Biography, Literature and Literary studies

A subtle yet wide-ranging study confirming the importance of rhetoric in physicians'' rise to medical dominance and prestige.

An up-to-date survey of Shakespeare''s King Lear on screen and the aesthetic, social and political issues raised by screen versions.

Reveals the importance of Gellius'' Noctes Atticae for the history of reading, thought, and intellectual culture in the Graeco-Roman world.

Explores a literary translation dedicated more to the reader''s perception and experience of text than to textual interpretation.

Examines the practice and purposes of presenting the small-scale in literature, material culture and theories of cognition.

This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women''s literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration.

Shows that modernism was concocted out of surprising sources, and that one of them was Toryism during 1900–1920.

The first comprehensive study of the European book in the historical period known as the ''long twelfth century'' (1075–1225).

Shakespeare is both the world''s most quoted author and a frequent quoter himself.

Important intervention in Middle English studies that challenges widely accepted narratives on the identities of Chaucer''s scribes.

Reveals a rich cinematic history, discussing Hamlet films from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

Examines Christopher Marlowe and his work in the overlapping contexts of the professional theatre and the book trade.

A nuanced range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of emotions in moral and political reactions to mass violence.

The first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett''s prose and theatre.

Offers new ways to conceptualize the relationship between early modern travel and drama, and re-assesses how travel drama is defined.

Explores the reception of fifteenth-century English manuscripts and two generations of a Tudor family who owned and read them.

Provides an accessible mathematical and philosophical account of Quine''s set theory, New Foundations.

Ground-breaking study revealing the thrill and moral power of the ancient Roman story-world and its ancestral tales of bloody heroism.

Analysing how contemporary fiction explores climate change, Johns-Putra argues that literature can help us understand our obligations to the future.

Examination of literacy and reading habits in nineteenth-century Ireland and implications for an emerging cultural nationalism.

A wide-ranging study of violence in Latin literature, across the spectrum of texts and genres from Plautus to Prudentius.

Comprehensive survey of the conductus over a period of more than one hundred years, demonstrating how music and poetry interact.

Explores a vital aspect of British Romanticism, the role of illustration in Romantic-era literary texts and visual culture.

Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.

A wide-ranging exploration of women''s travel writing between 1714 and 1789, emphasising women''s contribution to processes of cultural change.

Explores the ways poets address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those killed in the First World War and beyond.

Explores the crucial role played by rhetorical education in turning Cicero into a literary and political symbol after his death.

A major critical reassessment of the fable and of the literary representation of the human-animal relationship after Darwin.

This detailed analysis of the evolution of the Bildungsroman genre is unprecedented in its historical and geographical range.

Proposes an original framework for comparative media research, and uses it to provide fascinating insights into television under communist rule.

Examines the performative aspects of prayer and how they were represented in literature in early modern England.

A history of the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage focusing on the vocal dimensions of theatrical performance.

This book approaches World Literature as an archive of strategies for resistance, and focuses on the nonstate organization of democratic processes.

Argues that the Exclusion Crisis of 1678–82 should be considered the watershed moment in Shakespeare''s authorial afterlife.

The first volume to consider how the context of early modern biblical interpretation shaped Shakespeare''s plays.

Shows how Joyce''s narrative styles and his protagonists'' perceptions are shaped by visual technologies, including dioramas, stereoscopes, mutoscopes and film.

Linking ecstasy with art and liberty, the book advances understanding of Renaissance literature as a field in the humanities today.

Explores the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a ''sister-art'' movement between creative visual art and its literary counterparts.

This book argues that the voice is a crucial link between bodies, thought, and mortal identity in the tragedies of Aeschylus.

This book offers new perspectives on race and transnationalism in nineteenth-century American literary studies.

Many of the finest critics working in American literature explore the representation of time from colonial times to the present.

Uses the idea of embodiment to reconceptualize postwar literary history and recognize the political significance of literary modernism after 1945.

Focusing on philosophical method in Augustine''s early dialogues, explains their pedagogical program and its relevance to current debates.

Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.

This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England.

A study of remembrance in post-Reformation England in religious and secular artworks and texts by Shakespeare, Milton, and women writers.

Robinson explains how poetry makes things happen through the interaction of its chosen words and forms with the reader''s responses.

A collection examining representations of the embodied self in the writings of Milton and his contemporaries.

A discussion of the connections between believing in Shakespeare''s play and a post-Reformation understanding of salvation.

Provides a novel account of how Shakespeare constructs his great tragic characters.