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This encyclopedia on early modern women’s writing from the English Reformation to the Restoration focuses on writing by ......more
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This book brings contemporary ways of reconceptualizing the human relationship to things into conversation with seventee......more
An exploration of the relationship between early modern travel literature and English nationalism, this book s primary g......more
It is the few, but brilliant, political writings of his English career - including the collection of five pamphlets feat......more
Dr Helen Beer is Lecturer in Yiddish.at UCL and Departmental Tutor. She is also Tutor in Yiddish at Oxford University De......more
In these essays, Alexander Nehamas rejects the separation of art from life, which was institutionalized in the eighteent......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
Modernism and Religion argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth cent......more
Ann Quin’s innovative, versatile oeuvre made a vital contribution to 1960s and ’70s British experimental writing. While ......more
A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial worl......more
Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronin’s acco......more
This book is a fresh, archivally nourished study of creative practice and exchange in theatre and the visual arts in eig......more
Many beloved classics of children’s literature, including Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and The Tale of P......more
As deputy for Sarthe until August 1822, then deputy for Seine from February 1824, Constant has definitively established ......more
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In the medieval and early modern periods, dreams were seen as having the potential to grant a glimpse of what was unknow......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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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE For fans new to Annie Ernaux and longtime readers, this collection of inter......more
Over a 60-year career, Graham Greene was a prolific writer. While his published works established him as one of the grea......more
The second volume of Old Norse Folklore explores medieval and early modern Nordic magic and witchcraft, covering syncret......more
The second volume of Old Norse Folklore explores medieval and early modern Nordic magic and witchcraft, covering syncret......more
Adorno’s Gamble offers a startling reinterpretation of the evolution of Adorno’s thought, usually seen as a mix of criti......more
Adorno’s Gamble offers a startling reinterpretation of the evolution of Adorno’s thought, usually seen as a mix of criti......more
The relationship between the made and the found is one of the most important themes in modern French literature. This co......more
Care is fundamental to human survival, yet it is often overlooked, undermined, undervalued, and thought of as ’women’s w......more
Renaissance humanism was a broad intellectual and cultural movement, which contributed significantly to the development ......more
Completing the wish of the late Alain Viala, this volume presents to readers the first collection of work published by t......more
What are the sources--and the effects--of the pleasurable feeling of power that genre gives us? What happens to that pow......more
A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In an......more
While globalization is often credited with the eradication of ’traditional’ constraints tied to gender and caste, in rea......more
Featuring readings of contemporary utopian poetry and fiction from authors such as Juliana Spahr, Mohsin Hamid, Bong Joo......more
The first comprehensive study of the works of William Hope Hodgson, one of the true innovators of Weird fiction, this bo......more
Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the......more
An exploration of the serialization of children’s classics by contemporary publishers, this book digs into the impact of......more
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In the early 1820s, the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle achieved a level of ......more
The first book to explore how Catalan literature has depicted the social and cultural consequences of immigration in the......more
A study of the creation of the historic county of Denbighshire in Wales. The lordship of Denbigh, held by prominent Engl......more
Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusi......more
Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusi......more
Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature explores literary representations of the human-animal encounter ......more
Is it enough to write in French to be recognized as a French writer? Or does the close link which exists between French ......more
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Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / Biography The first specifically academic companion to ......more
Verse quotation is intrinsic to the literary style of the medieval Icelandic corpus of Íslendingasögur (sagas of Iceland......more
At the end of ’Ode to a Nightingale’, Keats’s speaker famously asks of the foregoing reverie: ’Was it a vision, or a wak......more
What do we gain from watching a familiar play for the nth time? This was a crucial question for Romantic-period theatre ......more
With science fiction stories imagining futures and worlds vastly different from our own, and posthuman philosophies radi......more
Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in ex......more
How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry......more
A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary science The 120 years between Henry ......more
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Change is a matter of central concern and interest in the study of history, and it has been approached with various meth......more
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An accessible introduction to the life and work of the inventive Welsh poet. Dylan Thomas--author of some of the century......more
Investigating the representation of artefacts, objects and ’things’ in a range of predominantly Western archaeological f......more
Medieval and early modern literature was fascinated with the material remains of the past. Scenes involving the discover......more
A meditative reflection on what medieval disaster writing can teach us about how to respond to the climate emergency. Wh......more
A meditative reflection on what medieval disaster writing can teach us about how to respond to the climate emergency. Wh......more
This is the first book-length study of James Macpherson (1736-1796) that considers him as an historian. From his early p......more
Life Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Market begins from the premise that nineteenth-century life writing cir......more
Motherhood is a recurrent theme in Virginia Woolf’s writing yet Woolf scholarship has often overlooked this dynamic subj......more
This volume posits that clothing in the early modern period was conceived of as the prime interface between the human bo......more
What does it mean to read queerly? The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading upholds intersectional thinking to recognise......more
Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018 studies narratives of Irish female and feminized development, arguing that......more
Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature argues that Victorian literature uses traces of a lingering past to the......more
Dickens and Switzerland brings to light the many surprising connections between the country, which Dickens visited on se......more
Focusing on the work of two of the 20th-century’s most politically engaged poets - W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden - this bo......more
In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively ......more
Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away from......more
This collection of essays offers an image of Byron not only as a poet - for which he is best known - but as a translator......more
Official Voices: Poets and the Irish State examines the poet-politicians and bureaucrats who shaped the twenty-six-count......more
Despite many publications on Joseph Conrad’s Polishness (including those in some previous volumes of the series Conrad: ......more
There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profound silence about the......more
There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profound silence about the......more
An edited collection of essays, interviews, and book reviews by M. Wynn Thomas. For more than half a century, M. Wynn Th......more
A unique look at Thomas Mann’s intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the Un......more
This wide-ranging collection of contemporary scholarship is the first to consider representations of men and masculinity......more
Specters, Monsters, and the Damned examines a rich selection of Spanish fantastic literature to illustrate how the langu......more
Specters, Monsters, and the Damned examines a rich selection of Spanish fantastic literature to illustrate how the langu......more