From the very beginning James Joyce’s readers have considered him as a Catholic or an anti-Catholic writer, and in recen......more

Examines aspects of figured bass notation and continuo realization in the High Baroque, especially with respect to the o......more

Unearthing Franco’s Legacy: Mass Graves and the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain addresses the political, cultural......more

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Taking her title from the British term for legal study, to read for the law, Christine L. Krueger asks how reading fo......more

This study examines how postcolonial landscapes and environmental issues are represented in fiction. Wright creates a pr......more

Der Band vereinigt Studien der letzten 20 Jahre zu deutschen und lateinischen Texten aus Mittelalter und Fr her Neuzeit.......more

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The author treats, in historical and philosophical terms, the contributions of the traditionally marginalized genre of d......more

Examining the ways in which hypochondria forms both a malady and a metaphor for a range of British Romantic writers, Gri......more

Taboo and Transgression in British Literature from the Renaissance to the Present develops an innovative overview of the......more

Published in London only months after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, Irish Tales is an historical romance offering a Ja......more

Der Band enth lt 41 Beitr ge, die im August 2005 beim 40. Linguistischen Kolloquium an der P dagogischen Universit t der......more

Leading authors in the field of early modern studies explore a range of bad behaviours - like binge drinking, dicing, an......more

A Companion to Medieval Poetry presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore English ......more

Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas’s notion of "the Other." In literary ......more

Das vorliegende Buch rekonstruiert und analysiert als erste Studie dieser Art Anna Seghers Begegnung mit den Chinesen, ......more

George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis gave the Modern Greek language a substantial corpus of translations from poets workin......more

Literature and theology have long been conversation partners. The great themes of human existence form the subject matte......more

This book examines writing in the Gothic mode which subverts the dominant national narrative of the British home front. ......more

In the half century before Walter Scott s Waverley, dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circula......more

Beginning with a widespread definition of Decadence as when individual parts flourish at the expense of the whole, Regen......more

When it was first published, Radical Tragedy was hailed as a groundbreaking reassessment of the drama of Shakespeare and......more

When it was first published, Radical Tragedy was hailed as a groundbreaking reassessment of the drama of Shakespeare and......more

In the half century before Walter Scott’s Waverley, dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circula......more

"A beautifully researched study of how the Victorian Penny Post altered human relations. As Golden eloquently documents,......more

This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and soci......more

Building on the strength of Keith Walker s acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar......more

Featuring new research by established and emerging critics in the field, this stimulating academic journal aims to engag......more

Madeleine Gagnon has published over 40 books of poetry and prose in Quebec and France. In Stone Dream Gagnon takes us ......more

Scholars and readers who are interested in eighteenth-century British literature are surely familiar with Hester Lynch T......more

Examining ideas of belonging and being an outsider, this story follows Billy, a young school teacher and drifter who arr......more

What does literature reveal about a country’s changing cultural identity? In History, Violence, and the Hyperreal by Kat......more

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This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britai......more

To commemorate the tercentenary of the birth of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), whose influence on his time was as monumenta......more

This is an original, full length biography of Britain’s first twentieth-century black feminist - Una Marson - poet, play......more

This book is a comprehensive study of the nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine. Anthony Phelan examines the com......more

This interdisciplinary study explores images of Jews and Judaism in late medieval English literature and culture. Using ......more

The word is all over Austen’s novels: what ought to be done, what one ought to say, how one ought to feel (versus how on......more

While film scholars and enthusiasts all over the world are familiar with Federico Fellini s important contributions to p......more

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Latin American women have long written essays on topics ranging from gender identity and the female experience to social......more

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Proust s A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) is many things at once: a novel of education, a portra......more

Proust s A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) is many things at once: a novel of education, a portrai......more

This study investigates the function of the radio play as medium of cultural memory, based on the memories of the holoca......more

Ideal for students of modern Latin American literature, Journeys of Formation: The Spanish American ’Bildungsroman’ offe......more

The Story of Merlin depicts the role of the seer Merlin in the conception and birth of Arthur, who is to rescue Britain ......more

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Virginia Woolf s writing has generated passion and controversy for the best part of a century. Her novels - challenging,......more

Virginia Woolf s writing has generated passion and controversy for the best part of a century. Her novels - challenging,......more

The late medieval Church obliged all Christians to rebuke the sins of others, especially those who had power to discipli......more

Beckett and Ireland is a volume of essays devoted exclusively to the topic of Beckett s vexed relationship with his home......more

AlthoughThe History of the Holy Grail opens the Vulgate Cycle, it was added after the events described in Lancelot and T......more

The volume deals with the constitution of language and identity in literary texts written in the diaspora. The cultural ......more

Lancelot is the central romance of the Vulgate Cycle, in which the chivalric elements in Arthur’s court come to the fore......more

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Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains his most scathin......more

A dual-language annotated edition of Samuel Beckett s translations of Italian literature (Comisso, Franchi and Montale)....more

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Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies, but no ......more

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Literature happens in the mind. Literary texts are the product of an intentional mind addressing another mind, and langu......more

Eighteenth-century England did not only see the rise of the novel, but also the rise of genres of what we now call the f......more

Commentary on Don Quixote is as universal as affirmations of the novel s importance, yet until now no study has examined......more

Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period maps the intellectual formation of English plebeian r......more