Literary Studies: General

What do the physical characteristics of the books acquired by elite women in the late medieval and early modern periods tell us about their owners,...

Shifting ideas about Geoffrey Chaucer's audience have produced radically different readings of Chaucer's work over the course of the past century. ...

As the first woman, Eve was the pattern for all her daughters. The importance of readings of Eve for understanding how women were viewed at various...

Providing a broad ranging and unique comparative study of the development of English, Persian and Arabic literature, this book looks at their inter...

Though Robert Fergusson published only one collection of poems during his lifetime, he was a fixture in the Scottish periodical press. Rhona Brown ...

This book critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Increasingly scholars have come to realise that the domin...

First published in 2002. This is the final Volume IV of the five G. Wilson Knight collected works series and focuses on Shakespeare as the Poet of ...

Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a pro...

This book examines how reading is represented within the novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Contemporary accounts portraye...

Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism examines those fundamental themes which inform our understanding of "the teenager"—themes that emerge...

This study analyzes the relationship between race and genre in four of Toni Morrison’s novels: The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Jazz, and Beloved. Heinert...

The destructive power of obsessive love was a defining subject of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian literature. In Febris Erotica, Sobol a...

Most early modern scholars know that Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) is important, but may be rather vague as to where his importance lies. This new colle...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses...

Gathered together for the first time, the essays in this volume were selected to give scholars ready access to important late-twentieth and early t...

"What then is the American, this new man?" This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each ...

In Romantic Complexity, Jack Stillinger examines three of the most admired poets of English Romanticism--Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth--with a f...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses...

How have nations and nationhood become the dominant form of political organization today? What is the role of culture in nationalism? In what ways ...

This book is a translation of one of the most important Turkish scholarly works of the twentieth century. It was the masterpiece of M.F. Koprulu, o...

In this bold new book, Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth traces the broadly established challenges to modernity that now confront historians and citizens of ...

The love of place is endemic in English literature, from the work of the earliest poets and hermits to the suburban celebrations of John Betjeman, ...

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini...