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Essays on The Glass Menagerie - Truth in the Pleasant Disguise of Illusion

This volume traces the growth of Tennessee Williams from being a fragile child to becoming one of America's greatest playwrights, also hi...

Adventure at Arms - On the Narrative Formation of Violence

Adventure fiction suggests that social conflicts can be displaced from the centre to the periphery of culture in order to be settled ther...

Intra/Sections - Towards Post-Anthropocentric Concepts of Multiplicity

The global socio-ecological crisis is making it increasingly clear that 'we' do not only act in interpersonal social and political relati...

Alternative Temporalities - The Emancipatory Power of Narrative

Alternative Temporalities reveals how modern literature can help us rethink temporal categories and practices to resist normative time an...

Cartographies of Disappearance - Vestiges of Everyday Life in Literature

Cartographies of Disappearance sheds light on representations of everyday life in an Iberian context.

Rediscovering Ancient Egyptian Literature through Arabic Poetics

"This book is the first of its kind to thoroughly and systematically compare ancient Egyptian and Arabic literary devices. Hany Rashwan c...

Ted Hughes

Originally published in 1985, this study provides a clear and intelligent introduction to the work of the former Poet Laureate, Ted Hughe...

American Contact - Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History

How studying material texts can help us better understand the diversity of the Americas, past and present A Hawai'ian quilt stitched with...

Tolstoy

Originally published in 1970, this account of Tolstoy's achievement as a novelist concentrates on the best known of his works, in particu...

Teaching the Global South - Pedagogical Approaches to a Decolonizing Curriculum in Literary and Cultural Studies

Pulcinella's Brood - Popular Culture in the Enlightenment

This book traces the transnational arc of the Neapolitan clown Pulcinella in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, exploring how this...

Renaissance Papers 2023

Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. This volume examine...

Women at Odds - Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature

Demonstrates the limitations of female solidarity in Victorian society, showing how the New Woman fashioned social progress for herself t...

Medievalism and Reception

The relationship between medievalism and reception explored via a rich variety of case studies.

Vernacular Edens - Tropes of Translation in Medieval European Fictions

This book examines the literary representation of gardens - a widespread motif in late medieval vernacular fiction - and the redeployment...

Literature and Medievalism in Early Modern England - Strange Histories

Directs scholarly focus towards a deeper appreciation of medievalist trends in the Elizabethan literary landscape and challenges traditio...

A Field Guide to Book History - Researching the Material Book

A Field Guide to Book History provides students and researchers new to the field the information and interpretive skills necessary for th...

The Language of Trauma in the Psalms

Investigates how individual and collective experiences of trauma are linguistically expressed in the Psalter and how the psalms' language...

Masculinities and Representation - The Eroticized Male in Early Modern Italy and England

Masculinities and Representation reveals how gender construction served to affirm but also diversify premodern masculinity.

Common Measures - Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community

"What happens to the experience of community when the grounds of communal life collapse? The Romantic period's upheaval cast both traditi...

The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race

This classroom-ready Companion brings together diverse specialists to discuss how Romantic-era thinkers engaged with race in sometimes ex...

The Cambridge Introduction to Literary Posthumanism

At a time when scholars in both literary and scientific disciplines are advancing the term posthumanism, this book offers a through-line....

Walter Pater and Persons

In this inventive and far-reaching study, Stephen Cheeke examines the vital concept of the Person in the work of Walter Pater. The book e...

Gissing, Shakespeare and the Life of Writing

Embodied Experience in British and French Literature, 1778-1814 - Women and Belonging

Combining feminist, materialist, and comparatist approaches, Jillian Heydt-Stevenson reveals evocative and hidden information about objec...

Making World Literature - Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States Since 1890

From universities to governments, the Big Five publishers to Amazon, the influence of institutions abounds in US publishing. A diverse ar...

An Apology for Pictures - Studies in Popular Illustrated Narrative in Europe, 1918-1939

Illustrierte Bücher sind für viele Kinder der Einstieg ins eigene Lesen, nachdem Oma oder Papa ihnen vorgelesen und ihren 'Leseappetit' g...

The Spanish Hermes and Wisdom Traditions in Medieval Iberia - Alfonso X's General Estoria

A captivating study of translation, adaptation, and intellectual cross-pollination that situates the Castilian Hermes in the center of me...

Alternative Cornwalls - Literature and the Invention of Place

This book takes a fresh look at the representation of Cornwall in literature. It offers new readings of familiar texts, and re-inserts li...

Interspatiality - Inhabiting Literary Geography

Interspatiality is a book about the language, theory and practice of a literary geography that takes as its subject matter the inseparabi...

The Intersection of Poetry and Jungian Analysis Through Metaphor - In Creation You Are Created

This book demonstrates the intersection of poetry and the practice of Jungian analysis through the metaphor. It enriches language in the ...

