Literary studies: general Books

This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and political society. In doing so, it...

This book demonstrates the legacies of Romanticism which animate the poetry and poetics of Eavan Boland, Gillian Clarke, John Burnside, and Kathleen Jamie. It argues that the English Romantic tradition serves as a source of inspiration and critical...

Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to...

Originally published in 1949, Gilbert Highet's seminal The Classical Tradition is a herculean feat of comparative literature and a landmark publication in the history of classical reception. As Highet states in the opening lines of his Preface, this...

Liber ""Emendationes In Suidam Et Hesychium V2: Et Alios Lexicographos Graecos (1790)"" auctore Toup, Jonathan, est opus quod emendationes continet in Suidam et Hesychium, duo lexica Graeca, ac alios lexicographos Graecos. Hoc opus in duas partes...

Commentatio De Comitiis Veterum Germanorum Antiquis est liber scriptus a Joanne Jacobo Sorbero anno MDCCXLV. In hoc libro, auctor tractat de comitiis antiquis Germanorum, quae erant consuetudines politicae et iuridicae in Germania antiqua. Sorberus...

Barnabae Epistula est liber qui integram Graece iterum edidit, auctore Hilgenfeld Adolpho. In hoc libro, veterem interpretationem Latinam, commentarium criticum et adnotationes continet. Opus anno MDCCCLXXVII editum est.This scarce antiquarian book is a...

Aristoteles Pseudepigraphus (1863) is a book in the English language by Aristoteles.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this...

De Zeden Der Wilden Van Amerika is een boek geschreven door Joseph-Francois La Fiteau in 1731. Het boek beschrijft de levenswijze en gebruiken van de inheemse volkeren van Noord-Amerika, zoals de Iroquois, Huron en Algonquin. La Fiteau beschrijft onder...

Le livre ""Abbr�����g����� de l'Histoire d'Angleterre, Partie 1: D'�����cosse et d'Irlande divis����� en trois parties"" de Duverdier, Gilbert Saulnier a �����t����� publi����� en 1679. Il s'agit d'un ouvrage historique qui traite de l'histoire de...

""Aristoteles Philosophie Der Kunst"" ist ein Buch des deutschen Philosophen Gustav Teichmuller aus dem Jahr 1869. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit der Philosophie des antiken griechischen Philosophen Aristoteles in Bezug auf Kunst und �����sthetik...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

""Aristoteles �����ber Kunst, besonders �����ber Trag������die"" (1870) von Joseph Hubert Reinkens ist eine umfassende Studie �����ber die aristotelische �����sthetik, insbesondere �����ber die Trag������die. Das Buch untersucht die verschiedenen...

""A Historical Account Of The Heathen Gods And Heroes, Necessary For The Understanding Of The Ancient Poets"" is a book written by William King and published in 1772. It is a comprehensive study of the mythology and legends surrounding the gods and...

The Anglo-Norman Poem On The Conquest Of Ireland By Henry The Second is a historical work written by Francisque Michel in 1837. The book is a translation of a medieval poem that describes the conquest of Ireland by King Henry II of England in the 12th...

Norman Maclean's "A River Runs Through It": The Search for Beauty is the first book-length study of Norman Maclean or any of his works. This study traces Maclean's revisions through four hand-written drafts and three typescripts, quoting extensive from...

Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth in Genesis A, Genesis B, and Beowulf, exploring the manner whereby the texts adapt biblical myth with reference to the Christian...

The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan considers the three key phases of Lacan's interest in literary topics.

This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with deep political, economic, and social implications for many ageing societies. As part of the increasing visibility of dementia in social...

Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature provides a new and wide-ranging appraisal of shame in colonial and postcolonial literature in English. Bringing together young and established voices in postcolonial studies, these essays tackle...

Whether a secularized morality, biblical worldview, or unstated set of mores, the Victorian period can and always will be distinguished from those before and after for its pervasive sense of the "proper way" of thinking, speaking, doing, and acting...

A Quest for Remembrance: The Underworld in Classical and Modern literature brings together a range of arguments exploring connections between the descent into the underworld, also known as katabasis, and various forms of memory. Its chapters investigate...

In Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction, David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accidents in twenty-first century British and American fiction, the phenomenology of reading, and a contemporary...

