Literary Studies: General

Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on t...

“A good place to be from.” That’s how some people might characterize the Buckeye State. The writings in Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up i...

The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse. Reference...

The study of Assamese literature has so far been in terms of the history of the Assamese language. This book is a history of the narratives written...

In a draft attached to a letter to his friend and confidante Wilhelm Fliess (May 31, 1897), Freud develops an idea: The mechanism of fiction is the...

Known today primarily as the author of Our Town, probably America's most beloved and widely produced play, Thornton Wilder is the only writer ever ...

First published in 1993. This annotated bibliography covers all material relating to A Tale o f Two Cities from Dickens’s first hints of it in his ...

Is knowledge power? In Teach the Nation , Anne-Elizabeth Murdy explores the history and contradictions in the notion that education and literacy a...

Most critics and literary historians have ignored Marxist-inspired creative literature in Canada, or dismissed it as an ephemeral phenomenon of the...

The caste system is supposed to be inescapable-you cannot change the caste into which you are born. But are there ways to elude the system? Conceal...

First published in 1984, this title examines the development of a special rhetoric in Dickens’ work, which, by using grotesque effects, challenged ...

During the eighteenth century, treatises on the science of elocution, gesture and naturalness abounded. This title draws together a representative ...

The monograph discusses the relation between language and visual culture, focusing on two Chaucerian narratives, «Knight’s Tale» and «Troilus and C...

The Social Life of Criticism explores the cultural representation of the female critic in Victorian Britain, focusing especially on how women write...

Medieval manuscript culture organizes reading as a visual experience. Early fifteenth-century Paris saw a proliferation of luxury manuscripts whose...

A new reading of madness in Don Quixote based on archival accounts of insanity. From the records of the Spanish Inquisition, Dale Shuger presents a...

The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species....

Inspiration and Transcendence in the Fiction of Kate Chopin: Echoes of Nineteenth Century German Women and Women Writers marks the first comprehens...

In Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus, author Arum Park explores two notoriously difficult ancient Greek poets and seeks to art...

Winner of the 2021 Best International Book Award from the Mormon History Association In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels,...

Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body is the first book-length study about the influence of travel on Robe...

Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and The Piano Lesson, among other dramatic works, is o...

Le lecteur des huit cents pages du Voyage en Orient de Gérard de Nerval peut difficilement concevoir les étapes de la constitution de ce riche et l...

A History of Icelandic Literature provides a complete overview of the literature of Iceland, from the country's settlement in the ninth century unt...

Flannery O’Connor may now be acknowledged as the “Great American Catholic Author,” but this was not always the case. With Creating Flannery O’Conno...

Women Warriors in Romantic Drama examines a recurring figure that appears in French, British, and German drama between 1789 and 1830: the woman war...

This is a selection of interviews with William Styron published during the period 1951-1984, from the months just following publication of Lie Down...

With increasing candor and openness May Sarton's conversations have given an intimate view of her honest, courageous inner life. Best known to her ...

“A good place to be from.” That’s how some people might characterize the Buckeye State. The writings in Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up i...

First published in 1988, this study explains how certain genres created by Classical poets were adapted and sometimes transformed by the poets of t...

The book presents contributions to the 2012 conference of the Austrian Association of University Teachers of English in which scholars of various f...