Literature: History & Criticism

A dazzling account of the development of American cultural hegemony from one of the world's leading literary theorists. Franco Moretti, acclaimed a...

Can the tension between relativism and the moral universalism current in contemporary politics be resolved within the framework of liberalism? How ...

In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers how the Marxian concept of Real Abstraction--originally developed...

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night, wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very diff...

Roberto Schwarz is the foremost literary critic of his generation in Brazil and the most important Marxist practitioner in the tradition of the Fra...

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.