...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. Khitan and Mongol Imperial Women in the Chinese Imagination i...

This book makes available in English for the first time the work of the pioneering French interdisciplinary research group, Groupe de Recherche Int...

This witty novel can be seen as a reworking of Tobias Smollett's Roderick Random, albeit one in which the Scottish protagonist is able to navigate ...

This book is a collection of sixteen British comedies dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The works are chosen in chronological or...

The tragic conscience of modern Chinas most revered critic-translator, Fou Lei, is portrayed in this biography. Discoveries made in Parisian archiv...

This book explores the enduring myth of Antigone, constantly rediscovered and relevant across centuries. It examines how myth influences collective...

Lanfranc of Milan is one of the most influential medieval surgeons and his Latin works informed surgical practice until the seventeenth century. Bo...

This volume offers a wide variety of theoretical and critical reflections on the ways that different aspects of time and memory are deployed in lit...

This book explores the growing body of multimodal literary texts: books that creatively experiment with the potential of design to represent narrat...

Opening with an analysis of the concept of self-construal from Ren Descartes and Immanuel Kant to the beginning of the new millennium, this collect...

This book examines the representation and historical significance of the legendary Scandinavian past as it is depicted in two late medieval Iceland...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in England and Wales ...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in Scotland and Wales...

This collection of essays explores the phenomenon of inconsistency in the three major Latin epics of the Flavian Age (69-96 CE), Valerius Flaccus' ...

This book is a study of contemporary travel writing as a contested field of political and historical articulations. It poses the question of the re...

This book explores how three Anglo-Irish writers, J.C. Mangan, J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, use settings in their short fictions to recreate, depi...

This book explores the genesis of the Red Book (or Liber Novus), through the lens of Jungs lifelong confrontation with Dante and, in doing so, prov...

A new critical method for the Divine Comedy which focuses not only on language-as-writing but also and equally on other discursive modes that the D...

Informed by both new and old media theory, materialist approaches to the study of everyday objects, and a series of close readings that chart the c...

An exploration of the serialization of children's classics by contemporary publishers, this book digs into the impact of the practice and provides ...

This book examines the complexities of womens lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America through the literary works o...

Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat Generation from the critical lens of revisionist discourses. U...

This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movem...