Literature: History & Criticism

This book argues that the British government's repression of the 1790s rivals the French Revolution as the most important historical event for our ...

The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson is the autobiographical narrative of a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage. ...

The cache of bamboo texts unearthed in the village of Guodian, Hubei Province, in 1993 is a rare and unique find in the history of Chinese philosop...

Nearly 130 years after the introduction of Sherlock Holmes to readers, the Great Detective's identity is being questioned, deconstructed, and recon...

That's Raven Talk: Holophrastic Readings of Contemporary Indigenous Literatures is the first comprehensive study of North American Indigenous langu...

In this title, contemporary creative writers reflect on the past, present and future of the novel. In 2012-2013, a year-long conversation between w...

More than a personal account of a career in education, but an argument for an idea, Extramural is an argument for the lifelong pursuit of knowledge...

The writers of these chapters are often working with changing assumptions about literary and media interpretations of an American West. Here we see...

This first book-length critical examination of the life and work of Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) reveals a major English writer whose prodigious o...

The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text ...

An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical workIn 1856, Marian Evans completed her translat...

The Instructions are Saint Louis''s second set of recommendations, which he addressed to his daughter Isabelle, who later became Queen of Navarre. ...

Barbarino''s orthographic study is a quantitative and comparative analysis of the alternation of B and V in Latin inscriptions. His data is drawn f...

Based on an analysis of Sherwood Anderson's letters, this study explores the novelist's principal inspiration during his final years (1938-1941)...

Game of Thrones has changed the landscape of television during an era hailed as the Golden Age of TV. An adaptation of George R.R. Martins epic fan...

Playwright, biographer, screenwriter, and critic S. N. Behrman (1893-1973) characterized the years he spent writing for The New Yorker as a time de...

When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkins masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famou...

Despite centuries of Catholic conservatism, Spain stands among the Western countries that have recently embraced non-traditional families. A declin...