Literary studies: general

A form of courtesy literature, Mother's Advice Books were texts written by mothers to instruct their children in religious, educational, and occasionally wordly matters.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was the author of nearly fifty books and numerous essays, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World.

This book offers a bold new view of the way in which modernist fiction, painting, music, and poetry are interlinked.

This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade.

Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre.

Der russisch-jüdische Dichter Ossip Mandelstam, 1891 in Warschau geboren, ist einer der bedeutendsten Lyriker des 20.

This volume explores how twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary texts engage with relationships between humans and other animals.

Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

The concept of a personal identity was a contentious issue in the early eighteenth century.

Clouds above the Hill, a long-time best-selling novel in Japan, is now translated into English for the first time.

The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it.

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Reverberations of the Vietnam War can still be felt in American culture.

In early modern Spain, the strict definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman of Catholic faith for the sole purpose of procreation became a key strategy in the production of Spain's version of empire, the Universal Catholic Monarchy.

This collection of recent essays on James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, provides an up-to-date overview of debates in Joycean scholarship, with particular emphasis on gender, postcolonial and ideological critiques, and deconstructive readings.

First published in 2012.

The eighteenth century is renowned for the publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, which reference sources still call the first English dictionary.

Grounded in historical sources and informed by recent work in cultural, sociological, geographical and spatial studies, Romantic Geography illuminates the nexus between imaginative literature and geography in William Wordsworth's poetry and prose.

A History of the Hellenistic World provides an engaging look at the Macedonian monarchies in the period following the reign of Alexander the Great, and examines their impact on the Greek world.

King John's evil reputation has outlasted and proved more enduring than that of Richard III, whose notoriety seemed ensured thanks to Shakespeare's portrayal of him.

Since Ovid, the concept of metamorphosis has been an irresistible temptation for writers, not only as a metaphor for shifting personal identity but as a way of exploring ideas of cultural and political transition.

This volume on medicinal foods from the sea narrates the bioactive principles of various marine floral (vertebrate and Invertebrate), faunal (Macro and Micro algal) and microbial sources.

Suicide : à lui seul le mot suscite l’effroi, la peur et la honte.

The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students.

"e;In the landscape of the early modern European comic novel the inn often features as a monument to digression - the perfect setting for chance encounters with strangers who always have a story to tell.

Haruki Murakami, a global literary phenomenon, has said that he started writing fiction as a means of self-therapy.

This study examines the genesis of Chicago's two identified literary renaissance periods (1890-1920 and 1930-1950) through the writings of Dreiser, Hughes, Wright, and Farrell.

Creative Lives and Works: Adrian C.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the complete works of Wilkie Collins's.

Francisco de la Torre has long been praised as an outstanding poet in the mould of Garcilaso de la Vega and his simplicity of style and soft, gentle, Arcadian environment of his poetry have been emphasized.

By the time of his death in 2018, Tom Murphy was widely recognised as one of Ireland's most important modern playwrights.

This book examines the discourses on ageing and ageism in Indian culture, politics, art and society.

Drawing on diverse theories and methods, this collective volume emphasizes the multi-ethnic and transnational aspects of southern literature over a four hundred-year period.

This book explores the Catholic aesthetic and mystical dimensions in KateChopin's fiction within the context of an evolving American Catholicism in thelate nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Addresses the many facets of Samuel Taylor Coleridge''s life and work.

Shaw provides both the Gaelic texts and English translations.

Shakespeare Between the World Wars draws parallels between Shakespearean scholarship, criticism, and production from 1920 to 1940 and the chaotic years of the Interwar era.

King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied plays - seen as one of the most significant and universal tragedies of all time.

This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment.

Uses recent thought in continental philosophy and postmodern theology to interpret hidden and contradictory 'god-ideas' in texts of modernism such as Henry James's The Golden Bowl , Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time , James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man , and Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron .

In her study of the unsuccessful nineteenth-century emigrant, Tamara S.

This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century.

First Published in 2002.

This is a biographical account of Yeats' life detailing his early family life, his schooldays, his London years, his rise to literary fame, his relationships and marriage, his Oxford period and his career in public life.

Updated edition of The Cambridge Companion to Brecht, introducing new voices and themes.

This is the second of a pair of volumes publishing the unedited full reports of Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions.

This book provides provocative information on poetry written in response to the most revolutionary set of events seen in Britain since the 1640s: 'Peterloo', a peaceful protest that became a massacre; 'Cato Street', a government scripted rebellion; and the 'Queen Caroline Controversy', when the estranged wife of George IV tried to claim her crown.

Originally published in 1970, John Lydgate sets out to restore a sense of perspective to the work of Lydgate, not by attributing a spurious modernity as a precursor of the Renaissance, but by accepting the fact that he is fundamentally medieval.