Literary companions, book reviews and guides

Joyce and Geometry reveals the full extent to which the modernist writer James Joyce was influenced by the radical theories of non-Euclidean geometry.

First published in 1988, this book aims to provide keys to the study of Gothicism in British and American literature.

Eighteenth-century British culture was transfixed by the threat of contagion, believing that everyday elements of the surrounding world could transmit deadly maladies from one body to the next.

Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates combines classic critical essays alongside new voices and approaches, highlighting vibrant debates on medieval literature that will continue to shape critical conversations for the coming decades.

This literary companion guides the reader into the labyrinth of storytelling within The Arabian Nights.

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years.

First published in 1988, this reissue is an important work in the field of national literary exchange.

Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O'Grady published a three-volume History of Ireland that simultaneously recounted the heroic ancient past of the Irish people and helped to usher in a new era of cultural revival and political upheaval.

An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa but just nine miles from Europe, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape.

First published in 1998, this title provides for the reader of the renowned metaphysical poet and politician a valuable reference and resource volume.

First published in 1995, this title provides the reader with a compendium of useful information for any reader of George Herbert to have at hand.

This revised edition provides a way of understanding the vast universe of genre fiction in an easy-to-use format.

This Companion shows in new ways how Orwell''s most famous work continues to be a novel for our times.

First published in 1925, Primitive Culture in Greece dispassionately reviews the claim that the Greeks were 'heathen' and asks how much of the savage ancestry was left in the classical Greek.

This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction.

Old English literature thrived in late tenth-century England.

Word Mingas is an English-language translation by Paul M.

This special edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontes commemorates the bicentenary of Emily Bronte's birth in July 1818 and provides comprehensive and detailed information about the lives, works, and reputations of the Brontes - the three sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, their father, and their brother Branwell.

This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies.

First published in 1969.

This set reissues 5 books on George Eliot originally published between 1963 and 1989.

While the national narrative coming out of Ireland since the 2008 economic crisis has been relentlessly sanguine, fiction has offered a more nuanced perspective from both well-established and emerging authors.

That the works of the ancient tragedians still have an immediate and profound appeal surely needs no demonstration, yet the modern reader continually stumbles across concepts which are difficult to interpret or relate to - moral pollution, the authority of oracles, classical ideas of geography - as well as the names of unfamiliar legendary and mythological figures.

This Companion offers an introduction to key topics in the study of erotic literature from antiquity to the present.

Contemporary Latin American fiction establishes a unique connection between masquerade, frequently motivated by stigma or trauma, and social justice.

Study of the sea--both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation--has been largely ignored by ecocritics.

Garden writing is not just a place to find advice about roses and rutabagas; it also contains hidden histories of desire, hope, and frustration and tells a story about how Americans have invested grand fantasies in the common soil of everyday life.

Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O'Grady published a three-volume History of Ireland that simultaneously recounted the heroic ancient past of the Irish people and helped to usher in a new era of cultural revival and political upheaval.

In this book, Fran O’Rourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the author’s oeuvre.

Broadway productions of musicals such as The King and I, Oliver!

Religion is not merely a different way of thinking but is rather an alternative manner of being-it is both a way of attending to the world and a form of embodiment.

Essential reading for all those interested in Irish literature and culture and its far-reaching effects on the world.

First published in 1972, this is the first detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan literature.

Originally published in 1993, The Medieval Charlemagne Legend is a selective bibliography for the literary scholar, of historical and literary material relating to Charlemagne.

Want to become a crime novel buff, or expand your reading in your favourite genre?

Yeats and his shadow are one of the most closely scrutinised pairs in contemporary literary history.

John Crace's 'Digested Read' column in the Guardian has rightly acquired a cult following.

A collection that includes a lengthy introduction describing historical trends in critical interpretations and theatrical performances of Shakespeare's play; 20 essays on the play, including two written especially for this volume (by Maurice Hunt and David Bergeron).

First published in 1988, this reissue is an important work in the field of national literary exchange.

Surveying the development of medieval scholarship through biography, this volume contains 23 original essays on scholars whose work shaped medieval historiography for the past 300 years.

First published in 1998.

The novels of Charlotte and Emily Bronte have become canonical texts for the application of twentieth century literary and cultural theory.

The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets collects together writings by all the major poetic figures from Chaucer to Yeats demonstrating their vivid responses to each other, ranging from elegiac eulogy to burlesque and satire.

An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period.

A collection that includes a lengthy introduction describing historical trends in critical interpretations and theatrical performances of Shakespeare's play; 20 essays on the play, including two written especially for this volume (by Maurice Hunt and David Bergeron).

This book, first published in 1986, explores the allusions in Dickens's work, such as current events and religious and intellectual issues, social customs, topography, costume, furniture and transportation.

This is the first volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period July 1828-Deember 1837.