Literary Studies: General

Drawing on history, art history, literary criticism and theory, gender studies, theology and psychoanalysis, this interdisciplinary study analyzes ...

Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests way...

This book intervenes in transatlantic and hemispheric studies by positing "America" as not a particular country or continent but a foundational nar...

Through a wide-ranging series of essays and relevant readings, A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction presents an overview of Ameri...

In her innovative study of spatial locations in postcolonial texts, Sara Upstone adopts a transnational and comparative approach that challenges th...

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the ...

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Neither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documen...

In this timely study, Batra examines contemporary drama from India, Jamaica, and Nigeria in conjunction with feminist and incipient queer movements...

In 2002, at the annual Zimbabwe International Book Fair, twelve literary books by African women were included for the first time in the category of...

Medieval English Drama provides a fresh introduction to the dramatic and festive practices of England in the late Middle Ages. The book places part...

This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers. Traces the rise ...

This book presents a number of essays written by specialists in various fields that include literary criticism, linguistics, sociology, history and...

No other edition offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes, plot summaries, particularly vital as stories are complex and interw...

Hans-Georg Gadamer’s theory of hermeneutics is one of the most important modern theories of interpretation and understanding, and at its heart is t...

The history of the shifting image of the tomboy in popular culture

Raphael Holinshed's account of English history from 1377-1485 in the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland is most well-known as the source ...

Hasidic tales as expressions of resistance to modernity, tensions with tradition, and struggles between soul and body

This volume contains the four plays by Thomas Middleton which have most impressed the modern world: "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" is the most comple...

An in-depth exploration, through his plays and poems, of the philosophy of Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a "great mind". Wri...

Does the habit of taking drugs make authors write better, or worse, or differently? Does it alter the quality of their consciousness, shape their i...

'It was early in a fine summer's day, near the end of the eighteenth century, when a young man, of genteel appearance, having occasion to go toward...

In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was di...

The chapters in this volume, a groundbreaking work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric American studies, expand the horizons of Canadian and Que...

Despite his protests, Anne Gilchrist, distinguished woman of letters, moved her entire household from London to Philadelphia in an effort to marry ...