Literary Studies: General

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...

This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens’ poetry parallel concepts and techniques f...

First published in 1985, the essays in this edited collection offer a representative sample of the descriptive and systematic approach to the study...

Romance was criticized for its perceived immorality throughout the Renaissance, and even enthusiasts were often forced to acknowledge the shortcomi...

Set against the backdrop of a rapidly fissuring disciplinary landscape where poetry and science are increasingly viewed as irreconcilable and unrel...

In her compelling reexamination of Djuna Barnes's work, Daniela Caselli raises timely questions about Barnes, biography and feminist criticism, ide...

In der Untersuchung wird aufgezeigt, wie deutschsprachige Autoren südosteuropäischer Herkunft transkulturelle Räume in ihren Werken artikulieren un...

Perspectives on America's greatest living playwright that explore his longstanding commitment to forging a uniquely American theaterArthur Miller's...

This book is a study of twentieth century Polish literature in the contexts of queer theory, psychoanalysis and modernism studies. It presents read...

The purpose of this book is to present to scholars, students and enthusiasts in the fields of literature and linguistics a way to study a text anal...

In her lively and accessibly written book, Juliet McMaster examines Jane Austen’s acute and frequently uproarious juvenile works as important in th...

In both feminist theory and Shakespearean criticism, questions of sexuality have consistently been conflated with questions of gender. First publis...

Madame Bovary ranks among the world’s most famous and widely read novels, and has inspired numerous critical theories. First published in 1987, thi...

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

Editor Howard Goldblatt explains that while most societies analyse and revere their literary trends in retrospect, post-Liberation China’s literary...

As a comparative study which includes the analysis of both English-Canadian and Quebec novels, this book provides an overview of the novel as it ha...

This collection of twenty-one unabridged interviews puts us immediately in the company of one of the presiding literary figures of our times. This ...

Conversations with Erskine Caldwell contains thirty-two interviews with this major writer, who during his long career enjoyed both the celebrity an...

This book, written in Spanish, focuses on the literary and artistic works of such avant-garde figures as Ramon Gomez de la Serna, Benjamin Jarnes, ...

The English middle class in the late nineteenth century enjoyed an increase in the availability and variety of material goods. With that, the visua...

Responding to the pressures of current theoretical trends toward models of cultural globalization, the essays collected here bring a historical foc...

In Conversations with James Thurber this remarkable man who has been called America's twentieth-century Mark Twain and who was one of the great tal...

Why do writers so often write about writers? This book offers the first comprehensive account of the phenomenon of the fictional novelist as a char...