Literary studies: general books

This book helps students and teachers make sense of the scope and complexity of the relationships between poetry...  Read More >>

Readers are essential agents in the production of bestsellers but bestsellers are not essential to readers' leisure...  Read More >>

People learn by imitating other people. Authors do the same. This book explains how authors from the earliest stages...  Read More >>

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With this groundbreaking study, Melissa Bailes renovates understandings of sensibility and its importance to the...  Read More >>

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""Originally published in by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK., in London in 2022.""  Read More >>

A book of social commentary informed by the history of England. It forms an analysis of the problems of newly industrialized...  Read More >>

Bringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigate the provenance...  Read More >>

This book investigates the Royal Society’s relations with Italy through a socio-historical and critical linguistic...  Read More >>

This book helps students and teachers make sense of the scope and complexity of the relationships between poetry...  Read More >>

This volume brings together work by established and emerging scholars to consider the work and impact of Bhai Vir...  Read More >>

Greek poetry invented ephemerality as a mark of the human condition and introduced materials for confronting it....  Read More >>

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This volume explores a range of English verse from 1400 to 1500. It studies specific genres and modes of fifteenth-century...  Read More >>

The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published...  Read More >>

"In recent years, the focus in historical studies has moved away from asking what knowledge ancient people produced...  Read More >>

Presenting a variety of methods for teaching book history both as its own subject and as an approach to other material,...  Read More >>

For almost two centuries, Shakespeare had no biography. Neither did his life have a timeline, and historians and...  Read More >>

In her seminal study The Power of Thetis (1991), Laura Slatkin masterfully read Thetis, divine mother to the hero...  Read More >>

This volume illuminates the identification of marginalized individuals and groups in Neronian and Flavian Rome,...  Read More >>

Ancient epistolary fiction is still largely under-explored. This book ventures into its various landscapes, its...  Read More >>

In 2016 the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Max Brod's posthumous papers which included some of Kafka's manuscripts...  Read More >>

With this groundbreaking study, Melissa Bailes renovates understandings of sensibility and its importance to the...  Read More >>

Der Sammelband beschäftigt sich mit Formationen des Ähnlichkeitsdenkens, das in Lyrik und Poetik der Gegenwart Gestalt...  Read More >>