Literature: history and criticism

Explores the ways poets address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those killed in the First World War and beyond.

Explores the crucial role played by rhetorical education in turning Cicero into a literary and political symbol after his death.

A major critical reassessment of the fable and of the literary representation of the human-animal relationship after Darwin.

This detailed analysis of the evolution of the Bildungsroman genre is unprecedented in its historical and geographical range.

Proposes an original framework for comparative media research, and uses it to provide fascinating insights into television under communist rule.

Examines the performative aspects of prayer and how they were represented in literature in early modern England.

A history of the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage focusing on the vocal dimensions of theatrical performance.

This book approaches World Literature as an archive of strategies for resistance, and focuses on the nonstate organization of democratic processes.

Argues that the Exclusion Crisis of 1678–82 should be considered the watershed moment in Shakespeare''s authorial afterlife.

The first volume to consider how the context of early modern biblical interpretation shaped Shakespeare''s plays.

Shows how Joyce''s narrative styles and his protagonists'' perceptions are shaped by visual technologies, including dioramas, stereoscopes, mutoscopes and film.

Linking ecstasy with art and liberty, the book advances understanding of Renaissance literature as a field in the humanities today.

Explores the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a ''sister-art'' movement between creative visual art and its literary counterparts.

This book argues that the voice is a crucial link between bodies, thought, and mortal identity in the tragedies of Aeschylus.

This book offers new perspectives on race and transnationalism in nineteenth-century American literary studies.

Many of the finest critics working in American literature explore the representation of time from colonial times to the present.

Uses the idea of embodiment to reconceptualize postwar literary history and recognize the political significance of literary modernism after 1945.

Focusing on philosophical method in Augustine''s early dialogues, explains their pedagogical program and its relevance to current debates.

Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.

This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England.

A study of remembrance in post-Reformation England in religious and secular artworks and texts by Shakespeare, Milton, and women writers.

Robinson explains how poetry makes things happen through the interaction of its chosen words and forms with the reader''s responses.

A collection examining representations of the embodied self in the writings of Milton and his contemporaries.

A discussion of the connections between believing in Shakespeare''s play and a post-Reformation understanding of salvation.

Provides a novel account of how Shakespeare constructs his great tragic characters.

This comprehensive study of musical notation from early medieval Europe provides a crucial new foundational model for understanding later Western notations.

First full-length study of the mouth''s centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual ''good'' in Middle English literature.

Argues that eighteenth-century literature defined itself as ''English'' and ''modern'' by engaging with debates about Chinese history and culture.

This book combines book history and literary criticism to explore how early modern books were richer things than previously imagined.

An ambitious, revisionary study of not only Herman Melville''s political philosophy, but also of our own deeply inhuman condition.

Offers fresh understanding of British Romanticism by exploring how anxieties about decline impacted debates about literature''s form and meaning.

The first holistic study of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96–138).

Explores the failure of Romantic critiques of political economy, and the diminishing importance of aesthetic consciousness across the nineteenth century.

A major illustrated collection offering a fresh interdisciplinary reading of Chinese women''s periodicals and history in the long twentieth century.

This book shows how love between men has a rich history in English literature, and explores why these same-sex friendships are memorable.

A study of the tradition in nineteenth-century thought that imagines the body as one of the reproductive media of poetry.

Traces the practice of induction - manipulating textual evidence by selective quotation - and its uses by Romantic-period writers.

This book explores how and why reading was taught in the eighteenth century, exploring different teaching methods in social and economic context.

Explores fundamental questions of human will and action in early modern theology and literature.

Provides twenty-first century readers with a new, comprehensive and suggestive account of the sentimental novel in the eighteenth century.

Connects American poetry to the emergence of the United States as the leading global economic and political power.

The Poetics of Insecurity explores how American literary writers forged a cultural imaginary in which insecurity acts as an enlivening force.

This book shows that a distinct form of technological madness emerged within modernist culture, transforming much of the period''s experimental fiction.

This book examines the widespread use of postapocalyptic fantasies in American literary texts in the early nineteenth century.

The first comprehensive introduction in English to books, readers and reading in Byzantium and the wider medieval world surrounding it.

Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century.

Suicide Century investigates suicide as an increasingly ''normalised'' but still deeply traumatic and profoundly baffling act in twentieth-century writing.

The first in-depth exploration of Borges'' classicism and a major contribution to the field of global classics and Borges studies.

The first comprehensive study of how Shakespeare designed his plays to suit his playing company.

Explores how Propertius'' third book re-invents Latin love-elegy for the reality of Rome''s new imperial age.