Biography, Literature and Literary studies

'Imagine eleven fields grouped around the houses, one hundred and eighty-six gently brae-set acres, sloping away to the south and west.

In this enchanting and moving memoir, Christina Hall writes with sharp observation about her childhood on the Hebridean island of SouthUist in the 1940s and 50s.

William McGonagall was born in Edinburgh in 1830.

Walter Smith was one of the most respected managers in British football.

Argues that Stoic thought on human responsibility and world fate plays a key role in the Aeneid''s characterisation and morality.

Traces the emergence of literary history, showing how Iranians and South Asians drew from their shared heritage to produce a ''Persianate modernity''.

This volume focuses on select contributions made to the Nepali periodical Chandrika, published in Kurseong, Darjeeling, India, from 1918 to 1919.

An engaging account of a neurologist''s experience with an Alzheimer''s diagnosis, a disease he spent decades treating in others.

There is a Great Teenage Myth alive in this world!

A literary and historical analysis of Urdu travel writing during the nineteenth century.

This volume focuses on select contributions made to the Nepali periodical Chandrika, published in Kurseong, Darjeeling, India, from 1918 to 1919.

A pioneering study of the aesthetic function of grotesque imagery in Roman love elegy.

Argues that the ephemeral appears in enduring forms through the body and inscribed texts in Greek poetry.

This book illuminates the genesis and development of modern war writing in relation to Romanticism, biopolitics and disciplinary theory.

Traces Fackenheim''s early concern with revelation and how it shifted to his later focus on the Holocaust (post-1967).

Comprehensive study of the concept of love in Shakespeare''s work, exploring historical contexts, theory and philosophy of love.

Draws on musicals, plays and experimental performances to show what theatre is made of and how we experience it.

Reveals the processes by which Ibsen''s drama, while firmly rooted in his Scandinavian origins, was appropriated by other European traditions.

Offers a radical re-appraisal of rhetoric''s relation to literature, with fresh insights into rhetorical sources and their reception in Roman poetry.

This volume reveals music''s role in Victorian liberalism and its relationship with literature, locating the Victorian salon within intellectual and cultural history.

The first study to systematically trace the impact of theatre on the emerging public of the early modern period.

This innovative book reconceptualises Roman poetry and its reception through the lens of fictional biography (''biofiction'').

This book highlights Ovid''s influence on important later Latin authors writing from the fourth to the sixth centuries in Europe and Africa.

This is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy.

This book analyses the ways contemporary fiction writers draw on Shakespeare - the man, his work and his cultural legacy.

Reveals the shaping influence of money and ritual on Greek tragedy, the New Testament, Indian philosophy, and Wagner.

Leading theorists share their important insights into the ongoing quest of theoretical physics to find a quantum theory of gravity.

Demonstrates the theological power of Pindar''s victory songs by interpreting them within their contemporary religious landscapes.

Two dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, Walker and Ghost Dance.

Argues that German classical philology personified antiquity and imagined scholarship as an inter-personal relationship with it.

Shows how the scientific question, ''Are we automata?

Groundbreaking study of the poet Simonides, approaching his work through intertextual readings of the fragments and his ancient reception.

Presents an interdisciplinary study of literary dialect and an argument for a mixed-method approach to digital research.

Presents a coherent model for understanding historical examples in Ancient Rome and their rhetorical, moral and historiographical functions.

Explores the hidden history of unbelief in the early modern era through the lens of Momus, the Greek god of criticism and mockery.

Explores the development of nineteenth-century performance copyright laws which shape how we define and value drama and music.

This study shows some of the ways in which medieval Scandinavians received and re-interpreted pre-Christian religion.

A wide-ranging and novel study of metaphor as the generative principle giving shape and substance to Eliot''s poetic imagination.

Levay analyzes representations of the criminal in British and American modernism from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s.

Presents an ecocritical study of poetic atmosphere, a concept first developed through Romanticism, particularly in the poetry of William Wordsworth.

Sidonius'' rich and varied letters recount the defining stories of Roman Gaul''s transition into the barbarian successor kingdoms.

Reveals that technology played a major role in modernism''s theory of the novel.

First dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare''s texts were read in the two centuries after they were produced.

Analyzes the poetics and story telling techniques of the fourth-century poet Claudian as tools of Late Antique political propaganda.

Detailed study of the action of discovery as plot device, visual motif, and thematic trope on the early modern stage.

This book establishes surprise as a key Emersonian affect, and demonstrates its significance for transatlantic modernism and the philosophy of pragmatism.

Presents the first full-length, systematic study of the reception of Cicero''s speeches in the Roman educational system.

Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.

Animal Subjects finds a new understanding of animal life in the literature and science of the early twentieth century.