Literary Studies: General

Offering a world full of traumatized characters trapped in a consumerist society where men, women, sex and gender have become unstable commodities,...

The Fifth Mrs Brink is Karina M Szczureks memoir of her life before, during and after her marriage to André P Brink. Polish-born Karina was twenty-...

While postcolonial studies of Romantic-period literature have flourished in recent years, scholars have long neglected the extent of Samuel Taylor ...

Sometimes called the Czech Bukowski, and more widely known by the epithet Magor (which translates roughly to fool or madman), Ivan Jirous was one o...

First full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower....

Established in 1935, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) sent around 6,500 unemployed historians, teachers, writers, and librarians out to document ...

An indispensable resource for students and researchers of paranormal myth and media, this horror anthology explores both popular and obscure pieces...

All Future Plunges to the Past explores how Russian writers from the mid-1920s on have read and responded to Joyce's work. Through contextually ric...

An analysis of the political and ecological consequences of charting the Amazon River basin in narrative ction, Mapping the Amazon examines how wi...

Until well into the twentieth century, the claims to citizenship of women in the US and in Europe have come through men (father, husband); women ha...

Twenty-First-Century Symbolism was the winner of the 2023 R. Gapper Book Prize. How do the writings of Verlaine, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé speak to ...

If we could ask a Romantic reader of new poetry in 1820 to identify the most celebrated poet of the day after Byron, the chances are that he or she...

The Doctrine of the Hert was the fifteenth-century English translation of De doctrina cordis, the thirteenth-century Latin devotional treatise addr...

The first modern edition of a text which shows the suspicion with which Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain was received two dec...

The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology. Millions of texts emerged from a complex network of writers, editors, publishers...

Volume 2 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien''s life and works ever published. This volume includes a superlative day-by-day ch...