James Buchanan Elmore (1857-1942) - Literary Ethnographer and Folk Poet

James Buchanan Elmore (1857-1942): Literary Ethnographer and Folk Poet details the life and work of Elmore as a "folk poet," emphasizing ...

Emporialism - Department Store Fictions and the Politics of the Mediterranean

"A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Med...

Laughing on the Brink of Humanity - An Exercise in Epihumanism

"Stretching from antiquity to AI, a provocative study of the joyless laughter that emerges at the boundary of the human and the inhuman"--

Freedom Is Not Enough - T. S. Eliot for Liberation, Resistance, and Hope

Shows the surprising ways T. S. Eliot's work sheds light on--and proves useful to--the contemporary struggle for a freer and more just wo...

How Close Reading Made Us - The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism

"Shows how the method of close reading traveled from the United States to Brazil and Israel, revealing its profound impact on global mode...

Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare's England

Addressing an imbalance in early modern studies, Bonnie Lander Johnson reveals how, through interest in popular plant cultures and belief...

Goethe - New Perspectives on a Writer and his Time

First published in 1972, Goethe presents a biography looking at one of the few great Europeans to be universally recognized as a hero of ...

Shakespeare's Liminal Spaces - Contesting Authority on the Early Modern Stage

Shakespeare's liminal spaces offers the first in-depth examination into the metaphorical and symbolic significations of Shakespeare's tra...

From Boys to Men - The Boy Problem and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series

"While adult concern about gender in children's books has made recent headlines, this discussion is far from new. As Gregory M. Pfitzer r...

Rewriting Islam - Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature

Linguistic Labor and Literary Doulas - Spanglish, Portuñol, and Judeo-Spanish Languages and Literatures

"Building on sociolinguistic understandings of the intersections of language, nation, and identity, this book examines the literatures of...

Prosaic Times - Time as Subject in Wordsworth, Richardson, Flaubert, and Melville

"By capturing the temporal dimensions in Wordsworth's The Prelude, Richardson's Clarissa, Flaubert's "Un Coeur Simple," and Melville's Mo...

Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature

"How has a writer known principally for his contained domestic novels come to represent the most dynamic elements of world literature? Th...

On Fiction and Being a Good Animal

[headline]Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary and utopian sensibility for living in a mo...

The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien

World first publication of the collected poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, spanning almost seven decades of the author's life and presented in an ...

Habib Tanvir and His Legacy in Theatre - A Centennial Reappraisal

Essays exploring the lasting impact of Habib Tanvir's pioneering theatre which blended tradition with modernity in the post-Independence ...

Oliver Goldsmith in Context

The Vicar of Wakefield, The Deserted Village, and She Stoops to Conquer number among the greatest literary works of the eighteenth centur...

Texts and Contexts - The Roman Writers and Their Audience

First published in 1979, Texts and Contexts identifies those classics of Roman literature which deserve to survive because of their intri...

Into Another Mould - Change and Continuity in English Culture 1625-1700

Although 1660 to some extent marks a turning point, this comprehensive book (originally published in 1992) demonstrates an underlying con...

Flannery O'Connor's Manhattan

"This book offers a unique twist to the Who's Who of midcentury writers, editors, and artists. Much is made of Flannery O'Connor's life o...

Scottish Literature of the South Seas - Critical Studies of Scotland and the Pacific

This volume explores how Scottish writing about the Pacific, by Robert Louis Stevenson and other prominent Scots, generates a cultural ex...

The Way to Hell - Machiavelli for Catastrophic Times

"We are living in Machiavellian times, argues Nathan Crick in The Way to Hell: Machiavelli for Catastrophic Times. Just as Machiavelli wa...

Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War

The notion that wars impel conceptual and aesthetic innovations is well-established in studies of modern literature. This book offers nua...

Dilemmas of Discourse - Controversies about the Sociological Interpretation of Language

First Published in 1975, Dilemmas of Discourse brings together strands of arguments from disciplines like sociology, anthropology, lingui...

Theology and the Mythic Sensibility - Human Myth-Making and Divine Creativity

Theology and the Mythic Sensibility will be attractive to anyone with an interest in stories and how they reveal the world to be full of ...

Liturgy, Ritual, and Secularization in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Liturgy incarnates unseen realities in concrete forms - bread, wine, water, the architectural arrangement of religious buildings. Uncover...

Critical Essays on the Poetry of Tennyson

First Published in 1960, Critical Essays on the Poetry of Tennyson presents a collection of essays, most of which have been previously pu...

Realism in Alexandrian Poetry - A Literature and its Audience

The stylistic aims of the Alexandrian poets have been much discussed, as has their reliance on literary tradition.First published in 1987...

The Origins of Literary Studies in America - A Documentary Anthology

Originally published in 1989, The Origins of Literary Studies in America brings together for the first time hard-to-find speeches, report...