Literature

What's a free telephone, when there are no private words?Moscow, now. A small flat. One family, three generations, the same hangover. Life after co...

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 19261929, featuring many previously unpublished letters, follows a rising star as he emerges from the li...

Competing representations of the former East German state in the German cultural memory. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the conse...

An Open Letters Review Best Book of the YearAngelo Poliziano (14541494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance and the leadi...

Invectives against Antony.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more tha...

Invectives against Antony.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more t...

Este libro ofrece la primera revisión en forma de volumen monográfico de las transferencias culturales de Gran Bretaña a España en el siglo XVIII. ...

The first book to offer a cutting-edge discussion of contemporary travel writing in German, Anxious Journeys looks both at classical tropes of trav...

Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. Delivers some fascinat...

The definitive English edition of the Father of Medicine.This is the tenth volume in the Loeb Classical Librarys ongoing edition of Hippocrates inv...

An investigation into two important Saints Lives provides a window into the Anglo-Saxon perception of the non-human world. The question of the rel...

Oratory and philosophy from a Latin novelist.Apuleius, one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was born ca. AD 125 in Madauros to a politica...

AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY was established at a time of uncertainty and reconstruction but for 50 years it has played a leading role in nurturing ima...

Combines an overview of academic approaches to life writing with case studies from crucial periods of twentieth-century German history. Life writi...

This first book-length study of Pound criticism investigates not just what critics have had to say about Pound but also why they have asked the que...

Edited volume tracing the development of a new generation of German Jewish writers, offering fresh interpretations of individual works, and probing...

Examination of texts concerning the vikings reveals much about their origin myth and legend. Viking settlers and their descendants inhabited both ...

First full-length investigation of Elizabethan and Jacobean genealogy, showing how it could be manipulated to legitimise - and oppose. Shakespeare...

Sixty-fifth annual volume, focusing notably on Shakespearean drama and the poetry of early modern England but with essays on a variety of other top...

In this timely, assured collection, Tina Chang confronts the complexities of raising a mixed-race child during an era of political upheaval in the ...

Nigel Bryant's is the first translation of an example of the many medieval romances about Alexander, as popular in their day as those about Arthur....