Literary studies: general Books

The collection brings together experts in the field of twentieth-century writing to provide a volume that is both comprehensive and innovative in its discussion of a set of newly canonical texts. The book includes new applications of philosophical and...

The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature' explores why Victorian sensation fiction was derided as literature fit only for maids and cooks and how the depictions of fictional female domestics, from Jane Eyre to Neo-Victorian novels,...

Scholarly interest in 'the Irish Gothic' has grown at a rapid pace in recent years, but the debate over exactly what constitutes this body of literature remains far from settled. This collection of essays explores the rich complexities of the literary...

The lyric poems of Horace and Housman are two enigmatic bodies of work that have much in common, and a close reading of each poet's writings can illuminate the other's. This is the first book to provide a detailed, critical comparison between these two...

Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature examines the popular literary stereotype, the tragic mulatto, from a transnational perspective. Mafe considers the ways in which specific South African and American writers have used this...

In The Plausible World , the intersections of literature and cartography enable readers to understand that place is anything but purely geographic: a plausible world is created as a strategy to fill the void. Innovative in his approach, Westphal...

This book takes a fresh look at childhood in Dickens' works and in Victorian science and culture more generally. It offers a new way of understanding Dickens' interest in childhood by showing how his fascination with new scientific ideas about childhood...

Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence proposes a striking approach for reading the influences that interlace twentieth-century gay British writers. Focusing on the role of the textual image in literary influence, this book moves toward a new...

Examining Malory's political language, this study offers a revisionary view of Arthur's kingship in the Morte Darthur and the role of the Round Table fellowship. Considering a range of historical and political sources, Lexton suggests that Malory used a...

This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how...

Examining a range of Coleridge's writings, this book uses recent scientific research to understand how we have evolved to make mental representations of the counterfactual, how such transformative essays in Imagination have enabled humans to survive, to...

In this complete, unabridged edition of H.D.'s visionary memoir, The Gift, Jane Augustine makes available for the first time the text as H.D. wrote it and intended it to be read, including H.D.’s coda to the book, her "Notes," never before...

Taking an original approach, Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities: Literary and Artistic Voices that undo the Lusophone Atlantic explores a selected body of cultural works from Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone Africa. Contributors from...

This authoritative text of the first edition of John Milton’s Paradise Lost transcribes the original 10-book poem, records its textual problems and numerous differences from the second edition, and discusses in critical commentary the importance of...

Examines the ghost stories of writer and academic Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936). Focuses on the intersection between his scholarly work and his fiction, arguing that his two careers are intriguingly intertwined.

Randall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century's leading American men of letters. Although he saw himself chiefly as a poet, publishing a number of books...

The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives," that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical...

Investigates how British fiction and film use dangerous and endangered children to explore conflicts over the future, from the Thatcher to Brexit eras.This book stems from a simple yet disturbing observation: contemporary British fiction is full of...

Explores Victorian writers' conception of the novel's potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.Is the novel a category of knowledge that merits serious study? Even if the novel has shed the stigma of...

This book is an exploration of the internal world of James Joyce with particular emphasis on his being born into his parents' grief at the loss of their firstborn son, offering a new perspective on his emotional difficulties. The book will be of interest...

The main objective of this book is to explain how contemporary literatures in Spanish and Portuguese are dealing with artistic creativity when artmaking is no longer a specialised field of cultural production, but rather an expanded field of...

Aldous Huxley is one of the most well-known modernist intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century - a proper study of Huxley's characterization in his novels opens up a veritable treasure-house of history, philosophy, psychology, and...

Erich Auerbach was a Jewish refugee who in exile in Istanbul during WWII wrote one of the major works of 20th Century literary criticism. This book explores the major themes of his life's work, relates that work to his own life history, and explains his...

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...

Thomas Dekker (c.1572-1632) was a prolific playwright and pamphleteer chiefly remembered for his vivid and witty portrayals of everyday London life. This book uses Dekker's prose pamphlets (published between 1613 and 1628) as a way in to a crucial and...

Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as academic disciplines such as medicine and rhetoric. Demonstrates how early modern practices of knowledge and...

In The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena, Konrad Eisenbichler analyzes the work of Sienese women poets, in particular, Aurelia Petrucci, Laudomia Forteguerri, and Virginia Salvi, during the first half of the...

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go...

De Arte Metrica Commodiani est liber auctore Friderico Hanssen editus anno MDCCCLXXXI. In hoc libro, auctor tractat de arte metrica, quae est disciplina quae versatur circa mensuram et numerum in versibus. Commodianus, poeta Christianus saeculi tertii,...

Libellus ""De Aristotelis Politicorum Libris: Dissertatio"" a Ioanne Petro Nickes anno MDCCCLI editus est, qui Aristotelis opus ""Politica"" tractat. In hoc opere, auctor quaestiones varias exponit et analysat, quae ad politicae scientiae fundamenta...

De libro ""De Apuleio Isiacorum Mysteriorum Teste"" auctore Karel Hendrik Eduard De Jong, anno MCM publicato, tractatur de Apuleii Asclepiadeae de Mysteriorum Isidis sacrorum testimoniis. In hoc opere, auctor diversas fontes, inter quas etiam Apuleii...

Liber ""De Aristotelis Rhetoricis Et Ethicis Nicomacheis: Et In Quo Et Cur Inter Se Quum Congruant Tum Differant"" auctore Kalischer, Salomon, anno MDCCCLXIX editus est. In hoc libro, auctor Aristotelis opera ""Rhetorica"" et ""Ethica Nicomachea""...

De Apocriefe Boeken Des Ouden Verbonds is een boek geschreven door Johannes Dyserinck en uitgegeven in 1874. Het boek bevat de apocriefe boeken van het Oude Testament, die niet zijn opgenomen in de protestantse bijbel. Deze boeken zijn onder meer de...

De Amicitia Apud Aristotelem est liber auctore Krantz, Emile, anno MDCCCLXXXII editus. In hoc libro, Krantz Aristotelis doctrinam de amicitia explicat et interpretatur. Aristoteles amicitiam non solum ut bonum per seipsum sed etiam ut instrumentum ad...

De Aeschinis Oratoris Vita est liber a Ewaldus Stechow scriptus anno MDCCCXLI. In hoc libro, Stechow narrat vitam Aeschinis, oratoris Graeci qui vixit in saeculo IV a.C. Aeschinis fuit discipulus Isocratis, et inter alia, contendit contra Demosthenem in...

Das Zweite Buch der aristotelischen Schrift �����ber die Seele: In kritischer �����bersetzung (1894) von Ernst Essen ist eine kritische �����bersetzung des zweiten Buches von Aristoteles' Werk De Anima, das sich mit der menschlichen Seele und deren...

De Abstrusis Sermonibus: Expositio Sermonum Antiquorum (1844) ist ein Buch von Fulgentius, Fabius Planciades. Das Buch ist eine Sammlung von antiken Reden und ihre Interpretationen. Fulgentius, Fabius Planciades, ein r������mischer Gelehrter des 4...

Das Buch ""Das Wesen der Senta in Richard Wagners Dichtung: Der Fliegende Holl�����nder"" von Edmund von Hagen aus dem Jahr 1880 besch�����ftigt sich mit der Figur der Senta in Wagners ber�����hmter Oper. Der Autor analysiert die psychologischen und...

Das Buch ""Das Verh�����ltnis der Handschriften des Altfranz������sischen Gregorius (1886)"" von Wilhelm Miehle besch�����ftigt sich mit der Analyse und Vergleichung verschiedener Handschriften des altfranz������sischen Textes ""Gregorius"". Der Autor...