Literature: History & Criticism

First full-length study of these crucial buildings in the Morte, looking at the interplay between characters and space. Castles play an integral p...

Introduces Skelton and his work to readers unfamiliar with the poet, gathers together the vibrant strands of existing research, and opens up new av...

The movement of the pilgrims in the Tales explored both practically and metaphorically, showing it to be an expression of identity. The Canterbury...

A series which is a monumental achievement (Review of English Studies). In 1755 Richard Rawlinson bequeathed his vast collection of books and manu...

A sensitive investigation into how French writers, including Descartes and Racine, treated a central preoccupation in early modern writings. Idola...

Employing close reading of a kind usually associated with the study of lyric poetry, this book offers a general framework for reading African-Ameri...

A comprehensive look at the academic criticism of Jane Austen from her time down to the present. Among the most important English novelists, Jane ...

First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the long twelfth century. The precedent of empire and the promise of return lay at ...

During the Manchu conquest of China (1640s1680s), the Qing government mandated that male subjects shave their hair following the Manchu style. It w...

Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205184 BC, are the earliest Latin ...

Austrian poet and playwright Ernst Jandl died in 2000, leaving behind his partner, poet Friederike Mayrocker and bringing to an end a half century ...

In 1801, some five years after Robert Burns death, nine of his friends sat down to dinner in what is now known as Burns Cottage in Alloway to celeb...