Literary studies: general books

The Fairy Tale World takes a uniquely global perspective, and broadens the international, cultural and critical...  Read More >>

This is the second volume of the complete poems of Shelley. It includes all the known poems fully annotated and...  Read More >>

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Technology provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the dynamically...  Read More >>

This work presents a philological study of the Corbierian text, its punctuation, its style of spelling, and various...  Read More >>

Rabelais's work is peppered with references and quotations taken from the Bible. From this traditional typology,...  Read More >>

This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic...  Read More >>

This work consists of more than 180--mostly unpublished--prefaces to eighteenth-century novels. The generous accompanying...  Read More >>

"The studies gathered in this volume aim to clarify the status of literary people in the eighteenth century and...  Read More >>

Adolph von Knigge's work draws on a real event-Jean-Pierre Blanchard's ascent by balloon in August 1788--and the...  Read More >>

"Written if not day by day then at least in temporal continuity, as the name ""historical diary"" would have it,...  Read More >>

A short pamphlet defending a lost cause, the Voyage merveilleux du prince Fan-Feredin sparked a great debate on...  Read More >>

Freed by birth from all forms of prejudice, Imirce is both Candide (innocent) and Ingenu(e) (naive). As she explores...  Read More >>

Widely read and distributed, the Almanach parisien is a revelatory text on uses of the city during the Enlightenment....  Read More >>

The impact of the Etudes de la nature on French literature and philosophy is largely overlooked today. The edition...  Read More >>

The texts in this collection shine light on the origins of the first European periodicals, their sources, their...  Read More >>

The notes taken by the diplomat Charles-Etienne Coquebert de Montbret during his journey from Paris to Dublin in...  Read More >>

It is neither ideological nor documentary relevance that make this story unforgettable-this is accomplished rather...  Read More >>

"Using a surprising approach, this collection demonstrates the literary practices and obsessions of an era, all...  Read More >>

This work consists of more than 180--mostly unpublished--prefaces to eighteenth-century novels. The generous accompanying...  Read More >>

Jean-Marie-Jerome Fleuriot de Langle, a contemporary of Beaumarchais and Chateaubriand, is not exactly a literary...  Read More >>

The rich production of novels in France within this short period, which precedes not only the ban on novels but...  Read More >>

This work brings together all the writings related to the dispute that followed the first performance of the play...  Read More >>

The prefaces assembled in this volume illustrate the contradiction between the demand for foreign novels--which...  Read More >>

"Marivaux's short satirical story about the cup-and-ball game ""bilboquet""--omitted from the author's complete...  Read More >>