Literary Studies: General

Award-winning playwright, author and critic Bonnie Greer's touching, funny and thought-provoking memoir is a voyage into the making of a woman who ...

From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the ch...

The most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for a decade'  Financial TimesTo be savoured for its vivid and sympathetic recre...

What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal te...

Over the past fifty years, feminist literary criticism has become theoretical rather than practical, severing any relationship between literary ana...

Romanticism had its roots in fantasy and fed on myth'. So Roderick Cavaliero introduces the European Romantic obsession with the Orient.Cavaliero d...

In 1959, C. P. Snow lamented the presence of what he called the 'two cultures': the apparently unbridgeable chasm of understanding and knowledge be...

In this compelling collection of essays contributors critically examine Creative Writing in American Higher Education. Considering Creative Writing...

The market for print steadily expanded throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world thanks to printers' efforts  to ensure that ordinary people...

The Spanish-American War of 1898 seems to mark a turning point in both geopolitical and literary histories. The victorious American empire ascended...

The Towneley plays are a collection of biblical plays in the Huntington Library's MS HM 1, a manuscript once owned by the Towneley family of Townel...

In a work of scholarship both erudite and funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the a...

Written in the shadow of the approaching millennium, American literature in the 1990s was beset by bleak announcements of the end of books, the end...

The first book in English to examine one of the most important and influential texts from a literary perspective. Le Devisement du Monde (1298), b...

This special edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës commemorates the bicentenary of Emily Brontë's birth in July 1818 and provides comprehe...