Literature: history and criticism

Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature explores the crucial role of paper in the early history of books and of English literature.

This book investigates the triadic constellations between ritual, family, and therapy in literature in English.

This book provides an overview of AI-powered nutritional interventions for the management of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS).

This book explores the construction of the fin-de-siècle adventure hero: set against a romanticised vision of the past and a nostalgic ideal of gentlemanliness, but also forward-looking in terms of forging a future for Britain through the imperialist dream.

This book presents the latest information on the biomolecules derived from the coconut and their prominent roles in human well-being.

The project offers a collection of new interdisciplinary critical autoethnographic engagements with Helene Cixous ecriture feminine and work Three steps on the ladder of writing.

The project offers a collection of new interdisciplinary critical autoethnographic engagements with Helene Cixous ecriture feminine and work Three steps on the ladder of writing.

A great deal has been written about early modern temporality, both by scholars of Renaissance drama and historians of chronometry.

Walter Benjamin is one of the most influential authors in contemporary humanities, exerting a deep fascination for students and garnering scholarly interest in a variety of fields, such as history of philosophy, literature, film and media studies, political science, religion, architecture, art and history.

This book examines for the first time how ancient Egypt is reflected in early modern Venetian sources.

This book delivers a powerful argument for the centrality of sport in culture, exploring how fine sports writing bestows meaning upon the human world.

This edited book brings together a diverse group of environmental science, sustainability, and health researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by heavy metals contamination of soil and plants.

This book presents evidence-based translational research in Nutri-Ayur through the integration of traditional knowledge of Ayurveda, Genomics, and modern medicine.

This book introduces a pathbreaking approach called ‘Avoidable Disaster Deaths’ (ADD) to reduce disaster deaths.

This book considers how the presence or absence of writing can influence a culture’s distinctive styles of visual art, proposing that many of the most profound developments in the art world are directly correlative with a cultural transition from orality to literacy (that is, from a culture which only has a spoken form of language, to one which has both a spoken and written form).

Explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts.

The first account of the bilingualism of English poetic culture from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.

Erzählen ist eine Alltagspraxis und zugleich eine Praxis, in der Alltag (re-)produziert wird.

This book examines the history of aging and old age during the Qing dynasty, a pivotal period marked by rapid population growth that resulted in the largest elderly population in imperial China.

This book covers sugar, salt and milk fat from a chemical perspective, and presents an overview of the role of these ingredients in our food, focusing on their flavors, satiety-inducing properties, nutritional impact, and health effects.

This book adopts a transatlantic approach to consider literature and cultural products produced by authors confronted with the experience of migration, working from or looking in the direction of the Global North.

This book delivers a powerful argument for the centrality of sport in culture, exploring how fine sports writing bestows meaning upon the human world.

This edited volume celebrates cutting-edge research in stylistics and, more specifically, recent work on sense and the senses.

This book provides a unique analysis of how the History of Science became institutionalized in Latin America during the last two decades of the 20th century.

This book consists of well-chosen legal terms in ancient China, in an effort to delineate the panorama of rule-of-law evolution in China.

A brand-new book from the bestselling author of A Series of Unfortunate Events a cautionary tale about his own demise.

A beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination.

Apples and Ashes offers the first literary history of the Civil War South.

This book provides a unique analysis of how the History of Science became institutionalized in Latin America during the last two decades of the 20th century.

In 1844, Lydia Sigourney asserted, "e;Man's warfare on the trees is terrible.

In her biography of writer Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964, nee Mary Flannery), Mary Carpenter introduces young readers to one of the most renowned American authors.

Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation.

My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light.