Literary Studies: General

Imagine sitting with an esteemed writer on his or her front porch somewhere in the world and swapping life stories. Dr. Wayne Flynt got the opportu...

The first full biography of Warren Lewis, brother and secretary of C. S. LewisDetailing the life of Warren Hamilton Lewis, author Don W. King gives...

Jane Bradley's career was launched when the University of Arkansas Press published her first collection of short stories, Power Lines, in 1989. The...

WINNER OF THE PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATIONPearl is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantea...

A survey of the different literary forms adopted by history writers after the Conquest, exploring why and for what effects they were used. Histori...

A re-evaluation of the mysterious charms found in Anglo-Saxon literature, arguing for their place in mainstream Christian rites. Since its incepti...

Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the...

Born into poverty with an abusive home life, Dean Koontz found a respite in books. As he began a writing career in the late 1960s, Koontz began inj...

The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, ac...

This book examines the ways in which ideas about children, childhood and Ireland changed together in Irish Protestant writing of the seventeenth an...

Among the greatest novels of the twentieth century, A Passage to India is set in pre-Independence India. A compelling portrait of a society in the ...

Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs charts the aesthetic and political formation of neoliberalism and globalization in Israeli and Palestinian liter...

Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians has been a popular and influential text from antiquity onwards. It is a suspenseful drama set on the Black...

Undoubtedly the most notorious title in director Ken Russell's controversial filmography, The Devils (1973) caused a real furor on its initial thea...

Anthony Gibson explores the counties of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and Gloucestershire, findin...

The pride o' a' our Scottish plain; Thou gi'es us joy to hear thy strain, (Janet Little, 'An Epistle to Mr Robert Burns') The 18th century saw Sc...

These three books reflect the beginnings of one of the most radical and exhilarating figures in modern literatureIncandescent Limbo recounts White'...

This is the first work of criticism to reappraise all of this leading transnational authors film, television, short fiction and novel writing follo...