Literature: History & Criticism

This book argues that the rapid development of anti-vagrancy laws in the late nineteenth century, which were written alongside widespread public fa...

Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry explores the question of poetry's relation to time and argues that this relation is historically continge...

What is a reference to an Italian Egyptologist doing in Louisa May Alcott's portrait of domesticity Little Women? Why does Elizabeth Stuart Phelps'...

Conversion machines are apparatuses, artfully-fashioned preparations, arrangements and things that demonstrate processes of change. They are parado...

How did ideas about the poet's art surface in early modern texts? By looking into the intersections between poetry, poetics and other discourses l...

Conversion machines are apparatuses, artfully-fashioned preparations, arrangements and things that demonstrate processes of change. They are parado...

Originally published in 1930, the main focus of this book is the study of the man and the homes for children which he founded but against a backdro...

Culture and Circulation takes an innovative approach to early modern Indian literature. The authors foreground the complex hybridity of literary ge...

This book draws on empirical studies of classrooms teaching The Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra to demonstrate how novels can effectively help ...

This book argues that literary and historiographical works written by Iberian Christians between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries promoted contr...

American author Willa Cather was born and spent her first nine years in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Here, as an observant daughter of a priv...

Kenneth White (19362023) established his reputation as a poet, essayist and travel writer in France in the 1970s and 80s, having left Britain in 19...

Chinese Literature in English Sinology takes an exciting new approach to Sino-British literary and cultural encounters in the nineteenth century, f...