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The African American Great Migration novel emerged as a popular mode of fiction in the 1920s. Not surprisingly, the deca......more
This new volume gathers reviews and essays on visual artists and writers published by Greg Masters in various magazines,......more
This companion is the first comprehensive study of courier poetry--in which someone, usually a lonely lover, sends an un......more
Since the publication of The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo by Tom Feelings, more African American creators hav......more
George Chapman (1559-1634) is mostly remembered as the first English translator of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and as the......more
George Chapman (1559-1634) is mostly remembered as the first English translator of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and as the......more
This is the first ever edition of this English version of Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae, the first translation of a Roman h......more
Since the publication of The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo by Tom Feelings, more African American creators hav......more
Conversations with Jason Berry offers an intimate look at the life and mind of one of America’s most fearless investigat......more
Conversations with Jason Berry offers an intimate look at the life and mind of one of America’s most fearless investigat......more
This book examines the works of American writers in Paris and explores the evolving interactions between these writers a......more
This is the first book to cover the evolution and scope of Aldous Huxley’s socio-political ideas in a concise and highly......more
This book explores the popular writing of the New Humourists and their vital engagement with late Victorian conceptions ......more
This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout......more
This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval Icela......more
Predramatic Theatre offers a fresh, innovative account of the drama of the period prior to the building of the professio......more
This book examines how Chinese thinkers and writers drew on foreign literature between 1918 and 1958 in order to constru......more
This book explores the significance of corporeality in literature through a "South-South" comparison of the works of Col......more
This book adopts various newly emerged and established approaches to text analysis, including pragmatics, discourse anal......more
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This edited collection is composed of four uniquely authored chapters, each of which examines collective identity in ear......more
This book explores the impact of digital technology on the preservation and transmission of intangible cultural heritage......more
This book encounters the figure of the royal woman in the early modern period and explores how she enables and complicat......more
This book examines William Blake as a ’mystic’ and the movements and authors that contributed to this definition during ......more
This book offers the first book-length study of user-generated, social media-based true crime content. The book consider......more
This landmark volume offers a bold response from the East to the Western classic The Golden Bough, bringing Chinese pers......more
This book focuses on its developments and variations of performances of manaschï, the epic poet of Manas. The book mainl......more
This open access book examines how Indigenous authors from the Soviet North reflect the impact of Soviet settler colonia......more
This book offers the first full-length scholarly study of Sistren Theatre Collective, one of the most significant theatr......more
Magic and the Occult in Contemporary Poetry investigates the relationship between poetry and magic in the context of con......more
In April of 2021, a small theatre in Philadelphia took a big risk: The Wilma premiered a new play called Fat Ham by a th......more
This book examines truthfulness in transmedia practices, particularly in relation to scientific knowledge and the mediat......more
Nature’s ability to satisfy deep human needs is familiar to anyone who has hiked up a mountain, canoed a river, or hung ......more
This authoritative edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer presents Chaucer’s works for a new generation of st......more
Placing Elysium in Renaissance Britain: Poetry, Politics, Theology, Eros is the first study of Elysium as a place in Eng......more
A steady stream of nonfiction books, novels, movies, TV documentaries, websites, and podcasts has continued to feed Amer......more
Composite Selves contributes to studies of the novel rooted in but continuing beyond the eighteenth century by reflectin......more
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In recent decades authors from across the world have adopted and adapted the bildungsroman literary genre to reflect on ......more
Since Plato’s Republic, mimesis -- the artwork’s tacit claim to reflect or imitate real life -- has faced a near-constan......more
The story of a Nebraska-born writer that provides a unique view on how a woman with a strong voice, vivid sense of humor......more
Postcolonialism has long been associated with post-nationalism. Yet, the persistence of nation-oriented literatures from......more
Examining novels by celebrated authors, some neglected and some brand new texts, Arin Keeble offers a detailed analysis ......more
