Written in 1832 but only published in 1836, after Hogg s death, this was the culmination of Hogg s lifetime interest in ......more

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This edited collection is the first critical collection on the author in English and it approaches the breadth and depth......more

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William Harrison Ainsworth was a best-selling 19th-century historical novelist whose tales of highwaymen captivated read......more

Pope’s War with the Dunces: Mapping the Public in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain examines Alexander Pope’s Dunciad, a ......more

My Cue to Fight is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth examination of how the greatest playwright in the E......more

A critical edition of Guglielmo Sirleto’s unpublished letters is still missing. The partial transcriptions of this large......more

The story of German gothic literature is that of the meteoric rise of a popular literary style that critics nonetheless ......more

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A critical deep-drive into conceptions of power and society in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, this book brings toge......more

Establishing mid-20th-century queer fiction as both text and book object made up of crucial para-textual elements, this ......more

’I have no secrets; my unhappiness is the story of my entire life.’ A key figure in the literary world of post-Revolutio......more

In the medieval and early modern periods, dreams were seen as having the potential to grant a glimpse of what was unknow......more

The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies......more

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A wide-ranging, future-focused study from a variety of cultural and academic perspectives, this illustrated book brings ......more

’the metamorphosis of Monsieur de Charlus into a new person was so complete that... everything which had appeared incohe......more

Lively, adventurous and comprehensive, this book offers a fascinating account of the contemporary culture of pedestriani......more

The archive of Romantic studies is every day expanding far beyond its Anglo-European confines, incorporating an ever-vol......more

The archive of Romantic studies is every day expanding far beyond its Anglo-European confines, incorporating an ever-vol......more

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William Blake was an English poet, painter, and visual artist early within the Romantic movement. Although both his text......more

In the 19th century, an era that saw a reconfiguration of the relationship between the self, the world and the divine, w......more

An exploration of the serialization of children’s classics by contemporary publishers, this book digs into the impact of......more

Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote abou......more

Can you commit treason by "mere words"? "Do civilized peoples shoot their poets?" Are there limits to free expression? G......more

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This encyclopedia on early modern women’s writing from the English Reformation to the Restoration focuses on writing by ......more

How the seventeenth-century translations of notoriously obscene tales by Rabelais shaped some of the great works of eigh......more

The Enduring Work of Biography seeks to revitalize appreciation of Boswell’s great biography for a new generation of sch......more

The Enduring Work of Biography seeks to revitalize appreciation of Boswell’s great biography for a new generation of sch......more

Ornamental verses abound in Romantic-era commonplace books, albums, epitaphs, pamphlets, personal and commercial antholo......more

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: Celebrate Annie Ernaux with this stunning collection of interviews, critical an......more

Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature explores literary representations of the human-animal encounter ......more

The handbook will be the first of its kind worldwide - and in contrast to, and clearly delimited from, The Routledge Com......more

The essays brought together in this book span the last quarter century of Cora Kaplan’s imaginative thinking and writing......more

In this book, Michael Gardiner suggests that the conception of the ’war-ending’ weapon was tied up with a longer commitm......more

This book establishes the importance of W. T. Stead as a mediating force between British and American culture in the lat......more

In Paradise Lost the reciprocal forces of ’first matter’ are centrally located in ’Light Ethereal, first of things’, ’th......more

Literary Illusions explores the dialogue between Victorian literature and one of the nineteenth century’s most popular m......more

Performing Worlds considers the natural resources, landscapes and stagecraft that viewers might have seen in ballets for......more

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Exploring twentieth- and twenty-first century texts that wrestle with the Irish domestic interior as a sexualized and co......more

Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the......more

Providing a broad, definitive account of how the ’archival turn’ in humanities scholarship has shaped modernist studies,......more

With science fiction stories imagining futures and worlds vastly different from our own, and posthuman philosophies radi......more

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A new study of classic medieval Welsh stories through the lens of narrative repetition. The Mabinogion Set is a book abo......more

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In Romanticism’s Generative Reading, Susan Wolfson convenes an innovative array of subjects, texts, and cultural situati......more

The "virality" of diseases--their tendency to circulate simultaneously as biological and media phenomenon--is very famil......more

Medical Misinformation in Early Modern Germany examines how doctors, writers, and printers in sixteenth-century Germany ......more

Interiority in German Women’s Writing for the first time systematically gathers and engages with contributions of German......more

In the classroom, students training in medieval studies require fundamental soft skills to make sense of and use informa......more

This book traces the key stages in the cultural construction of Suzhou as ’the Venice of China, ’ through textual and vi......more

Synthesizes contemporary research on world literature while introducing Hungarian literature’s ’worldliness’ to an inter......more

A thought-provoking and timely analysis of the historical and conceptual development of the notion of apathy in Scandina......more

A groundbreaking volume that represents the first examination of cultural production amongst Italian prisoners of war. C......more

Time on the Brink of Impasse explores a pivotal decade in French cultural history through the lenses of literature, film......more

Time on the Brink of Impasse explores a pivotal decade in French cultural history through the lenses of literature, film......more

As deputy for Sarthe until August 1822, then deputy for Seine from February 1824, Constant has definitively established ......more

In this book, the authors bring to light an exciting range of previously unexplored material from feminist periodicals, ......more

French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, which ta......more

This book examines a wide sweep of prominent Black and Asian British poets, from Linton Kwesi Johnson and Jean ’Binta’ B......more

This collection demonstrates how, in early modern literary studies, close reading has its greatest force when we bring o......more

Alasdair Gray (1934-2019) is widely recognised as a key figure in Scottish literature and culture. His work reached a ne......more

Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018 studies narratives of Irish female and feminized development, arguing that......more