Literary Studies: General

Defoe's Writings and Manliness is a timely intervention in Defoe studies and in the study of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature more gene...

Twelve novels and nine short stories define one of the most extraordinary fictional characters of all time, creating the basis for the most success...

Through examination of the functions of language and cross-cultural readings of literature – from African queer reading to postcolonial Shakespeare...

Unique in combining a comprehensive and comparative study of genre with a study of romance, this book constitutes a significant contribution to ong...

Beginning with a subtle and persuasive analysis of the cultural context, Farebrother examines collage in modernist and Harlem Renaissance figurativ...

What was the relationship between power and the public sphere in early modern society? How did the printed media inform this relationship? Contribu...

Bringing to light new material about early print, early modern gender discourses, and cultural contact between France and England in the revolution...

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

Knowledge and Self-Knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus advances a new explanation for the apparent failure of the Theaetetus to come to a satisfactory ...

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, British society gradually began to see 'adolescence' as a distinct social entity worthy of con...

Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and the literary, David Houston Wood suggests that the recent critical attention to ...

The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent analyzes fiction, films, comics, autobiographical narratives, and essays by Francophone Arab writers whose Ch...

Known for his prophetic and imaginative works of poetry, painting, and printmaking, William Blake was also a prolific reader and annotator of ot...

Political science is becoming ever more reliant on abstract statistical models and almost divorced from human judgment, hope, and idealism. William...

Maisie Ward's biography of Gilbert Keith Chesterton has long been a cornerstone in Chesterton studies, as well as in the publishing house she and h...

This volume illustrates the significance of epistolarity as a literary phenomenon intricately interwoven with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cu...

Focusing on multiple aspects of Renaissance culture, and in particular its preoccupation with the reading and rewriting of classical sources, this ...

Arguing that vision was the dominant mode for understanding suffering in the Romantic era, Elizabeth A. Dolan shows that Mary Wollstonecraft, Charl...

Tracing the publishing history of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford from its initial 1851-53 serialization in Dickens's Household Words through its nume...

Framed by an understanding that the very concept of what defines the human is often influenced by Renaissance and early modern texts, this book est...

This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of ...

With its emphasis on early modern emissaries and their role in England's expansionary ventures and cross-cultural encounters across the globe, this...