Literary Studies: General

What can music teach a novelist, autobiographer, or playwright about the art of telling stories? The musical play of forms and sounds seems initial...

Spaces of the Mind reveals how both immigrant European and modern Native communities and individuals use oral and written narratives to define and ...

We usually think of women as the victims of pornography rather than its consumers. Whether appearing in films, peering provocatively from the pages...

For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study ...

Milton’s early commentators—Henry Todd, Thomas Newton, Joseph Addison, and others—not only knew their classics well, they took them seriously as mo...

Exploring the wealth of writings by early American women in a broad spectrum of genres, Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America presents one ...

This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcoloni...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions ...

This book analyses the 'waste versus profit' concept (as propounded by the British author Samuel Smiles and which found many supporters in mid-nine...

Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704) was one of the most remarkable, significant and colourful figures in seventeenth-century England. Whilst there has bee...

Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propiti...

Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and ...

This book offers a classic survey of modern English poetry from the new tradition established by Yeats in the 1890s through to Eliot, including a r...

The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly a...

"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 ...

A comprehensive reading of Mark Twain's major work At the end of his long life, Samuel Clemens felt driven to write a truthful account of what he r...

The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern reade...

While Johnson charged that Milton "unhappily perplexed his poetry with his philosophy," Stephen M. Fallon argues that the relationship between Milt...

By taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use of formal and generic structures to constitute themselves in writing, the essays...

'Conversation is the beginning and end of knowledge', wrote Stephano Guazzo in his Civil Conversation. Like Guazzo's, this is a book dedicated to t...

Herman Melville’s Bartleby, asked to account for himself, “would prefer not to.” Tongue-tied Billy Budd, urged to defend his innocence, responds wi...

In this study of collaborative writing in western American literature, Linda K. Karell asks broad and fruitful questions about how writing in gener...

This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by ...

This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it. Places th...