Literature: History & Criticism

A close examination of the representation of criminals in the understudied theatrical genres of the jácara and comedias de valentones. Early Moder...

Places the warrior-poet Aldana in the appropriate poetic and philosophical context of the Spanish Golden Age and the European Renaissance. This st...

This anthology offers a panoramic snapshot of poetic practice today, showcasing both leading and emerging poets connected through their appearances...

theological, philosophical, scientific, social, and psychological matters, plans for and fragments of works, and many other items of great interest...

An international collection of the traditional tales that inspired some of Shakespeare's greatest playsShakespeare knew a good story when he heard ...

While presenting the Nobel Prize in Literature to J. M. G. Le Cl zio in 2008, the Nobel Committee called him the author of new departures, poetic ...

Nabokov's dream diarypublished for the first timeOn October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the ...

Hailed as irrepressibly spirited and entertaining (Pico Iyer, Time) and a fascinating cultural survey (Paul Devlin, Daily Beast), this provocative ...

Seminal investigations into the most important aspects of medieval Scots texts, with a particular focus on editing and manuscript context. This ri...

A reexamination of Austens unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novelsand that challenges distinctions between h...

Winner of the 2020-21 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize In March 1999, in an effort to stave off financial collapse, the Ecuadorian govern...

Written in the aftermath of the catastrophic sack of Rome in 1527, the historian Paolo Giovios dialogue provides an informed perspective on the eve...

Earthling is one of the oldest words in the English language, our original word for ploughman, a keeper of the earth. In poems simultaneously ordin...

How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetryIn his 1668 preface to Para...

Este libro muestra que Gabriel Miró no ha sido olvidado, sino que ha influido en la literatura hispánica posterior, en particular la novela de post...

The wealth and breadth of literature produced by African Americans is staggering and dates to the earliest days of black presence in the United Sta...

A friendship struck in 1942 would last for forty-one years through critical acclaim and rejection, commercial success and failure, manic highs, bou...

In her admired works of fiction, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal ...

Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had nothing to declare but my genius. But as Roy Morris, Jr., reveal...