Literary Studies: General

This book undertakes a detailed reading of Robert Kroetsch’s The Studhorse Man, examining this Canadian novel in its transnational historical and s...

Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when di...

Endö Shüsaka is probably the most widely translated of all Japanese authors. In this first major study of Endö's works, Mark Williams moves the dis...

In this essay collection, the contributors contend that academic drama represents an important, but heretofore understudied, site of cultural produ...

Stimulated by new editions of Shelley's writings and the evidence of notebooks, the editors have assembled an outstanding group of international Sh...

As eighteenth-century scholarship expands its range, and disciplinary boundaries such as Enlightenment and Romanticism are challenged, novels publi...

1978 witnessed the publication of Peter Burke's groundbreaking study Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. Now in its third edition this remarkab...

At a time when postmodernism seems to have achieved a dominant position in cultural and critical theory, the contributors to this volume present a ...

Set against the backdrop of a rapidly fissuring disciplinary landscape where poetry and science are increasingly viewed as irreconcilable and unrel...

Between 1880 and 1914, England saw the emergence of an unprecedented range of new literary forms from Modernism to the popular thriller. Not coinci...

Milton's Ovidian Eve presents a fresh and thorough exploration of the classical allusions central to understanding Paradise Lost and to understandi...

How did witnesses of slavery relate their experiences and what effect did their reports have? This book examines travel accounts, fictions, poetry,...

Keiko Shiba, a noted researcher in early modern Japanese history, has spent years collecting hundreds of travel diaries written by women during the...

The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Beginning with a di...

Between the years 1677 and 1691 the Puritan minister Roger Morrice compiled an astonishingly detailed record of public affairs in Britain. Running ...

What makes someone an evil person? How are evil people different from merely bad people? Do evil people really exist? Can we make sense of evil peo...

Though the relationship of modernist writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence ...

The major claim made by this study is that early modern English prose fiction self-consciously invented a new form of literary culture in which pro...

The literature of Scandinavia is amazingly rich and varied, consisting of the works produced by the countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland a...

Becoming Human argues that human identity was articulated and extended across a wide range of textual, visual, and artifactual assemblages from the...

Radical reconfigurations in gardening practice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England altered the social function of the garden, offering me...

Beyond Eroticism translates and analyzes over forty songs and ninety jokes from Child's Folly, a trilogy of popular songs (Hanging Twigs), folksong...