Transcending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm gathers an introduction and ten chapters concerned with the issue of Transmodernity as addressed by and presented in contemporary novels hailing from various...

This study explores the concept of Stimmung in literary and philosophical texts of the modern age. Signifying both 'mood' and 'attunement', Stimmung speaks to the categories of affective experience and aesthetic design alike. The study locates itself in...

Golden Age departures in historiography and theory of history in some ways prepared the ground for modern historical methods and ideas about historical factuality. At the same time, they fed into the period's own "aesthetic-historical culture" which...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This edited collection explores the importance of the Jews in the English Christian imagination of the 14th and 15th centuries - long after their expulsion from Britain in 1290.

Giordano Bruno's visit to Elizabethan England in the 1580s left its imprint on many fields of contemporary culture, ranging from the newly-developing science, the philosophy of knowledge and language, to the extraordinary flowering of Elizabethan poetry...

In this comparative and hybrid study, Reginald A. Wilburn offers the first scholarly work to theorize African American authors’ rebellious appropriations of Milton and his canon. Wilburn engages African Americans’ transatlantic negotiations...

""Genesis And Its Authorship: Two Dissertations"" is a book written by John Quarry in 1873. The book consists of two separate dissertations, both of which focus on the book of Genesis in the Bible. The first dissertation explores the authorship of...

Fo-Ka, Parties 1 et 2: Ou Les M�����tamorphoses, Conte Chinois (1777) de Baret, Paul est un livre qui raconte l'histoire de Fo-Ka, un jeune homme qui vit dans la Chine ancienne. Fo-Ka est un homme tr�����s ambitieux qui souhaite devenir riche et...

Fashionable Follies Volume 1, written by Thomas Vaughan and published in 1810, is a historical novel that follows the lives of a Parisian family during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The book also offers a glimpse into the English character. The...

Correspondance D�������Un Habitant De Paris Avec Ses Amis De Suisse Et D�������Angleterre (1791) est un livre �����crit par Fran�����ois-Louis Escherny. Il s'agit d'une collection de lettres �����chang�����es entre un habitant de Paris et ses amis en...

Libri quinque Consolationis Philosophiae Anicii Manlii Severini Boetii sunt opus magnum quod auctore Boethio scriptum est. In hoc libro, Boethius, qui erat senator Romanus, de tristitia et dolore loquitur. Consolationis Philosophiae est tractatus de...

La Collection D'Anciens Evangiles: Ou Monumens Du Premier Siecle Du Christianisme, Extraits De Fabricius, Grabius Et Autres Savans (1769) de Voltaire est un livre qui rassemble des extraits d'�����vangiles anciens du premier si�����cle du christianisme...

Cicero's Cato Major et Laelius: cum notis criticis et philologicis (1818) est opus quod continet duos dialogos Ciceronis, Cato Maiorem et Laelium. In Cato Maiore, Cato senex disputat cum Scipione Africano de virtute, senectute et morte. In Laelio,...

Christian Songs, Translations, And Other Poems is a collection of poems written by James Gilborne Lyons and published in 1861. The book includes a variety of religious poems, including hymns and translations of Latin hymns. Additionally, the collection...

Christ and Antichrist is a poem written by an anonymous author who identifies himself only as ""A Layman."" The poem is divided into seven cantos and was first published in 1840. The work is a religious allegory that tells the story of the struggle...

Ceres and Persephone, A Child Play: With The Hymn To Demeter (1902) is a play written by Maud Menefee. The play is based on the Greek myth of Ceres and Persephone, in which Persephone, the daughter of Ceres, is abducted by Hades and taken to the...

""Celtic Manuscript In Relation To The Macpherson Fraud: With A Review Of Professor Freeman�������s Criticism Of The Viking Age"" is a scholarly work by James Cruikshank Roger, published in 1890. The book explores the relationship between Celtic...

Bibliothecae Sanskritae Sive Recensus Librorum Sanskritorum Hucusque Typis Vel Lapide Exscriptorum Critici Specimen est opus Ioannis Gildemeister, quod anno MDCCCXLVII editum est. In hoc libro, auctor recenset libros Sanskritos, qui usque ad tempora sua...