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Say It Hot Volume II: Industrial Strength is a collection of essays on American poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and issues of interest ...

Hans Sachs (1494-1576), while also a cobbler, was the most prolific German author of the 16th century. He was the immediate literary successor in p...

How does a Western cencus taker count non-bodies, or tally marriages in which the only legal and binding ones are bel fruits? Marilyn Stablein lead...

This revised and expanded volume examines the intersections of aesthetics and morality and asks what Decadence means to art and society at various ...

Culminating with the international success of The Polished Hoe in 2002, Austin Clarke has published 11 novels, six short-story collections, four me...

Oscar Wilde famously spoke of 'the critic as artist' whilst Terry Eagleton once celebrated 'the critic as clown'. This exciting new volume brings t...

For a long time I used to go to bed early: possibly the most famous opening line in the French language and the first words of a masterly work whos...

Arthur Hallam's early death was the subject of Tennyson's celebrated poem In Memoriam. As a result of its popularity, Hallam became a legendary fig...

Oscar Wilde famously spoke of 'the critic as artist' whilst Terry Eagleton once celebrated 'the critic as clown'. This exciting new volume brings t...

What is the source of a book's perceived greatness and why do certain books become part of the accepted canon? This book presents a fresh perspecti...

Reading, reading and reading. In the 21st century, the computer is king and the cell phone is its only competitor. For those who have ever intervie...