Literary studies: general books

Fully transcribed and edited here for the first time, Dorothy Percy Sidney's letters eloquently convey how intensely...  Read More >>

Focusing on Tudor prose fiction from Malory's Morte D'Arthur through the works of Sir Philip Sidney and Thomas Nashe,...  Read More >>

In her study of late eighteenth-century women novelists, Woodworth argues that women writers' ideas about their...  Read More >>

In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Inspired...  Read More >>

Bringing together children’s literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction...  Read More >>

In exploring the exceptionally well-documented activities of Aemilia Juliana of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1637-1706),...  Read More >>

Overshadowed in the popular imagination by the figure of Oliver Cromwell, historians are increasingly coming to...  Read More >>

In the first full-length study devoted to John Lowin, Wooding provides a comprehensive overview of the life and...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary collection of twelve essays, Romanticism/Judaica explores the four major areas of intersection:...  Read More >>

Picturing Scotland examines the genesis and production of the first author-approved illustrations for Sir Walter...  Read More >>

In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership of ‘Mother Ann’...  Read More >>

The narrative presented here is a rare, detailed autobiographical account of one woman's experience of mental disorder...  Read More >>

Autism, Down syndrome, and other such labels assume that 'intellectual disability' is a permanent aspect of human...  Read More >>

In his study of the Tangier expatriate community at the end of the colonial era, Walonen analyses representations...  Read More >>

In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership of ‘Mother Ann’...  Read More >>

Should we assume that people who lived some time ago were quite similar to us or should we assume that they need...  Read More >>

Proposing the concept of transformation as a key to understanding Victorian literature, this collection focuses...  Read More >>

The comic reform plot was not merely a generic turn towards morality or sentimentality, Gollapudi argues, but an...  Read More >>

At the turn of the seventeenth century, Hristomir Stanev argues, ideas about the senses became part of a dramatic...  Read More >>

In her study of the challenges, preoccupations, and disordered circumstances that attended Great Britain’s amassing...  Read More >>

This collection of published papers on the development of the publishing cycle from author to reader includes work...  Read More >>

Brought to light in this study is a connection between the treatment of war in Shakespeare's plays, and the issue...  Read More >>

Through a series of close readings of selected short poems and Lydgate's Troy Book, Fall of Princes, and Siege of...  Read More >>

The virgin martyr vitae in Ælfric's Old English Lives of Saints recount the stories of young women who renounce...  Read More >>

The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well...  Read More >>