Literary Studies: General
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- Literary Studies: 16th To 18th Centuries
- Literary Studies: 19th Century
- Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval
- Literary Studies: From C 1900 -
New Publications
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Manekine, John and Blonde, and "Foolish Generosity" by Philippe De Remi
(Hardback 232 pages)Philippe de Remi (1200/1210-65) holds a remarkable position in the legacy of the thirteenth-century literary world. This title presents a translation of three of Read more...
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A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction by Frederick Luis Aldama
(Hardback 192 pages)Emphasizes how postcolonial and Latino borderland narrative fiction authors and artists use narrative devices to create their aesthetic blueprints in ways that loosely Read more...
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Shakespeare and Moral Agency
(Hardback 208 pages)Presents a collection of essays considering character and action in Shakespeare's plays as heuristic models for the exploration of salient problems in the field of moral Read more...
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Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre by Keith Gregor
(Hardback 192 pages)A monograph on Shakespeare's reception in Spain. It offers an overview of Shakespeare's place in Spain's complex and vibrant culture. Read more...
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Ovid: Ars Amatoria, Book III by Ovid
First full-scale commentary emphasising the poem's didactic elements and its treatment of women. Read more...
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Flawed Light by Brett Candlish Millier
(Hardback 168 pages)The history of heavy-drinking poets in the twentieth century tilts disproportionately toward male writers. Women poets, however, were just as susceptible to alcohol. Read more...
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The Oxford Handbook of Milton
(Hardback 722 pages)Four hundred years after his birth, John Milton remains one of the greatest and most controversial figures in English literature. The Oxford Handbook of Milton is a Read more...
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Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature by Sharon Cadman Seelig
(Paperback 224 pages)This important contribution to early modern literary studies and gender studies illuminates the interactions between literature and autobiography. Read more...
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Democracy, Law and the Modernist Avant-Gardes by Sascha Bru
(Hardback 288 pages)This is the first book to look at the ties between European modernism and democracy in a cross-cultural manner. Read more...
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Henry James, Women and Realism by Victoria Coulson
(Paperback 250 pages)A biographical and critical account of the influence of James's female friends on his work. Read more...
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Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature by Bernadette Andrea
(Paperback 195 pages)An exploration of writings about the Ottoman Empire and other Islamic countries by women of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Read more...
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Beckett and Death
(Hardback 240 pages)Death is indisputably central to Beckett's writing and reception. This collection of research considers a number of Beckett's poems, novels, plays and short stories Read more...
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Religion, Literature and the Imagination
(Hardback 208 pages)Offers insight into the role that the religious imagination plays in the creation of sacred worlds. Covering foundational questions regarding the relation between words Read more...
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The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness by Tabish Khair
(Hardback 208 pages)A lucid intervention in current debates about identity and difference, this book uses the concept of Otherness to look again at both Gothic fiction and Postcolonialism. Read more...
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Community, Myth and Recognition in 20Th Century French Literature and Thought by Nikolaj Lubecker
(Hardback 192 pages)Taking as its point of departure the notion of community in mid-twentieth century French literature and thought, this study seeks to uncover the ways in which Breton, Read more...
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Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century by Katharine Gillespie
(Paperback 288 pages)Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom. Read more...
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Enacting History in Henry James
(Paperback 233 pages)A fresh look by leading scholars at the way issues of truth, history and power circulate in James's texts. Read more...
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Gender and the Formation of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Robert W. Jones
(Paperback 280 pages)The concept of beauty in the eighteenth century, explored through philosophical texts, novels and art. Read more...
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The Geography of Empire in English Literature, 1580-1745 by Bruce McLeod
(Paperback 296 pages)Ambitious exploration of the adventure and geography of empire in the works of English writers. Read more...
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Henry James and the Father Question by Andrew Taylor
(Paperback 248 pages)Andrew Taylor explores the intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father. Read more...
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A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry by Jane Dowson & Alice Entwistle
(Paperback 403 pages)An invaluable and detailed critical analysis and record of a lively but undervalued literary community. Read more...
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Intermodernism
(Hardback 272 pages)This collection of original critical essays launches an ambitious, long-term project marking out a new period and style in twentieth-century literary history. Read more...
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Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations by Lucia Boldrini
(Paperback 245 pages)Boldrini examines how Dante's literary and linguistic theories helped shape Joyce's radical narrative techniques. Read more...
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Joyce, Race and 'Finnegans Wake' by Len Platt
(Paperback 224 pages)Platt places Finnegans Wake in precise historical conditions and explores Joyce's engagement with European fascism. Read more...
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The Mind and Art of Calderon by Alexander Augustine Parker
(Paperback 431 pages)Professor Parker's essays provide a wide-ranging survey of the work of Calderon, the greatest exponent of Spanish Golden Age drama. Read more...
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Reading and Fiction in Golden-Age Spain by B.W. Ife
(Paperback 221 pages)Dr Ife here examines the connection between the objections to Spanish Golden Age fiction and those raised two thousand years earlier by Plato. Read more...
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Renaissance Transformations
(Hardback 224 pages)A collection of distinctive new essays that explore the dynamic cultural, intellectual and social processes that shaped literary writing in the Renaissance. Read more...
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Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property by Kevin Hart
(Paperback 250 pages)A study of the making of the literary legacy and reputation of Samuel Johnson. Read more...
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Seneca and Celestina by Louise Fothergill-Payne
(Paperback 190 pages)This book examines the reason and intent behind the many Senecan and pseudo-Senecan quotations in Fernando de Rojas' masterpiece Celestina. Read more...
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Sur by John King
(Paperback 240 pages)This book tells the story of Sur, Argentina's foremost literary and cultural journal of the twentieth century. Read more...
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T.S. Eliot and the Concept of Tradition
(Paperback 245 pages)A reappraisal of the afterlife of Eliot's reformulation of the idea of literary tradition. Read more...
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge by Montague Rhodes James
(Paperback 628 pages)M.R. James's much-sought-after descriptive catalogue of the manuscript collection in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Read more...
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The Eighteenth-Century Literature Handbook
(Hardback 256 pages)Presents an introduction to literature and culture in the eighteenth century. This book includes introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key critics, Read more...
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Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure by Tessa Hadley
(Paperback 216 pages)An examination of James's representation of the privileges and pains of turn-of-the-century society. Read more...
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Horace Made New
(Paperback 360 pages)Collection of essays exploring Horace's place in English literature and culture. Read more...
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John Milton's Aristocratic Entertainments by Cedric C. Brown
(Paperback 230 pages)This book is a comprehensive account of Milton's two aristocratic entertainments, Arcades and Comus. Read more...
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Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature by Brian C. Lockey
(Paperback 248 pages)A study of the role literature played in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. Read more...
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Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England by Susannah Brietz Monta
(Paperback 256 pages)A comprehensive comparison of the representations of early modern Protestant and Catholic martyrs. Read more...
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Milton and the Idea of the Fall by William Poole
(Paperback 256 pages)A reading of Milton's writing on the Fall of man in its theological and historical context. Read more...