Set against a backdrop of Marx’s theory of how we "mediate, regulate, and control" our metabolic relation to nature, of ......more
For many theatergoers and readers, Shakespeare’s lofty reputation as the world’s greatest playwright has turned him into......more
Through an analysis of the career of the eminent courtier Sir Thomas Overbury, Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Lett......more
The emergence of a mass reading public during the early decades of the nineteenth century sparked a period of creative i......more
Whilst Shakespearean drama provides eloquent calls to war, more often than not these are undercut or outweighed by compe......more
Challenging received ideas about the British Poetry Revival, Luke Roberts presents a new account of experimental poetry ......more
Queer books, like LGBTQ+ people, adapt heteronormative structures and institutions to introduce space for discourses of ......more
The Modern Language Review, the official quarterly journal of the Modern Humanities Research Association, publishes arti......more
A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contribut......more
Migration, Dictatorship, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the impact of migration on the self-understan......more
Umberto Eco was an Italian professor of semiotics versed in medieval philosophy and linguistics. As a public intellectua......more
Nelligan’s finest poems This collection of 46 poems, translated from French, has been selected for both poetic and psych......more
This book examines the work of a group of young avant garde fiction writers who made their rebellious appearance on the ......more
Originally published in 1981 Ernest Hemingway is a collection of papers from the Hemingway Collection conference of 1980......more
The second volume in E.J.W. Gibb’s classic study of Ottoman Poetry, reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead, ......more
Surveying the full breadth of J. M. Coetzee’s career as both academic and novelist, this book argues for the necessity o......more
Through the narrative analysis of texts, ranging from political speeches to museum documents as well as graffiti and pos......more
Using Iran as an example of an ancient civilization with a sustained course of continuity all the way to the present tim......more
Mina Loy is recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the body, but her fascination with corporeality is inex......more
Criticism of the novel routinely starts with the assumption that characters must think, develop and strive for self-fulf......more
It is commonly believed that William Barnes (1801-1886) steered clear of politics in his poetry. Yet the first poem he e......more
Avant-garde poetry in the Antipodes causes all sorts of trouble for literary history. It is an avant-garde that seems to......more
At this critical juncture in which the biodiversity of planet Earth appears to be shrinking fast and furiously, Louis Ki......more
Bringing together a group of untimely, queerly-oriented writers - Dorothy Macardle, Kate O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Mo......more
This book explores a series of watershed moments in American politics through the lens of twenty-first-century fiction. ......more
The decades following the independences from colonialism saw a pioneering generation of realist novels and films emerge ......more
Pablo Neruda in Context includes forty-two essays by some of the main experts on Pablo Neruda’s oeuvre that focus on how......more
Volume III of E.J.W. Gibb’s classic study of Ottoman Poetry covering the period from 1520 to c. 1700, is now reissued wi......more
Volume IV of E.J.W. Gibb’s classic study of Ottoman Poetry - here reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead - c......more
Volume V of E.J.W. Gibb’s classic study of Ottoman Poetry - here reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead - co......more
Volume VI of E.J.W. Gibb’s classic study of Ottoman Poetry - here reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead - c......more
Volume 1 of Reynold A. Nicholson’s authoritative translation and edition of Rúmí’s magnum opus - reissued with a new for......more
Volume 3 of Reynold A. Nicholson’s authoritative translation and edition of Rúmí’s magnum opus - reissued with a new for......more
Volume 6 of Reynold A. Nicholson’s authoritative translation and edition of Rúmí’s magnum opus - reissued with a new for......more
Volume 2 of Reynold A. Nicholson’s authoritative translation and edition of Rúmí’s magnum opus - reissued with a new for......more
Volume 5 of Reynold A. Nicholson’s authoritative translation and edition of Rúmí’s magnum opus - here reissued with a ne......more
Volume 8 of Reynold A. Nicholson’s authoritative translation and edition of Rúmí’s magnum opus - reissued with a new for......more
Volume I of E.J.W. Gibb’s classic study of Ottoman Poetry - here reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead - co......more
Volume 4. of Reynold A. Nicholson’s authoritative translation and edition of Rúmí’s magnum opus - here reissued with a n......more
Volume 7 of Reynold A. Nicholson’s authoritative translation and edition of Rúmí’s magnum opus - reissued with a new for......more
With the 1987 publication of Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Black American Woman Novelist Hazel Carby pr......more