Literary Studies: General

Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture is a collection of a dozen essays by Caribbean scholars living in the Caribbean and aroun...

This volume brings together papers that examine American literary texts and cultural phenomena as manifestations and/or expressions of nostalgia. I...

This book arises from a symposium held in Oxford to consider the most fruitful trajectories of rhetoric in the 21st century. The gathering comprise...

Globalization, the concept used to account for the multitude of linkages, interconnections and interdependences that currently transcend territoria...

This book observes images of Montenegro in Anglo-American creative writing and films from the late eighteenth century until 2016. Like the Balkans ...

Focusing on the core assessment objectives for GCSE English Literature 9-1, The Quotation Bank takes 25 of the most important quotations from the t...

The volume offers a variety of new interpretations of a selection of well-known and culturally established works of verbal and visual culture. It d...

States of Decadence is a two volume anthology that focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence. Particular attention is given to l...

This volume brings together approaches to, and perspectives on, English, Spanish, and Galician language, literature, and culture from the fields of...

This volume explores the life stories of Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Alice James, and Edith Wharton, whose individuation process mirrored Dem...

Ralph Ellison has long been admired as the author of one of the most important American novels of the twentieth century, Invisible Man. Yet he has ...

The question of Modern Greek identity is certainly timely. The political events of the previous years have once more brought up such questions as: ...

A 'stuccoed town in the Regency manner', a watering place that became the most fashionable resort in England following George III's visit, or a pla...

From Cinderella to comic con to colonialism and more, this companion provides readers with a comprehensive and current guide to the fantastic, unca...

Say It Hot Volume II: Industrial Strength is a collection of essays on American poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and issues of interest ...

Hans Sachs (1494-1576), while also a cobbler, was the most prolific German author of the 16th century. He was the immediate literary successor in p...

How does a Western cencus taker count non-bodies, or tally marriages in which the only legal and binding ones are bel fruits? Marilyn Stablein lead...

This revised and expanded volume examines the intersections of aesthetics and morality and asks what Decadence means to art and society at various ...