Literary studies: general

Examines four texts of the Imperial period in order to elucidate how each author formulates very different conceptions of Homer.

A comprehensive critical account of Margaret Atwood''s novels, short stories, poetry, and essays.

Cet ouvrage retrace les étapes de l'essor du livre au Québec, de son apparition vers 1840 jusqu'à 1940.

A collection of new essays on First World War literature and its contexts.

Since 1940, Captain America has battled his enemies in the name of American values, and as those values have changed over time, so has Captain America's character.

This book contains a set of papers which explore the links among climate change, health, and hazards and demonstrate how they interact.

Originally published in 1984.

This is a study of the most fascinating and idiosyncratic of all seventeenth-century figures.

What is Chekhov's method of ensuring audience participation?

Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male.

This edited book addresses the diversity across time and space of the sites, actors and practices of feminist translation from 1945-2000.

The story of the Holy Grail has gripped the imaginations of millions since it first appeared in medieval romances, among them Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German Parzival (c.

Writings by early-modern English artisans are rare and thus precious.

Peter Widdowson's major new selection of Hardy's poetry offers the student a challenging assessment of his poetic achievement by juxtaposing Hardy's best known poems with some of his least known.

Declamation - the practice of training young men to speak in public by setting them to compose and deliver speeches on fictional legal cases - was central to the Greek and Roman educational systems over many centuries and has been the subject of a recent explosion of scholarly interest.

The regulation on European Health Technology Assessment (EU HTA) entered into force on 11 January 2022 and will apply from 12 January 2025.

This book, in two volumes, contains an annotated English translation of the Historia da Ethiopia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Paez (Pero Pais in Portuguese), 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese padroado missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia, long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John.

This book looks at the staging and performance of normality in early modern drama.

The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works.

Meat and dairy production and consumption are in crisis.

A Year of Real and Literary Birds is simultaneously an almanac of bird life, a work of interdisciplinary literary scholarship, and a chronicle of family life.

First appearing in 1981, this book was the first full-length study of the Songs of Innocence and Experience to be published in almost fifteen years.

Deanna Fernie analyzes the significance of sculpture in Hawthorne's fiction through the recurring motif of the fragment in its double guise as ruin and project.

This study explores the reinvention of the calendar during the French Revolution and its long-lasting cultural effects.

With the publication of Brian Gibbons's Jacobean City Comedy thirty-five years ago, the urban satires by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton attained their 'official status as a Renaissance subgenre' that was distinct, by its farcical humour and ironic tone, from 'citizen comedy' or 'London drama' more generally.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the role of gut microbiome/microflora in nutrition, metabolism, disease prevention and health issues, including farm animal health and food value, and human gastrointestinal health and immunity.

The Prelude is now seen as a central text in the Wordsworth corpus.

This collection analyses the remaking of culture and music spaces during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Deirdre David traces the successful writing life of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) from the time of her childhood growing up in a theatrical household in South London to her death as the widow of the novelist and popular intellectual C.

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances, beginning with Nell Gwyn in a 1668 staging of Secret Love, and moving chronologically towards the final performance of John Philip Kemble's controversial adaptation of Thomas Otway's Venice Presever'd in October 1795.

«Trois ans, avait-elle dit, mais ce laps de temps est dépourvu de sens à mes yeux, je ne peux pas le concevoir.

A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with terror.

Using quantitative techniques, this volume provides empirical evidence on the crucial role of public provisioning of food, water, sanitation and health care in reducing undernutrition among women and children in India.

We no longer ascribe the term 'mermaid' to those we deem sexually or economically threatening; we do not ubiquitously use the mermaid's image in political propaganda or feature her within our houses of worship; perhaps most notably, we do not entertain the possibility of the mermaid's existence.

This book presents advanced knowledge and techniques to improve food quality, such as organic farming, fertilization using waste, reducing arsenic in food, soil restoration, forage production in arid regions and weed control.

In these original readings of Albert Camus' novels, short stories, and political essays, David Carroll concentrates on Camus' conflicted relationship with his Algerian background and finds important critical insights into questions of justice, the effects of colonial oppression, and the deadly cycle of terrorism and counterterrorism that characterized the Algerian War and continues to surface in the devastation of postcolonial wars today.

The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story.

Richard Rorty is one of the most influential, controversial and widely-read philosophers of the twentieth century.