Literary Studies: General

Invectives against Antony.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more tha...

An Open Letters Review Best Book of the YearAngelo Poliziano (14541494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance and the leadi...

Invectives against Antony.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more t...

Este libro ofrece la primera revisión en forma de volumen monográfico de las transferencias culturales de Gran Bretaña a España en el siglo XVIII. ...

Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. Delivers some fascinat...

The definitive English edition of the Father of Medicine.This is the tenth volume in the Loeb Classical Librarys ongoing edition of Hippocrates inv...

An investigation into two important Saints Lives provides a window into the Anglo-Saxon perception of the non-human world. The question of the rel...

Oratory and philosophy from a Latin novelist.Apuleius, one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was born ca. AD 125 in Madauros to a politica...

AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY was established at a time of uncertainty and reconstruction but for 50 years it has played a leading role in nurturing ima...

Combines an overview of academic approaches to life writing with case studies from crucial periods of twentieth-century German history. Life writi...

This first book-length study of Pound criticism investigates not just what critics have had to say about Pound but also why they have asked the que...

Examination of texts concerning the vikings reveals much about their origin myth and legend. Viking settlers and their descendants inhabited both ...

First full-length investigation of Elizabethan and Jacobean genealogy, showing how it could be manipulated to legitimise - and oppose. Shakespeare...

Nigel Bryant's is the first translation of an example of the many medieval romances about Alexander, as popular in their day as those about Arthur....

The role of natural science in the Roman Imperial Era In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakeably demonstrates a huge interest in the worl...

This collection of 12 new essays brings together prominent literary experts to explore the importance of Scottish writer Iain (M.) Banks, both h...

This book delineates different manifestations of the vagabond spirit of poetry through the ages. In doing so, it makes claims for the efficacy of p...

Modernism in mathematics this unusual notion turns out to provide a new perspective on central questions in and beyond literary modernism. Contra...

When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling ...

Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser's The Making o...

Growing up in the suburbsconfused about his sexuality, about his consumer-oriented world, about the death of his older brotherBernard Cooper falls ...

These delightful poems - by turns whimsical, beautiful, and vulgar - seem to have primarily survived because they were attributed to Virgil. But in...

People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory--but they were st...