Prose: Non-Fiction

Why would a Latin Qur'an be addressed to readers who knew no Latin? What happens when translators work on paper rather than parchment? Why would a ...

In this memoir, a child's recollections of her family and warm home life are lovingly preserved in a front-porch ambience. Windham, who frequently ...

Liang Shih-chiu (1903–1987), a literary critic and theorist of many talents, was the first person to translate the complete works of Shakespeare in...

Matthew Arnold has long been recognized as the greatest of Victorian critics. In Communications with the Future, Donald Stone demonstrates Arnold's...

‘It seems that making art is chasing after an elusive dream of perfection that sits somewhere in my head. It will not go away, even after fifty yea...

In this volume, Marion Montgomery ponders two very different varieties of possum as the starting point for a literary, philosophical, and poetic in...

An accurate and comprehensive study of the political aspects of Fielding's art has been sorely needed. As a result of decades of work by literary s...

Hermann Langbein was allowed to know and see extraordinary things forbidden to other Auschwitz inmates. Interned at Auschwitz in 1942 and classifie...

Asia Booth Clarke's memoir is an indispensable resource for perceiving the complexities of her ill-fated brother. Indeed, as has been said, she ""t...

Mark Jarman, author of the narrative poem Iris and the lyric sequence Unholy Sonnets, is a poet associated with the revival of narrative and tradit...

A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book ...

When novelist Dinah Craik (1826–87) died, expressions of grief came from Lord Alfred Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, T.H. Huxley, and Ja...

A spy story like no other. Private spies are the invisible force that shapes our modern world: they influence our elections, effect government poli...

'This is a book that is surely about killers, but they don't take the spotlight. That belongs to the detectives who work the case, whose eyes are n...

'Woodward's story is one of the most important of recent years...heartbreakingly powerful' THE TIMES'Harrowing, brave, hugely important book' HENR...

An Open Access edition is available. The Visual Worlds of Life Writing brings into conversation the two most popular genres in long-eighteenth-cent...

One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests i...

The Chadian writer Nimrod—philosopher, poet, novelist, and essayist—is one of the most dynamic and vital voices in contemporary African literature ...

On the occasion of the inauguration of Cornell's thirteenth president, Elizabeth Garrett, Cornell University Press is pleased to publish the offici...

Plutarch's Cities is the first comprehensive attempt to assess the significance of the polis in Plutarch's works from several perspectives, namely ...

Cultural historians, literary scholars and linguists have been concerned with the question of how the world can be understood and represented in te...

This is a critical edition of John Fisher's Treatise on the Penitential Psalms, sermons delivered in 1507-1508 to the household of Lady Margaret Be...

Queer Men's Narrative demonstrates that at the heart of it, queer men and straight men are very much alike in how they respond to society's pressur...

As we celebrate the centennials of F. Scott Fitzgerald's works, this volume offers a timely new approach to the short stories of the Poet Laureate ...

Critical revised edition and translation by Jean Ward This book presents a universal theory of autobiography, defined as a "triangular" form of utt...

The book deals with what the author calls the new humanities: a broad and diversified front of orientations, directions, and turns grouped around f...

"[READING ECO is a timely indication] of the fruitfulness of perceiving Eco as the same in his metamorphoses. [It also testifies] to a certain pric...

Andrés Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United Sta...

This book offers new close readings of contemporary Irish drama in the context of postcolonial Biblical studies. Developing Christopher Morash’s hi...