Literary Studies: General

Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was a prolific Spanish realist novelist, who through a lack of good translations is virtually unknown outside Spa...

A comparative study of T. S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens, and their struggle with the Humanist background of late nineteenth century Harvard

At the centre of Hide and Seek (1854) a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to accoun...

American independence was inevitable by 1780, but British writers spent the several decades following the American Revolution transforming their fo...

This book aims to provide a historical account of the All-India Progressive Writers’ Association (AIPWA). In a structured narrative, it focuses on ...

Taking up works by Samuel Richardson, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Scott, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick, among others, Jennifer B. Camden exami...

Thomas More: Utopia/ Francis Bacon: New Atlantis/Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More introduced i...

The work of Samuel Weber has greatly influenced writers and thinkers across the arts and humanities: including literary, critical, and cultural the...

Historians of early modern Europe have long stressed how new practices of diplomacy that emerged during the period transformed European politics. F...

This book presents the proceedings of the fifth and final meeting of the International Dante Seminar. It addresses four major topics of present-day...

This important new edition of one of Shakespeare's more neglected plays offers a wide-ranging critical introduction, concentrating on its relevance...

Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establ...

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

`She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.'...

'It has been said by its opponents that science divorces itself from literature; but the statement, like so many others, arises from lack of knowle...

Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English Traveller In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea...

A provocative look at Shakespeare in his age by one of our most influential theater figures This book is a masterful and engaging exploration of bo...

This book marks a new departure in the study of Dickens. The authors make use of first-hand evidence of Dickens’ actual methods and conditions of w...

It is a journey through wondrous words that begins with Columbus's earliest explorations when he first "tests the heft and roundness of this earth ...

'he looked up wistfully in my face, and gravely asked - "Mamma, why are you so wicked?"' The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall has a dark sec...

This is the first interdisciplinary study of one of the crucial elements of medieval imaginations of the world: blood. It takes a theoretically inf...

John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous her...

Cited by Lukács as a principal source of literary modernism, Walter Benjamin's study of the baroque stage-form called Trauerspiel (literally, "mour...

The children's novel "Black Beauty" written by Anna Sewell wrote the children's novel "Black Beauty" in her fifties, and sold it outright for GBP20...