Literary studies: general

The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature explores the interplay between the domination of nature and the oppression of women, as well as liberatory alternatives, bringing together essays from leading academics in the field to facilitate cutting-edge critical readings of literature.

This new study focuses on the critically neglected area of Rossetti's devotional poetry and her prose, offering a critical intervention in the feminist construction of an important Victorian woman poet.

Volume 2 of the Text on the Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, spanning from 1804 to 1808.

As theatre and drama of the Romantic Period undergo a critical reassessment among scholars internationally, the contributions of women as playwrights, actresses, and managers are also being revalued.

Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, and novels by Margaret Atwood, Kim Scott, Barbara Kingsolver and Octavia Butler.

Improvisation, despite its almost ubiquitous presence in many art forms, is notoriously misunderstood and mysterious.

Charlotte Bronte: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Bronte's life and work.

As the second volume of a two-volume set on Chinese narratology, this title investigates the quintessential characteristics of the Chinese narrative style, with a focus on image and perspective.

Una epidemia nutricional marcará el siglo XXI: las enfermedades infecciosas han dejado de ser la principal causa de mortalidad y en su lugar aparecen como primera causa las enfermedades derivadas de una mala nutrición.

This book provides a critical overview of analytical methods used for the determination of pesticide residues and other contaminants in food and environmental samples by modern instrumental analysis.

This book contains poetry attributed to Omar Khayyaam (1048-1131), a popular Iranian poet whose philosophies provoke strong reactions from those who agree or disagree with his ideas.

The Ecophobia Hypothesis grows out of the sense that while the theory of biophilia has productively addressed ideal human affinities with nature, the capacity of "e;the biophilia hypothesis"e; as an explanatory model of human/ environment relations is limited.

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Despite Kipling's popularity as an author and his standing as a politically controversial figure, much of his work has remained relatively unexamined due to its characterization as 'children's literature'.

In The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England, Holly Crawford Pickett reconceptualizes early modern religious identity by exploring the astonishing stories of serial converts: historical figures such as William Alabaster, Kenelm Digby, William Chillingworth, and Marc Antonio De Dominis, along with fictional ones, who changed their religious affiliations between Catholicism and Protestantism multiple times.

In November 1814, Jane Austen's niece Fanny Knight wrote Austen a letter secretly requesting advice.

In the medieval Low Countries (modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands), Arthurian romance flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Addiction Literature's Past and Present aims to realign consideration of addiction as a transhistorical and transcultural aspect of the human condition.

Political changes between 1918 and 1939 had important implications for German writers.

This book highlights the importance of global Anglophone literature in global health humanities, shaping perceptions of health issues in the Global South and among minorities in the Global North.

Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History offers the first extensive exploration of boy characters in Shakespeare's plays, examining a range of characters from across the Shakespearean canon in their original early modern contexts and surveying their subsequent performance histories on stage and screen from the Restoration until the present day.

Contemporary ideals of science representing disinterested and objective fields of investigation have their origins in the seventeenth century.

Only four Roman epic poems survive from the Flavian period (69-96 AD): Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica, Statius's Thebaid and Achilleid, and Silius Italicus's Punica.

The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.

The middlebrow is a dominant cultural force in the twenty-first century.

Das deviante weibliche Verhalten in der griechischen Tragödie wird in zwei Gruppen von Frauen gefasst, nämlich in Frauen, die von ihrer Gender-Rolle sich entfernen (s.

An account of the life and works of Petrarch, scholar and poet, and his influence on European literature and culture.

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Black Print Unbound explores the development of the Christian Recorder during and just after the American Civil War.

The Literature Workbook is a practical introductory textbook for literary studies, which can be used either for independent study or as part of a taught class.

Representations of violence surround us in everyday life - in news reports, films and novels - inviting interpretation and raising questions about the ethics of viewing or reading about harm done to others.

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Bergsonian "e;vitalism"e; challenged the dominance of Spencerian determinism in the early twentieth century and seemed to offer a new foundation for belief in human freedom and individual possibility.

Seitdem Theodor Mommsen 1847 seinen grundlegenden Akademieantrag für ein Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum vorlegte, haben sich die Methoden und Praktiken der Inschriftenedition in der Altertumskunde, auch abhängig von der Vielfalt der Inschriftengattungen, stark ausdifferenziert.

This book engages with the socio-cultural imaginings of Gandhi in literature, history, visual and popular culture.

This is the first critical study to offer a sustained analysis of the theme of cancer in contemporary poetry.

This book offers a comparative study of emotion in Arabic Islamic and English Christian contemplative texts, c.

Who are the most important Canadian crime and detective writers?

Though representations of alien languages on the early modern stage have usually been read as mocking, xenophobic, or at the very least extremely anxious, listening closely to these languages in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Marianne Montgomery discerns a more complex reality.

This unique study explores how Quebec's landscapes have been represented in both literature and visual art throughout the centuries, from the writing of early explorers such as Cartier and Champlain to work by prominent contemporary authors and artists from the province.