Literary studies: general

Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca.

First published in 1995, this title provides the reader with a compendium of useful information for any reader of George Herbert to have at hand.

'Sold, a legal prostitute' when married off at the age of fifteen, Charlotte Smith left her wastrel husband to support herself and their children as a poet and novelist who would have a lasting influence on William Wordsworth and Jane Austen.

Nutrition and Health is an easy-to-read introduction to the role of the human diet in maintaining a healthy body and preventing disease.

This volume considers the work and life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851).

You can never have too many vitamins, until they kill you.

While humility is not especially valued in modern Western culture, Jennifer Clement argues here, it is central to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century understandings of Christian faith and behavior, and is vital to early modern concepts of the self.

Joan-Pau Rubies brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture.

The philosopher Stanley Cavell once asked, "e;Can a human being be free of human nature?

This book makes newly visible the sustained engagement of the English and the Dutch throughout a critical century in their cultural and national development.

This book provides an introduction to literacy pedagogy within today''s new media environment.

Loathing, anger, shame and deep affection: Virginia Woolf s relationship with her servants was central to her life.

Die Kindler Kompakt Bände präsentieren in handlicher Form die 30-40 wichtigsten Autoren und Werke einer Literatur eines Jahrhunderts.

The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly significant impact on Anglo-American political theory.

In 1990 Herve Guibert gained wide recognition and notoriety with the publication of "e;A l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauve la vie (To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life)"e;.

This book is based on reviews and research presentations given at the 16th Rochester International Conference on Environmental Toxicity, entitled liThe Cytoskeleton: A Target for Toxic Agents,"e; held on June 4, 5 and 6 in 1984.

This book characterizes the major pollution patterns of emerging contaminants, such as sources, emission effluents, temporal and spatial distributions, multi-media transportation and transformation processes, exposure pathways to ecosystems and humans, and ecological risks.

This facsimile edition reproduces the extant works of the seventeenth-century poet, 'Ephelia'.

First published in 1994.

Modern Greece, constructed by the early nineteenth-century ideals and ideas associated with Byron, has been "e;haunted, holy ground"e; in English and American literature for almost two centuries.

Addressing a neglected aspect of John Clare's history, Sarah Houghton-Walker explores Clare's poetry within the framework of his faith and the religious context in which he lived.

This monograph provides an in-depth study into the issue of vernacular names in Old English documents.

Postcolonial Poetics is about how we read postcolonial and world literatures today, and about how the structures of that writing shape our reading.

Where Is All My Relation?

Wycliffite's theology and learning examined in the context of their physical appearance in contemporary books and manuscripts.

First published in 2001.

As both a politically engaged and stylistically versatile poet, W.

This book addresses the subject of violence as it features in celebrated modernist works from the early twentieth century.

This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This book shows how modernist poetry understood itself to be complicit in the social injustice and unhappiness of its time.

Selena Daly's work is the first comprehensive study of Futurism during the First World War period.

Le grand débat spirituel issu de Port-Royal est loin de se limiter au pré carré français.

Après mille jours d’incarcération dans les sordides prisons dominicaines, Pascal Fauret et Bruno Odos, anciens pilotes de la marine, sont injustement condamnés à vingt ans de réclusion.

Throughout his career, Derek Walcott turned to the literature and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome.

This second edition of The Sonnets features a new introduction by Stephen Orgel.

Little attention had been paid to the realities of life in the Savanna-Sahel of West Africa before the drought of 1968-74, but this book, originally published in 1984 provides a set of authoritative accounts of the way in which the inhabitants cope with what outsiders perceive as a harsh environment.

A comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen closely examines the films and TV shows centered on Greek and Roman cultures and explores the tension between pagan and Christian worlds.

In ten essays commissioned by the NutraSweet Company, contributors from the health and food sciences explain to the general consumer that nutrition is not as simple as some people make it out to be, and there are still questions about sugar, cholesterol, obesity, and other topics.