Literature: History & Criticism

This Element is the first monograph to focus on the presence and popularity of autofiction in contemporary theatre, a mode characterised by its mix...

Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader c...

This Element is the first monograph to focus on the presence and popularity of autofiction in contemporary theatre, a mode characterised by its mix...

This book offers a consistent, theoretically grounded, accessible account of adaptation across a range of instances, employing Relevance Theory as ...

That morning I woke up to a new message on Insta, from my boyfriend Ben. By this point Ben had been dead for two years. Definitely a new message. T...

Abstraction is one of the most important words in modernism and in the critical thought of modernity, yet its complex work is invariably hidden in ...

All authors try to do something new, or tell an old story in a new way; but for Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who wrote as Michael Field and ...

We share with Shakespeare, it seems, the assumption that to be human is to be an interpreter of oneself, others and the world seeking but not alwa...

Transcribing a text within a Medieval manuscript was often not a culturally and ideologically neutral act. The lack of direct control by the author...

Considered a genius in his own lifetime, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (18391908) is Brazil's most canonized writer. Yet, he remains a contested a...