Biography, Literature and Literary studies

"e;The image of the Jew in English literature, as in the Western imagination, has at its base the figure of the Christ-killer.

Victorian England: a Jesuit priest writes of wrestling with God at night, limbs entangled; an Anglican sister begs Jesus, her divine lover, to end her aching anticipation of their union; a clergyman exhorts nuns to study the example of medieval women who suffered on the rack in order to become "e;brides"e; of Christ.

This compendium of fables in visual form features women negotiating different types of gender-based violence and inequity in various cultures worldwide.

Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685-1720 uses the experiences of Samuel Wesley (1662-1735) to examine what life was like in the Church of England for Tory High Church clergy.

WHO IS STIEG LARSSON?

In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university.

A powerful collection from Frank X Walker, winner of the 2005 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry.

This book closely examines the mother figure in six works by African American women at various times in American history: Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces, Nella Larsen's Passing, Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison's Beloved.

This book focuses on the ways in which second-wave feminism has been represented in American popular culture, and on the effects that these representations have had on feminism as a political movement.

At a juncture in which art and culture are saturated with the forces of commodification, this book argues that problems, forms, and positions that defined modernism are crucially relevant to the condition of contemporary art and culture.

This book argues that Milton used innovative and cunning means to persuade readers in an age distrustful of traditional rhetoric.

Globally, cereal grains are a staple part of the diet providing primarily carbohydrates and other phytochemical components.

Shenoute of Atripe led the White Monastery, a community of several thousand male and female Coptic monks in Upper Egypt, between approximately 395 and 465 C.

What became of Erasmus' books?

This book is an excellent introduction to the individuals, events and currents which shaped medieval English mystical texts.

The influences of William Wordsworth's writing and evolutionary theory-the nineteenth century's two defining visions of nature-conflicted in the Victorian period.

Contemporary children's literature in Bangla celebrates irreverent, defiant and deviant boys whose subversive doings critique the parenting and schooling they go through, while the girl child is neglected and marginalised.

Across the Board is the definitive work on chessboard problems.

Charles Meeres served on the Western Front between 1915 and 1918.

God is the original poet--such that much of the Bible expresses eternal truth in beautifully indirect ways.

Forthright, sensitive, and compelling (Edan Lepucki, New York Times bestselling author of California), this heartrending memoir from journalist Sarah Tomlinson recounts her unconventional upbringing and coming-of-age as colored by her complicated relationship with her father.

GREEK DRAMA and the Invention of Rhetoric An impressively erudite, elegantly crafted argument for reversing what everybody knows about the relation of two literary genres that played before mass audiences in the Athenian city state.

Women's Manga in Asia and Beyond offers a variety of perspectives on women's manga and the nature, scope, and significance of the relationship between women and comics/manga, both globally as well as locally.

Miriam Gamble's second collection takes its title from unlicensed broadcasting.

In this fascinating and revealing book, first published in 1968, Maxwell examines the life and work of Herman Melville.

This book explores the adaptation and appropriation of a range of canonical and lesser-known British and Irish novels of the eighteenth century.

This title was first published in 2003.

Much good criticism of Mrquez came in the wake of One Hundred Years of Solitude and the perception of his fiction has been dominated by that novel.

In this collection of essays, biographies and Nobel lectures, ten Nobel Laureates from five continents give various and startling perspectives on current questions about modernity and tradition, unity and diversity, integration, identity, integrity, gender and sexual roles in a multicultural world of change.

Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in Southeast Asian studies, is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991).

Présent auprès de la population, Moly s’est fixé un objectif : mener des actions de bienfaisance, malgré l’indifférence générale.

Look at me.

A Times Political Book of the Year 2022A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war's echoing legacy.

The potential duality of human character and its capacity for dissembling was a source of fascination to the Elizabethan dramatists.

Schiller ist ein Meister der theatralischen Performanz.

Exploiting a link between early modern concepts of the medical and the literary, David Houston Wood suggests that the recent critical attention to the gendered, classed, and raced elements of the embodied early modern subject has been hampered by its failure to acknowledge the role time and temporality play within the scope of these admittedly crucial concerns.

Strange Likeness provides the first full account of how Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) was rediscovered by twentieth-century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONWATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: HISTORYThe boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men.

The late Norman Rich (1921-2020) was an internationally recognized scholar of European history who taught at Brown University and Michigan State University, among other places.

This unique collection of extracts is taken from women's journals and magazines - both British and American - on the eve of the twentieth century.