Literary companions, book reviews and guides

Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions.

First published in 1954, A Handbook of Latin Literature is an attempt to put together a cohesive account of classical and early post-classical writings in the Latin tongue, and is a companion to the Handbook of Greek Literature.

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

A substantial introduction traces the Tristan and Isolde legend from the twelfth century to the present, emphasizing literary versions, but also surveying the legend's sources and its appearance in the visual arts, music and film.

Strangers in Blood explores, in a range of early modern literature, the association between migration to foreign lands and the moral and physical degeneration of individuals.

This collection historicises the life and works of George Bernard Shaw through the lens of forty-two popular subjects of study.

Shakespeare's history plays are central to his dramatic achievement.

Ann Blainey's work, first published in 1985, provides a sensitive study of Leigh Hunt and the literary climate that influenced his life, and fills a large gap in literary biography.

The late Harry Levin had an international reputation as the world's foremost comparatiste, and he was among the most knowledgeable Shakespeare scholars in the world.

This set reissues two volumes entitled A Book of Broadsheets and A Second Book of Broadsheets, both with introductions by Geoffrey Dawson, a former editor of The Times.

This Companion features thirteen essays from leading international experts on William Carlos Williams, covering his major poetry and prose works.

Winner of the 2023 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for best book in the category of Jewish literature and linguistics Traditionally the scene of some of London's poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods, the East End of London has long been misunderstood as abject and deviant.

Modern Irish Drama: W.

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

An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.

Winner of the 2023 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for best book in the category of Jewish literature and linguistics Traditionally the scene of some of London's poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods, the East End of London has long been misunderstood as abject and deviant.

Between 1948 and the end of the 1950s, Italian and American government agencies and corporations commissioned hundreds of short films for domestic and foreign consumption on topics such as the fight against unemployment, the transformation of rural and urban spaces, and the re-establishment of democratic regimes in Italy and throughout Europe.

This book provides a new map of American literature in the global era, analyzing the multiple meanings of transnationalism.

Most criticism of The Lord of the Rings trilogy emphasizes the most likely heroes in the tales: Aragorn, Frodo, Gandalf, and even Sam.

Emphasizing the significance of his political and historical engagement, this work casts Abraham Lincoln as a cultural figure.

First published in 1940.

The Alexander Lectures for 1949-50.

This is the first truly representative collection of texts by Helene Cixous.

First published in 1951, this book is based on a course of lectures on poetry and prose given at Cambridge University during the long vacations of 1946-1950.

This book, first published in 1988, reveals the great care Dickens took with the planning and preparation of A Tale of Two Cities and its roots.

The dandy, a nineteenth-century character and concept exemplified in such works as Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, reverberates in surprising corners of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture.

Arabic is unconditionally the national language of Palestinians, but for many it is no longer their mother-tongue.

Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD.

This book, first published in 1985, explores the consciousness and the experience of Shakespeare's audience.

John Van Buren's 'Travel journal for a trip to Europe, 1838-1839' is a record of the a year he spent in England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium and Holland, primarily for his father, Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the United States.

Immigrant communities evince particular and deep relationship to place.

First published in 1980.

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions.

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What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about?

John Van Buren's 'Travel journal for a trip to Europe, 1838-1839' is a record of the a year he spent in England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium and Holland, primarily for his father, Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the United States.

Originally published in 1983, this title lists and annotates reference sources which will help readers select primary materials useful in studies of the literary portraits of women and their societal roles.

First published in 1905, these two volumes together reproduced the text of Rawlinson MS.

For as long as the United States owed its prosperity to a New World plantation complex, from colonial settlement until well into the twentieth century, the toxic practices associated with its permutations stimulated imaginary solutions to the contradiction with the nation's enlightenment ideals and republican ideology.

The Word in the World is a collection of essays and lectures by H S Shivaprakash, a well-known poet, playwright, and translator.

Arabic is unconditionally the national language of Palestinians, but for many it is no longer their mother-tongue.

A major reassessment of Jack Kerouac''s literary work.

After the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Protestants worried that King Charles II might favour religious freedom for Roman Catholics, and many suspected that the king was unduly influenced by his Catholic mistresses.

Score One for the Dancing Girl presents more than a hundred stories from an early-nineteenth-century collection of yadam stories, the Kimun ch’onghwa (“Compendium of Records of Hearsay”).

During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature.

Zola has begun to receive the serious critical study he deserves, but which, chiefly for religious and political resons, has until recent years been denied.

First published in 1966.