Literature: History & Criticism

Georges Bataille was a philosopher, writer, librarian, pornographer and a founder of the influential journals Critique and Acéphale. He has had an ...

Since it was first published in 1980, Terry Jones's study of Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight has proved to be one of the most enduringly popular and cont...

Paragon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England, and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the ...

Ireland is suffering a crisis of authority. Catholic Church scandals, political corruption, and economic collapse have shaken the Irish people's fa...

Invention does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos Mary Shelley In the 200 years since its first publication, the story of ...

The Wind in the Willows has its origins in the bedtime stories that Kenneth Grahame told to his son Alastair and then continued in letters (now hel...

The locations of Shakespeares plays range from Greece, Turkey and Syria to England, and they range in time from 1000 BC to the early Tudor age. He ...

Within Shakespeares lifetime there was already some curiosity about what the writer of such brilliant poems, sonnets and plays looked like. Yet lik...

Each bi-annual volume presents vital information on approximately 20 of the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels.

In the context of today's significant struggles with 'fundamentalisms', media consolidation, and the stifling of dissent, Allen's close readings of...

Provides new perspectives on women's print media in the long eighteenth centuryThis innovative volume presents for the first time collective expert...

Highlighting the necessity of literary thinking to political philosophy, this book explores Shakespeare''s responses to sixteenth-century debates o...

Wartime British writers took to the airwaves to reshape the nation and the Empire'Writing the Radio War' positions the Second World War as a critic...

Explores intrinsic connections between early modern intelligencers and metadrama in the plays of Shakespeare's contemporariesIntelligence and Metad...

This book approaches Byron from a completely new angle: no longer seen in terms of his status as a celebrity and a star on the book-selling market,...

Brings Ben Jonson to the twenty-first century by reading Volpone through psychoanalysis, poststructuralism and MarxismThrough studying Volpone's th...