Literary Studies: General

Louis MacNeice is increasingly recognised as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his work has been a defining influence upon a ...

Is hideous prose and ghastly poetry more fabulous than great literature? Determined to find out, award-winning comedian Robin Ince has spent most o...

Doris Lessing is a writer for all times; she is a historiographer and a transnational translational mediator between the East and the West. This vo...

This book studies the questions of authority and authorship in William Shakespeares problematic masterpiece Hamlet. It argues that the Bard seeks t...

James Fenimore Cooper and Cormac McCarthy are two of the most celebrated and influential writers of the American West. Both have written powerful n...

From Britains Downton Abbey and Dancing on the Edge to Woody Allens Midnight in Paris and Baz Luhrmanns The Great Gatsby, the Jazz Ages presence in...

This book presents the complete Old English text of Beowulf, the most celebrated poem of the Anglo-Saxon era, in short sections followed by verse t...

Examines the cultural importance of the coastline in the nineteenth-century British imaginationThe long nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic, va...

In Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England, Lori Ann Garner illuminates the idiomatic and traditional meanings ...

Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical ...

The novelist Henry James arrived in Venice as a tourist, and instantly fell in love with the city particularly with the splendid Palazzo Barbaro, ...