Literary studies: general

This book depicts the Early Modern book markets in Europe and colonial Latin America.

This concise biography surveys Jonson's career and provides an introduction to his works in the context of Jacobean politics, court patronage and his many literary rivalries.

This book explores interconnections between the modes of knowing that we now associate with the rubrics 'literature' and 'science' at a formative point in their early development.

Surfing has emerged from ancient roots to become a twenty-first century phenomenon - an 'alternative' sport, lifestyle and art form with a global profile and ever-increasing numbers of participants.

Though all but three of Robert Sidney's 332 extant letters to his wife Barbara Gamage Sidney have been in the Sidney family archive, they have never previously been fully transcribed or edited.

During Anne Killigrew's lifetime (1660-1685) most of her known living relatives were connected to the court, yet very little is known about Anne herself.

This book offers analyses of texts from medieval France influenced by Ovid's myth of Narcissus including the Lay of Narcissus, Alain de Lille's Plaint of Nature, Rene d'Anjou's Love-Smitten Heart, Chretien de Troyes's Story of the Grail and Guillaume de Machaut's Fountain of Love.

This book is the first in-depth examination of revenge in the Odyssey.

First Published in 1993.

Obesity and eating disorders have stubbornly refused to respond to treatment since the 1990's.

First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist.

This book demonstrates the importance and potential role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in foreseeing and curbing future global pandemics.

Exploring the diverse factors that persuaded Christopher Columbus that he could reach the fabled "e;East"e; by sailing west, Dante, Columbus and the Prophetic Tradition considers, first, the impact of Dante's Divine Comedy and the apocalyptic prophetic tradition that it reflects, on Columbus's perception both of the cosmos and the eschatological meaning of his journey to what he called an 'other world.

Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience: Addressing Food Security, Nutrition, and Health provides poignant case studies of climate change resilience frameworks for nutrition-focused transformations of agriculture and food systems, food security, food sovereignty, and population health of underserved and marginalized communities from across the globe.

100 American Crime Writers  features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction.

Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language, it has received little critical attention in its own right.

This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time.

This book addresses Irish identity in Irish literature, especially masculinity in some of its forms through an interdisciplinary methodology.

Problem Plays' has been an awkward category for those Shakespeare plays that don't fit the conventional groupings.

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While Romantic-era concepts of childhood nostalgia have been understood as the desire to retrieve the ephemeral mindset of the child, this collection proposes that the emergence of digital media has altered this reflective gesture towards the past.

De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales (1800) est un livre dont l'importance tient au rôle qu'il a joué dans la naissance de l'histiore littéraire et, plus généralement, des sciences humaines.

Traditionally, Wordsworth's greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude.

This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Tennessee Williams in China, from rejection and/or misgivings to cautious curiosity and to full-throated acceptance, in the context of profound changes in China's socioeconomic and cultural life and mores since the end of the Cultural Revolution.

This groundbreaking book explores the relevance of queer theory to Translation Studies and of translation to Global Sexuality Studies.

The fascinating area of Nutrigenomics describes this daily communication between our diet and our genome.

Drawing on research into the book-production records of twelve publishers-including George Bell & Son, Richard Bentley, William Blackwood, Chatto & Windus, Oliver & Boyd, Macmillan, and the book printers William Clowes and T&A Constable - taken at ten-year intervals from 1836 to 1916, this book interprets broad trends in the growth and diversity of book publishing in Victorian Britain.

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism.

This book explores the popularity of the Greek romances during the Roman Empire and their contribution to understanding Greek identity.

This Brief evaluates the consequences of protein modifications in cheeses, with special emphasis on mozzarella cheeses.

Hamlet remains the most-studied of all Shakespeare's great tragedies.

This essay collection addresses the paradox that something may at once "e;be"e; and "e;not be"e; Shakespeare.

Inventing the Gothic Corpse shows how a series of bold experiments in eighteenth-century British realist and Gothic fiction transform the dead body from an instructive icon into a thrill device.

Unleash positive thinking and productive imagination, and flip negative thoughts and behaviors into a lifetime to improve every aspect of your life—each morning, one day at a time.

American historians have typically argued that a shared experience of time worked to bind the antebellum nation together.

A portrait of the diverse literary cultures of the city from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to the present.

Phytochemicals as Bioactive Agents focuses on the mechanisms of action of phytochemicals identified as displaying bioactivity in the prevention of cancer, heart disease and other diseases and the prospects for developing functional foods containing these bioactive compounds.

Rhetoric has long been a powerful and pervasive force in political and cultural life, yet in the early modern period, rhetorical training was generally reserved as a masculine privilege.