Literary studies: general

Investigation of the Latin poetry produced by British poets from the sixteenth century onwards affords an indispensible insight into a dominant strand in the intellectual, cultural and educational life of the British Isles during this period.

The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward.

In this essential guidebook, the authors identify the most common allergens, help readers diagnose an allergy, and provide a full action plan for allergy relief.

Religion is a modern invention, a category used to describe and study certain kinds of human behaviour.

A comprehensive history of Roman drama from its beginnings to the end of the Republican period.

Robert Sidney, the first Earl of Leicester (1563-1626), serves as an exemplar of an Elizabethan nobleman who had in his collection a body of work pertinent to the subject of masculine honour in the private realm.

This book explores the influence of the fin de siècle in early twentieth-century art and literature.

Originally published in 1984, Literature and Law in the Middle Ages is a comprehensive bibliography on the subject of literature and law in the Middle Ages.

Taking up works by Samuel Richardson, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Scott, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick, among others, Jennifer B.

Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century.

The Taurine Symposium- "e;Taurine: Beginning the 21' Century"e;- was held September 20-23, 2002, on the beautiful island of Kauai in Hawaii.

First published in 1972, the second edition of this highly respected classic of Trollope criticism will be welcomed by Trollope scholars everywhere.

This book considers the poetry written by converts between Catholic and Protestant churches within post-Reformation England.

This book establishes river fiction as an identifiable genre-fiction.

A study of the Book of Common Prayer''s influence on English history and literature.

Digressions and the Human Imagination makes a significant contribution to our anthropological knowledge about human creativity.

This essential guide explores and celebrates the rise and development of modernist and avant-garde literatures and theories in the period 1910-1945, from Imagism to the Apocalypse movement.

In the past few years, discussion of fiction in all sorts of media has intensified.

A comprehensive single-volume study surveying C.

Although history records that the British nineteenth century was obsessed with order,conventionality, and conformity, there were many Victorians from all walks of life, across lines of class, race, and gender, who resisted social mores and sometimes the laws themselves, in a variety of ways and to varying degrees.

In recent years, animals have entered the focus of the social and cultural sciences, resulting in the emergence of the new field of human-animal studies.

This volume considers texts produced between 1800 and 1830, exploring themes such as print culture, Illustration and the narrative form.

A philosophical commentary on a section of the Enneads written by the last great Neoplatonist thinker, Plotinus.

The essays in this volume explore the Mediterranean both as a physical and cultural space, and as a conceptual notion that challenges the boundaries between East and West.

This book presents a new argument that reimagines modern theater''s critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage.

While celebrating the centenary of the "e;annus mirabilis"e; of modernism, we now encounter modernism after postmodernist, poststructuralist, postcolonial, critical race, feminist, queer and trans writing and theory.

Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences.

Claudia Brodsky marshals her equal expertise in literature and philosophy to redefine the terms and trajectory of the theory and interpretation of modern poetry.

To what extent has feminism benefited women?

This volume surveys transnational encounters and entanglements between Germany and East Asia since 1945, a period that has witnessed unprecedented global connections between the two regions.

Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others.

This volume offers students and book club members a handy and insight-filled guide to Morrison's works and their relation to current events and popular culture.

Examining works by well-known figures of the English Revolution, including John Milton, Oliver Cromwell, Margaret Fell Fox, Lucy Hutchinson, Thomas Hobbes, and King Charles I, Giuseppina Iacono Lobo presents the first comprehensive study of conscience during this crucial and turbulent period.

Concentrating on a period of significant social and political change and exploring both canonical and newly rediscovered texts, this book critically assess the changing culture of the late-Victorian period as represented by a range of women writers through a range of essays by leading academics in the field and cutting-edge work by newer scholars.

First published in 1972, this book provides a helpful overview of the grotesque and its use in a number of literary genres including novels, drama and poetry.

The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem explores how cultural responses to the trauma of the First World War found expression in the form of the modernist long poem.

In this book, Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth explores the effects of ideology on the English-to-German translation of children's literature under the socialist regime of the former German Democratic Republic.

Gayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice in this unique book.

John Newbery is celebrated as the first successful publisher of children's books, and the founder of modern children's literature.

This book comprehensively rethinks the relationship between G.

Today the 80-mile-long Moscow Canal is a source of leisure for Muscovites, a conduit for tourists and provides the city with more than 60% of its potable water.

Ce livre explore les marges de la littérature du moi, les " vies secrètes " d'écrivains du XIXe et du XXe siècles, au gré de vingt-deux communications.