Literary Studies: General

Transformations in Cuban art, literature and culture in the post-Fidel eraCuba has been in a state of massive transformation over the past decade, ...

The hard-boiled style of detective fiction emerged in America in the years after the First World War. In the late 1940s, following the Depressi...

Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and mod...

How should articulations of blackness from the fifth century BCE to the twenty-first century be properly read and interpreted? This important and t...

This book explores the concept of quiet an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles and argues for the terms application to the stu...

Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative, they bring aliv...

Although Americans are no longer compelled to learn Greek and Latin, classical ideals remain embedded in American law and politics, philosophy, ...

This volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on 19th century Russian writing, traditionally referred to as the Gold...

This study is a groundbreaking investigation into the formative influence of music on Virginia Woolf's writing. In this unique study Emma Sutton di...

Over the last three decades, Italian crime fiction has demonstrated a trend toward a much higher level of realism and complexity. The origins of th...

This anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations. Fifteen new...

From shambling zombies to Gothic ghosts, horror has entertained thrill-seeking readers for centuries. A versatile literary genre, it offers comment...

The iconic memoir from the Irish author of the legendary The Country Girls trilogy.'Get ready to applaud, ladies and gentlemen, because there is no...

This new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to one of Plautus' most whimsical, provocative, a...

A case study of the unusual liberties taken by the fifteenth-century Bohemian scribe Crux of Telcz. Passionate Copying in Late Medieval Bohemia add...

This book provides a comprehensive study of the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi, an influential ancient Greek text that narrates the lives of Homer and ...

In the light of recent scholarly work on tragic patterns and allusions in Flavian epic, the publication of a volume exclusively dedicated to the re...

Hergé's Tintin cartoon adventures have been translated into more than fifty languages and read by tens of millions of children aged, as their publi...

As traced by Roger D. Sell, literary communication is a process of community-making. As long as literary authors and those responding to them respe...