Literature: history and criticism

After he was handed an old broken-down bamboo fly rod, Frank Soos waited several years before he cautiously undertook its restoration.

Jay Watson argues that southern literary studies has been overidealized and dominated by intellectual history for too long.

"e;We're seeing people that we didn't know exist,"e; the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Many metal songs incorporate poetry into their lyrics using a broad array of techniques, both textual and musical.

Explores how cultural memory theory intersects with the literature, politics, history, and archaeology of Republican and Augustan Rome.

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.

A provocative examination of how Romantic imaginings of the end of the world shaped thinking about politics and political change.

This book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature and overturns longstanding views.

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

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

This book addresses the health status of both mothers and children, highlighting acute malnutrition through anthropometric indices such as weight-for-height, weight-for-age, height-for-age, and BMI.

There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between political thought and the interpretation of literature, but there remains a need for a book that both introduces and significantly contributes to the field - particularly one that shows in detail how we can think more freely and creatively about political possibilities by reading and reflecting on politically significant literature.

This book delivers an outline to graduate, undergraduate students, and researchers, as well as academicians who are working on lead toxicity with respect to remediation.

This book charts the development of creative writing, bringing it from China to the world.

This book presents a comprehensive forensic analysis of an oil painting depicting a Madonna and Child in a tondo format, previously thought to be a Victorian copy.

The 1920s London-Irish Theatre: A History documents, explores and interrogates the Irish theatre that was prevalent in London during the 1920s.

This book describes the basic concepts and recent advances in new discoveries and technologies related to microbial omics and their role in environmental research and human health.

This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature of the Chinese state as a contender state and its global positioning since 1912.

Despite the increased demand for traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine (TCIM) therapies by patients around the world, current guidelines, regulations, and research for TCIM therapies are lacking.

This book connects recent developments in speculative realism, new materialism, and eco-phenomenology to articulate an approach to wonder that escapes the connected traps of anthropocentrism and correlationism.

Fiction classified as ‘neo-Victorian’ has steadily emerged as a crucial mode of British cultural production.

Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet from an ecological perspective.

Giving Voice to Exile in Literature: The Burdens and Privileges of Inheritance aims to provide undergraduate, graduate and professional readers with a nuanced understanding of how the unique status of exile, issues of displacement, complexities of cultural identity formation, the state of in-betweenness (liminality), and alienation shape fundamental human experiences.

The latter half of the seventeenth century was a time of great social and political upheaval, reflected in the literature of the period in a way which is often bewildering to the modern reader.

This book brings new perspectives and insights to the discipline of translation studies at a time when Western theories dominate its main discourse.

This book is grounded in the belief that every nation had its own 'Great War', and that children's picture books are an important barometer of each country's national approach.

Written in a clear and accessible style, Stylistics, Third Edition is a comprehensive resource which covers all the major theories, concepts and methods required for the investigation of language in literature.