Literature: History & Criticism

«The authors in this inspiring volume focus on the socially transformative potential narrative has to shape understandings of albinism in Africa. S...

Talking Shakespeare is a collection of essays on Shakespeares plays and politics and their impact in the world today. Originally given as provocat...

Surgery, bacteriology, psychiatry medicine fascinated writers and filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s. But why did medicine capture the creative ima...

This study focuses on theatricality and melancholia in John Berryman's The Dream Songs, and proposes to view them as inherent in the American cultu...

This study focuses on theatricality and melancholia in John Berryman's The Dream Songs, and proposes to view them as inherent in the American cultu...

This collection of essays demonstrates that using fiction, poetry, and drama in the classroom provides students with the best opportunity to learn ...

This collection of essays demonstrates that using fiction, poetry, and drama in the classroom provides students with the best opportunity to learn ...

This monograph is focused on the fictional works of Arnold Bennett whose literary role was very important in the history of the late nineteenth and...

The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors purposefully to resea...

The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors purposefully to resea...

The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors purposefully to resea...

Why, during the last two hundred years, when critical achievement in the field of tragedy has been outstanding, has there been little creative prac...

Why, during the last two hundred years, when critical achievement in the field of tragedy has been outstanding, has there been little creative prac...

Why, during the last two hundred years, when critical achievement in the field of tragedy has been outstanding, has there been little creative prac...

Addressing all readers who value the beauty of language, Anna Balakian examines the work of five twentieth-century poets--Yeats, Valry, Rilke, Stev...

Addressing all readers who value the beauty of language, Anna Balakian examines the work of five twentieth-century poets--Yeats, Valry, Rilke, Stev...

The Futurists produced most conspicuous, creative, and diverse figures of sound in the Polish avant-garde. The book is a comparative study of the P...

Since the founding of the United States, women have picked up their pens to write and express their ideas, affording them independence and self-...