Literature

With its dominance as a European power and the explosion of its prose and dramatic writing, Spain provided an irresistible literary source for Engl...

In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remai...

Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics - ancient, medieval, or modern - the most important is indisputably Aristotle's Poetics, the first phi...

The founder of modern linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure inaugurated semiology, structuralism, and deconstruction and made possible the work of Jac...

Between 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, millions of nude photographs of the female form—artistic, pornographic, and everything in-betwe...

Despite the great literary achievements of Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl Poet, Ricardian English books were still a niche market in 1400. As Kat...

How beliefs about human and divine secrets informed medieval ideas about the mind and shaped the practices of literary interpretations What did it ...

Richard Stonley has all but vanished from history, but to his contemporaries he would have been an enviable figure. A clerk of the Exchequer for mo...

Like other compilations of medieval urban drama, the plays that were performed in the streets of York on the Feast of Corpus Christi from the late ...

Race, in the early modern period, is a concept at the crossroads of a set of overlapping concerns of lineage, religion, and nation. In Bad Humor, K...

In Won in Translation Roger Chartier, one of the world's leading historians of books, publishing, and reading, considers the mobility of the early ...

In the years between the independence of the colonies from Britain and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous numbe...

Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, "humanity" is an elusive category i...

Of all the cultural "revolutions" brought about by the development of printing technology during the sixteenth century, perhaps the most remarkable...

The usefulness of time and place as defining categories would seem to be baked into the very notion of nineteenth-century American literary studies...