Literature: History & Criticism

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...

Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as Michael Fieldand who were partners and lovers for decadesis one of the...

A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasnt absent frombut rather was at the heart ofRoman religionB...

Critical Pedagogy and the Trouble with Consciousness Raising incisively critiques the consciousness-raising project that has been so central to con...

South Asian Disability and Deaf Theatres investigates translocal intimacies in relation to 21st century transnational South Asian disability theatr...

Speculative Affect: Objects and Emotions is an edited collection examining the intersection between affect and objects in the fields of literature,...

An Open Access edition will be available on publication thanks to generous funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council; the University of...

At the end of Ode to a Nightingale, Keatss speaker famously asks of the foregoing reverie: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? This book is concern...

A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquenceIn ancient Greek mythology, the l...

2,500 years of Indias dazzling literary tradition, translated from a wide range of classical languages, and introduced by an award-winning poet.Rom...

Gestures: A body of work is a cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture that considers the terms complex registers across emb...

This international and interdisciplinary volume investigates Protestant devotional identities in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Divide...

A scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford, which has not seen much previous critical attention due to bein...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. Khitan and Mongol Imperial Women in the Chinese Imagination i...

This book makes available in English for the first time the work of the pioneering French interdisciplinary research group, Groupe de Recherche Int...

This book addresses W.B. Yeatss and Rabindranath Tagores engagements with identity, nationalism, and the literary and cultural traditions of Irelan...

This book includes the history of Chinese literature before 1949. It firstly outlines the development process of Chinese literature and basic featu...

This book is a phenomenological exploration of wandering and dwelling in the (selected) works of V. S. Naipaul, W. G. Sebald, and T. G. Tranströmer...

This book is a collection of sixteen British comedies dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The works are chosen in chronological or...

The tragic conscience of modern Chinas most revered critic-translator, Fou Lei, is portrayed in this biography. Discoveries made in Parisian archiv...

This book explores the enduring myth of Antigone, constantly rediscovered and relevant across centuries. It examines how myth influences collective...

Lanfranc of Milan is one of the most influential medieval surgeons and his Latin works informed surgical practice until the seventeenth century. Bo...

This volume offers a wide variety of theoretical and critical reflections on the ways that different aspects of time and memory are deployed in lit...

This book explores the growing body of multimodal literary texts: books that creatively experiment with the potential of design to represent narrat...

This book examines the representation and historical significance of the legendary Scandinavian past as it is depicted in two late medieval Iceland...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in England and Wales ...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in Scotland and Wales...

This collection of essays explores the phenomenon of inconsistency in the three major Latin epics of the Flavian Age (69-96 CE), Valerius Flaccus' ...

This book presents a collection of chapters that revise past, present and future approaches related to Shakespeare on Film in order to trace the mo...

This book explores how three Anglo-Irish writers, J.C. Mangan, J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, use settings in their short fictions to recreate, depi...

This handbook offers scholars an overview of the state of research and students a sense of how American poetry from its first forms evolving in th...

This book proposes the term 'emergent poetics' to synthesize two divergent strands in contemporary literary media theory - the media archaeology of...

The Works of Lin Yutang is the first book to provide a comprehensive study of Lin Yutangs translation theory and translated (and written) works in ...

This book explores the genesis of the Red Book (or Liber Novus), through the lens of Jungs lifelong confrontation with Dante and, in doing so, prov...

A new critical method for the Divine Comedy which focuses not only on language-as-writing but also and equally on other discursive modes that the D...