Literary studies: general Books

Preface - Critical Introduction - Textual Introduction - Editorial Symbols - Literary Notes 1 - Notes - Index

List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Editorial Procedures - A Note on the Illustrations - THE LIFE AND WORK OF THOMAS HARDY - Early Life and Architecture - Novels to Illness - Illness, Novels and Italy - Between Town and Country -...

Bringing together eight original essays from leading and emerging Miltonists, this volume explores a second wave of critical thought about Milton’s monist materialism, the view that all existence arises from a single substance or reality...

The Poetry of the Americas offers a lively and detailed history of relations among poets in the US and Latin America, spanning three decades from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II through the Cold War cultural policies of the late 1960s...

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; W.S.Jacobson Spirit and the Allegorical Child: Little Nell's Mortal Aesthetic; J.Bowen Dickens and the Construction of the Child; J.Kincaid Suppressing Narratives: Childhood ad Empire in The...

Acknowledgements Introduction Women's Ways of Writing Wars and Rumours of Wars Marginalities of Race and Class Men, Women, Sex and Gender Women in a Changing Society: Conclusion Primary Sources Select Bibliography Index

Acknowledgements Introduction Problems of Historiography The Advancement of Learning The Inward Turn: Wallace and Clifford Cultural Diversity and Originary Identity: Almayer's Folly and An Outcast of the Islands Encountering the Other: Race and Gender in...

Acknowledgements Yeats: Influence, Tradition, and the Problematics of Reading 'The Terror of His Vision': Yeats and Irish Poetry Inevitable Abstractions: Yeats and British Poetry Possession and Dispossession: Yeats and American Poetry Select Bibliography...

Introduction Edgar Allen Poe: The Domain of Artifice Van Gogh and Hofmannsthal: Colours and Silence Baudelaire, Haussmann, Fustel de Coulanges: The Modern Metropolis and the Ancient City Trieste as Frontier: From Slataper to Del Giudice and Bazlen Also...

This volume examines a wide variety of the ways in which the fantastic has impacted upon contemporary women's fiction. The study is based upon the work of fifteen different writers and includes novels by Allende, Atwood, Carter, Head, Morrison, Weldon,...

Preface: Renaissance Configurations; G. McMullan PART I: TURNING THE KEY 'Infinite Riches in a Little Room': Marlowe and the Aesthetics of the Closet; J. Knowles Shakespeare 'Creepes into the Women's Closets about Bedtime': Women Reading in a Room of...

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Welsh Myth in Fiction: A Place of the Mind and the Spirit - Welsh Myth and the Sense of Belonging - Eternal Triangles and the Cycles of Myth - Reconstructing the Present for the Stories of the Past - Children from...

Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction: Women and Progress Times and Seasons The Romance of Sexual Science and the Making of Modern Feminism Capturing the Ideal: New Men and Women in From Man to Man Love, Death and Money in Mashonaland War Stories...

The Ocean of Mirth brings together an English translation and an analytical interpretation of a singularly crucial, but obscure, Sanskrit medieval text, the Hāsyārṇava-Prahasanaṁ of Jagadēśvara Bhaṭṭāchārya. As a political satire, the volume finds...

Cultural Politics in Harry Potter: Life, Death and the Politics of Fear is the first book-length analysis of topics, such as death, fear and biopolitics in J.K. Rowling's work from controversial and interdisciplinary perspectives. This collection brings...

Originally published in 1974. The thirty-six essays of this book were written and assembled in hour of an internationally recognised scholar of medieval literature. Written by a diverse range of contributors, the chapters cover not only various studies...

Acknowledgements Key to Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction: Radical Blake Visionary Blake Metropolitan Blake Blake and Nationalism Blake, Emancipation and America Blake and Women Blake and Blasphemy Hacking Blake Conclusion Notes...

This collection features the work of both established and up-and-coming scholars in the UK and US, with contributors including Peter Goodrich, Lorna Hutson, Erica Sheen and David Colclough studying the period of the English Renaissance from the 1520s to...

Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton assembles a collection of essays on the compelling topic of death in two monumental representatives of the early modern canon, Edmund Spenser and John Milton. The volume draws its impetus from the conviction that...

A Note of Texts and Abbreviations Preface Introduction The 'strif of Thebes': Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer The Twin Necessity of Troilus and Criseyde The 'confusion of gentil wemen': Antiquity and the Short Side of History The 'Cherles Tale' and...