Literature: History & Criticism

The period covered in this volume witnessed the proliferation of print culture and the greater availability of periodicals for an increasingly dive...

Autumn is the inspiration behind this anthology, but not necessarily the destination. The destination is the discovery of the human condition, the ...

Poems that ask an urgent question:  how might a white friend write in protest of intimate Black death without becoming complicit in the commodifica...

Between Self and Society explores the psychosocial dramas that galvanize six major British novels written between the eighteenth and twentieth cent...

Medizin und Literatur zusammenzubringen ist verheißungsvoll, denn die Literatur lässt uns mit dem Leben in Berührung treten, und so vermittelt die ...

Pushing beyond the anthologized writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson frequently taught in American literature courses, this book examines the corpus of ...

Despite its small size, epigram attracted some of the best poetic talents of antiquity, exerting a strong influence on Latin literature and continu...

Early Greek hexameter poetry and its language is the focus of this book, and McConnell addresses the question of why the Greek in which this poetry...

This book critically engages criminal law issues relating to sexuality and violence in order to argue that an attention to emotions can produce a m...

This book is a feminist analysis of Greek myth and tragedy that reimagines the structures of Freudian theory. The objective of this analysis is pol...

This Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of 3,000 years of Chinese literature from its earliest beginnings to the end of the Qing (1644-1911...

Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of cre...

A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER 'He understands only ...

The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel analyses the representation of the doctor-patient relationship in the ninet...

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ist neben Schiller und Goethe der meistgelesene und -unterrichtete deutsche Dichter des 18. Jahrhunderts. Sein Werk, das v...

The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire era, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale of illicit desire, grand...

What are the sourcesand the effectsof the pleasurable feeling of power that genre gives us? What happens to that power when conventionality tips in...

How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Ara...