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This encyclopedia on early modern women’s writing from the English Reformation to the Restoration focuses on writing by ......more
As book historians will attest, students are usually surprised to learn that a book s container can matter deeply when i......more
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The Ring and the Book, published serially in 1868-9, is one of the most daring and innovative poems in the English langu......more
The body in dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the fantastic as expressions of human corporeality. In The Body Fan......more
Engagements with Graphic Literature introduces readers to the long and multicultural history of the field as well as cov......more
Engagements with Graphic Literature introduces readers to the long and multicultural history of the field as well as cov......more
The topic of Latino/a Literature is not as easily identifiable as it may seem. The definition itself of Latino can chang......more
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In this first full-length study of Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, the first sonnet sequence to be written and published by a......more
John Gay was a dramatist and poet, best-known for writing The Beggar’s Opera. Through his membership of the Scriblerus C......more
As the lead poem in Christina Rossetti’s first collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems, "Goblin Market" stands both hi......more
Women and the Poetics of Dissent in the English Revolution examines the aesthetic dimensions of female sectarian culture......more
Focusing on social types during the July Monarchy, Pauline de Tholozany argues that they played a role in the constructi......more
One writer, Mary Shelley, inaugurated two of the three paradigms through which human beings imagine, with panic or pleas......more
The full texts of both 1680 editions of Elizabeth Cary s History of Edward II are here reproduced completely, along with......more
Positioning Henry James within his transatlantic and pan-European contexts, Peter Rawlings relocates James and the New C......more
Golden Age Spanish on the Jacobean Stage challenges the received wisdom that, although Fletcher, Massinger, and other Ja......more
In their lively invocation of a feminist dramaturgy that can lead to innovative and challenging directions in modern the......more
From the French Revolution, Reign of Terror, and Napoleonic Wars abroad to the dramatic social changes wrought by indust......more
Although several Irish writers produced crime novels before 2000, most of these books were set outside Ireland and broug......more
Faced with a rapidly changing world, modernist authors turned their attention to the mundane details of everyday life, s......more
In their provocative examination of Anthony Trollope s novels, Margaret Markwick and Deborah Denenholz Morse, two leadin......more
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Originally published in 1981 Ernest Hemingway is a collection of papers from the Hemingway Collection conference of 1980......more
Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities provides a critical resource for understanding and debating the interdisc......more
Angels, demons, and demigods are ubiquitous in popular culture, functioning as protagonists, antagonists, and amused com......more
By Hand investigates the persistent absence of female hands from the story of the human hand. Mediating between mind and......more
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major poets of the English Romantic period. This is the final volume of ......more
In these essays, Alexander Nehamas rejects the separation of art from life, which was institutionalized in the eighteent......more
Written for an audience that has witnessed the election of Barack Obama, the debt anxieties of the Great Recession, and ......more
Magical Realism is the essential introduction to this often complex area and guides students through the use and origins......more
Magical Realism is the essential introduction to this often complex area and guides students through the use and origins......more
Focusing on prominent accounts by 10 distinguished women writers, who travelled to the Ottoman Empire (in particular, to......more
This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to e......more
Byron concealed himself in various literary disguises, a process he called "mobility." In this study of influences on By......more
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The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the cu......more
As this lively new study effectively demonstrates, dictionaries serve as far more than just simple reference tools-they ......more
In this open access book, Reham Hosny explores and reflects on the idiosyncrasies of Arabic electronic literature (e-lit......more
This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. These dark and sinist......more
Ralph Ellison and Cinema reveals the crucial role of cinema throughout Ellison’s career. In his most famous work, Invisi......more
This scholarly monograph synthesises critical understandings of collective social trauma and the Gothic’s discursive man......more
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Anthony Trollope is among the best-loved novelists in the English ......more
An homage to the childhood genius of Black science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. Bringing to view a selection of But......more
Many beloved classics of children’s literature, including Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and The Tale of P......more
This volume starts from a reconsideration of the idea that ancient perceptions of the non-human world rested on the prof......more
The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century offers new perspectives on contemporar......more
This volume offers the first annotated English translation of the first two books of On Celibacy (1473) by the eminent V......more
This book offers the first annotated translation into English of two works of the eminent Venetian humanist, Ermolao Bar......more
’This travel book is truly a labyrinth--or, more precisely, a piece of the labyrinth that it has been my fate to wander,......more
The Handbook offers the first systematic overview of key transformations of Modern Languages Studies (MLS) in the presen......more
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What can psychologists and psychotherapists learn from the world of literature? Novel Connections explores the relations......more
Examining the challenges faced by novelists writing realist fiction in the age of climate change, this open access book ......more
What is the contemporary cultural legacy of Byzantium or The Eastern Roman Empire? This book explores the varied recepti......more
Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in w......more
J. M. Coetzee - novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2003) - is widely recognized ......more
Translation is commonly understood as the rendering of a text from one language to another - a border-crossing activity,......more
In the tumultuous decades of rapid expansion and change between the American Founding and the Civil War, Americans confr......more
What is beauty? What is the soul? What facilitates our apprehension of beauty in ourselves, others, and the world, and w......more
The Nazis and their collaborators buried over 100,000 victims at Babyn Yar, a ravine in modern-day Ukraine. Most of the ......more