Literature: History & Criticism

When Jesus offers his body as a promise to his disciples, he initiates a liturgical framework that is driven by irony and betrayal. Through these d...

The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or il...

The Artist and the Trinity' aims to create a Christian theology of work based on Dorothy L. Sayers' analogy of the Trinity to the process of artist...

A collection of original essays establishing how wide the intellectual boundaries of narrative theory have becomeThe Edinburgh Companion to Contemp...

Integrating forgotten tales of literary communities across Iran, Afghanistan and South Asia at a time when Islamic empires were fracturing and new...

Since the turn of the century, the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope has become a central figure in the critical understanding of Victorian liter...

Conspiracy theory in the Arab World has come to be associated with the rhetoric of Islamist extremists and authoritarian regimes. Yet its principle...

Charting an ''aesthetic'', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin''s art criticism in la...

Did you know that Ovid was a multifaceted icon of lovesickness, endless change, libertinism, emotional torment, and violence in early modern Englan...

Early Readers presents a number of innovative ways through which we might capture or infer traces of readers in cultures where most evidence has be...