Literary Studies: General

This book examines the representation and historical significance of the legendary Scandinavian past as it is depicted in two late medieval Iceland...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in England and Wales ...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in Scotland and Wales...

This collection of essays explores the phenomenon of inconsistency in the three major Latin epics of the Flavian Age (69-96 CE), Valerius Flaccus' ...

This book is a study of contemporary travel writing as a contested field of political and historical articulations. It poses the question of the re...

This book explores how three Anglo-Irish writers, J.C. Mangan, J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, use settings in their short fictions to recreate, depi...

This book explores the genesis of the Red Book (or Liber Novus), through the lens of Jungs lifelong confrontation with Dante and, in doing so, prov...

A new critical method for the Divine Comedy which focuses not only on language-as-writing but also and equally on other discursive modes that the D...

Informed by both new and old media theory, materialist approaches to the study of everyday objects, and a series of close readings that chart the c...

An exploration of the serialization of children's classics by contemporary publishers, this book digs into the impact of the practice and provides ...

This book examines the complexities of womens lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America through the literary works o...

Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat Generation from the critical lens of revisionist discourses. U...

This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movem...

This book considers the new ways time was experienced in the sixteenth- and seventeeth-century Hispanic world in the framework of global Catholicis...

Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare is a study of the power of names; more specifically, it is about the power of naming, asking who gets to choose na...

One of the remarkable facts about the history of Western culture is that we are still in a position to read large amounts of the literature produce...

The first volume of its kind to integrate trends in Translation Studies with Classical Reception Studies A Companion to the Translation of Classic...

The first volume of its kind to integrate trends in Translation Studies with Classical Reception Studies A Companion to the Translation of Classic...

This book explores how histories of migration, cultural encounter and transculturation have shaped formations of urban space, domestic architecture...

This is the first scholarly attempt to write a history of cyber literary criticism in China. The author uses the Internet as the departure point, l...

This is the first new critical edition of De beneficiis in almost 100 years, based on a fresh examination of the extant archetype (N) and on more e...

Eine tägliche [] Buchführung mit sich selbst war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. S...

Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about, this book shows how the ...