As the first study of its kind, this book explores the publication of poetry on sound carriers in the US postwar era fro......more

Won the Doireann MacDermott Cultural Studies in English Award Besides nourishing us, food can be used metaphorically to ......more

This volume, written by young and established scholars, surveys the role of China in Scottish literature, and the transl......more

The present contributions examine three modes of interpretation-rewriting, appropriation, and commentary-within early Je......more

While the study of antiquity and its reception has been an important subject of study for centuries, theoretical approac......more

American popular culture has a rich potential for delivering the narratives of the American people, who are often confin......more

The patriarch Jacob functions as the main character in Jubilees, one of the most important early Jewish texts outside th......more

To what extent does the production of art require the work of hands? And, reciprocally, to what extent does an artwork e......more

In his nearly half a century in the English Department of Purdue University, Shaun Hughes has had an incalculable impact......more

This book explores the Persian sage ʿUmar Khayyām and the globally renowned quatrains (rubāʿiyyāt) attributed to him fro......more

This book offers a contribution to contemporary discussions in the field of Latin American critical theory and literary ......more

This book examines the representation and historical significance of the legendary Scandinavian past as it is depicted i......more

The volume consists of 21 essays from an international group of scholars. The volume is broken into two parts: Reading S......more

The book is an examination of the apocryphal text known as Book Seven of the Mathnawī, attributed to Rūmī, which has nev......more

The study intervenes in a field hitherto dominated by formal and historical analyses of the literary letter. Across the ......more

A recently-published second-century papyrus, P.Oxy. 5283, contains prose summaries (hypotheses) of six plays by the Gree......more

There is a growing interest in studying narrative discourse as ’experimental values laboratory, ’ both reflecting social......more

Russian culture and Slavic Studies maintain that Gogol is an incontrovertible Russian writer. To call him a Ukrainian is......more

Byzantine Thessaloniki has often been considered in its relationship with Constantinople, as a deuteragonist vis-à-vis t......more

This volume explores the theme of marginality in the literature and history of the Neronian and Flavian periods. As a co......more

This new study provides fresh readings of Thomas Hardy’s work and illuminates the social and cultural history of dress i......more

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources, the transformative successor to Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History......more

This is the first comprehensive study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing a deeply researched and interdis......more

In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book exa......more

A genuinely original work, The Art of the Reprint establishes the reprint as a vital area of study. In tightly curated e......more

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Shakespeare education is being reimagined around the world. This book delves into the important role of collaborative pr......more

Wittgenstein is often regarded as the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, and in recent decades, his wo......more

This is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the Decameron’s response to classical and medie......more

Technology in Irish Literature and Culture shows how such significant technologies--typewriters, gramophones, print, rad......more

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Mapping the transformative personal journeys of the displaced The travel writing genre has long been associated with a c......more

Protestant Periodicals in Transition: From the Twentieth Century to the Digital Age demarcates the field of religious pe......more

This study breaks with traditional readings in terms of tragic model and tragic hero in the works of Racine and Corneill......more

Originally published in 1980, each of the three playwrights discussed in this lively book was a radical in his own way, ......more

First published in 1969, Comparative Literature explores an area of interest rather than a special discipline. While Pro......more

First published in 1971, Reinterpretations focusses upon a group of closely related major poems--L’Allegro and Il Penser......more

First published in 1952, The Universities and the Theatre contains the papers read at the Symposium on the Responsibilit......more

First published in 1971, Edmund Spenser presents a comprehensive overview of Spencer’s work, including the minor poems a......more

First published in 1972, Drama and Reality is a lucid account of the forces that have shaped modern European theatre, an......more

The Augustan Age (1962) examines the writing of the time, and the critical theory that supported it. By focusing on a fe......more

A Test of Poetry (1932) is a comparative study of poetry from Homer to the twentieth century. By giving several translat......more

Henry Fielding (1933) examines Fielding’s prodigious activity as dramatist, journalist, novelist and magistrate. Though ......more

Mario Vargas Llosa’s intellectual transformations, from socialism to pragmatism, and liberalism, are reflected in his po......more

Judaic cultures have a commitment to language that is exceptional. Language in many form - texts, books and scrolls; lea......more

Worlds at the End attends to a body of literature that renders Los Angeles’s infrastructure, or its material foundations......more

Ectogenesis, or artificial wombs, is not yet a reality. But is it the future? In this revolutionary book, Evie Kendal ex......more

The first extended examination into the structure of influence of Zora Neale Hurston’s work on major Black women writers......more

This book explores the nature and wide-ranging impact of the work of Jean-François Ducis (1733-1816), the first adaptor ......more

Illuminating an understudied avenue of classical reception in the performing arts, this book considers how the long arti......more

The first book to investigate, analyze and theorize the creative processes of literary writers, Creativity and Contingen......more

How are comics and Latin elegy related? Comics tell their stories by placing individual images in a sequence, and Latin ......more

The first collection to provide an overview of the well-known psychoanalytic theory of the death drive in literary and c......more

Offering the first comprehensive feminist analysis of ancient Greek fictional letters, this book focuses on the centurie......more

Placing Elysium in Renaissance Britain: Poetry, Politics, Theology, Eros is the first study of Elysium as a place in Eng......more

This study takes up the relations among computerization, labor, and the arts in South Africa. There are many books about......more

A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who adapted......more

The Victorian period gave rise to revelatory new approaches to art instruction. A growing investment in standardized edu......more

This study argues early African American literature constitutes an abiding repository of modern democratic thought that ......more

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This collection of essays is the first book devoted to exploring Marcel Proust’s influence on Irish literature and Irish......more

Examining the profound influence of biblical themes on contemporary poetry written in English, this book explores the wo......more

The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, this book covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present, testimo......more

Revisiting the place of Italian Futurism in English literary modernism, this book draws on a range of overlooked histori......more

Bringing together intersectional perspectives across disciplines such as the humanities, arts and social sciences, this ......more

Deception challenges readers to think about their own lies - from their first lies in childhood to the clever, provocati......more

The volume outlines modern British literature’s relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Spanning......more

The essays in this volume look at how gendered demands for both temporal and spatial access are articulated within speci......more

A collection of critical scholarship on early modern closet plays performed in private non-playhouse settings between 15......more

Examining a wide variety of poets from the last three decades of the 20th century to the present, from Asian, African, S......more

Interwar Britain--called the ’age of noise’--witnessed a pervasive preoccupation with ’unwanted’ sound. With the rising ......more

Artificial Humanities explores how literature, history, and art can deepen our understanding of artificial intelligence ......more

A new history of literary narration rooted in the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation. We often identify secularizatio......more