Literature: History & Criticism

This pioneering exploration shows that in the early modern world, printed works on morality and ethics served as an important conveyor of classic J...

This book examines Ian McEwan's ability to discern in his writing sentiments that easily resonate with musicians, explores the value of music in ex...

This book examines Ian McEwan's ability to discern in his writing sentiments that easily resonate with musicians, explores the value of music in ex...

Drawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Childrens Literature Studies, this book redirects critical conversations away from questions o...

This monograph aims to explore the mind-narrative nexus by conducting a cognitive narratological study on the mad minds in fictional narratives. Se...

This volume proposes a method for reading Milton's De Doctrina Christiana as an artifact of his process of theological thinking rather than as a re...

New and cutting-edge work in animality studies, human-animal studies, and posthumanismRepresentations of animality continue to proliferate in vario...

This book explores resistance as a widespread motif in medieval romance to consider themes of consent, gender, and desire. Medieval romance is us...

Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar Catherine Innes-Par...

Chloe Marr is young, beautiful and so irresistible that countless people fall in love with her, and friends are hypnotized by her charm and warmth....

Chloe Marr is young, beautiful and so irresistible that countless people fall in love with her, and friends are hypnotized by her charm and warmth....

Shakespeare was not only aware of the socio-cultural fears and anxieties generated by the older womans body but with the characterization of his tr...

This book makes newly visible the sustained engagement of the English and the Dutch throughout a critical century in their cultural and national de...

This book makes newly visible the sustained engagement of the English and the Dutch throughout a critical century in their cultural and national de...

John McGahern (19342006) believed that fiction could act as a window on the world. Such windows, however, frame our fields of vision, alter and sha...

How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde poetics and many other kindred arts. This insightful, playful monograph from Golsto...

How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde poetics and many other kindred arts. This insightful, playful monograph from Golsto...