Biography, Literature and Literary studies

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.

A unique account of everyday life under the Third Reich and one man''s opposition to the Nazi regime.

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.

Reveals the rich emotional experience of teaching and learning as revealed in Anglo-Saxon literature.

Significant study of colonial Caribbean literatures in the context of the high rates of disease and death in the region.

Investigates the representation of the Carthaginian enemy and the revisionist history of the Punic Wars in Virgil''s Aeneid.

This book re-orientates the relationship between urbanization and English Romantic poetry by focusing on urban aspects of Romantic poems.

Investigates the idea of the human within Brontë sisters'' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.

Brings the voices of Roman slaves in early comedy to the history of theater and the history of slavery.

This book analyzes how African literary texts have engaged with pressing ecological problems in Africa.

Explores the journalism and fiction appearing in the early Victorian working-class periodical press and its influence on mainstream literature.

Explores imagination and human rationality in a crucial period of philosophy, from hermeneutics and transcendental logic to ethics and aesthetics.

The first comprehensive study of the Brienne dynasty, a fascinating example of the international aristocracy in the central Middle Ages.

Examines Dante''s reception in the culture and criticism of Renaissance Italy, with a particular focus on Florence and Venice.

This book discusses the nature of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature and culture through the figure of the military man.

Shows how illustrated editions and paintings of the plays were originally produced and read as critical, social and political statements.

Brings ''new formalist'' approaches to Chaucer, focusing on formal agency, bodies, disability, ethics, poetics, reception, and scale.

Playful, popular visions of ruined cities demonstrate antiquity''s starring role in nineteenth-century culture, developing new models for understanding classical reception.

Re-examines Aristophanes'' engagement with Greek religion by studying his dramatization of traditional stories of religious experiences.

Illuminates the relationships between Lucilius'' satires and the Roman world in which he wrote, by combining linguistic and literary approaches.

This first full-length study of modern British nature writing is timely and invaluable for literary scholarship in the environmental crisis.

Shows that Homer was a philosophic thinker who played a crucial role in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche.

Introduces a little-known text and shows how Classical culture and Bible heroes helped Christians conceptualize Jewish history in late antiquity.

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The first full-length study to uncover the profound impact of early modern musical culture on George Herbert''s religious verse.

Comparatively studies, through both form and content, the development of Arabic and Persian modernist poetry during the mid-twentieth century.

The inspiring story of 162 US paratroopers, dropped hopelessly off target, and the French villagers who assisted and supported them.