Literary studies: general Books

The Ormulum is a Middle English poem of great significance to both linguists and historians. This edition, edited by Robert Holt and Robert Meadows White, provides extensive commentary and a helpful glossary to aid in the understanding of this complex...

Este livro apresenta o quinto livro da maior obra épica da literatura romana, a Eneida. Com um comentário detalhado e minucioso de Robert Deryck Williams, um dos maiores especialistas na obra de Virgílio, este livro é uma leitura indispensável para todos...

This book is a critical edition of Cicero's famous oration in defense of Publius Sestius, a Roman politician who was accused of sedition. It is an invaluable resource for scholars of ancient history, classics, and rhetoric, providing a meticulous...

This book examines the structure and usage of personal names in Old English that are not made up of more than one word. Through a comprehensive analysis of various sources, including legal documents, charters, and literary works, Redin sheds light on the...

First published in 1872, this edition of Persius' satires features a translation and extensive commentary by the classicist John Conington, as well as a lecture on the life and works of the Roman poet by Henry Nettleship. The satires, which offer biting...

This book is a survey of the critical reception of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, the great poet of medieval England. The book covers a period of five hundred years, from the first references to Chaucer's works in the 14th century to the end of the 19th...

This book provides a comprehensive look at the impact of the Scandinavian language on Middle English. Björkman examines the origins and meanings of numerous loan-words from Old Norse and Old Danish that are found in Middle English texts. This is an...

Les Nuits Attiques est un ouvrage de l'écrivain romain Aulus Gellius, qui relate ses conversations nocturnes avec des amis à Athènes. Cette édition bilingue latin-français, traduite par Victor Verger, contient des notes et des commentaires...

Laugh out loud with this fascinating exploration of Aristophanic comedy. Charles William Peppler delves into the linguistic and cultural background of comedic devices used by the ancient playwright, with a focus on diminutives, character names, and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This volume of 13 original interdisciplinary essays surveys the relationship of Victorian works and the urban experience that shaped them. Each essay addresses how the selection or rejection of an urban setting provide the context for a representative...

"A wide-ranging collection that allows the mask-as artifact, metaphor, theatrical costume, fetish, strategy for self-concealment, and treasured cultural object-to clarify modernity's relationship to history."--Carrie J. Preston, author of Modernism's...

Worship Through Novels is a book that digs for gems in the desert. It is a unique attempt to find Biblical lessons from the characters, dialogues, events and plots of many well-known novels and apply them to the Christian life.It is by no means easy to...

This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire. The self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to 'legitimate' and 'traditional' forms of...

Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the fifteen original essays in this collection demonstrate that the quest for love in the world of medieval courtly literature was underpinned by violence. Lovers were...

Eustache Deschamps studied under the tutelage of Guillaume de Marchault, traveled in Syria, Palestine, and Egypt-where he was said to have been made a slave-and eventually become recognized as one of the great French medieval poets. He was the first...

Situating contemporary critical praxis at the intersection of the social, the political, and the rhetorical, this book is a provocative inquiry into the teaching philosophies of Plato's Socrates and Paulo Freire that has profound implications for...

This collection analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 18th century. Taking Chaucer's influential Middle English works as the starting point, the original essays in this volume explore diverse aspects...

Awarded a 2014 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Prize Honourable Mention.This book explores the creation and use of artificially made humanoid servants and servant networks by fictional and non-fictional scientists of the early modern period...

Music in Ancient Greece and Rome provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Hadrian, presented in a concise and user-friendly way. Chapters include: * contexts in which music played a role * a...

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Tantalizing Portions: Serialized Sensation Novels and Family Magazines Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White in All The Year Round Ellen Wood's East Lynne in the New Monthly Magazine Charles Dickens's Great...

Preface - Chronology - Introduction - List of Letters - List of Repositories - The Letters - Further Reading - Index

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Female Trouble: Nineteenth-Century Feminism and a Literature of Threat - PART 1: THE 1840s - 'Betsy Prig...try the cowcumbers, God Bless You!': Hierarchy, Transgression, and Trouble in Martin Chuzzlewit - Reading Tennyson...

This book maps out the shaping power of English Renaissance literature in creating and contesting national and colonial identities through the work of major authors including Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton. Informed throughout by the burgeoning fields...