Literary studies: general books

A wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps...  Read More >>

Jane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book...  Read More >>

A history of creative writing programmes in British and American universities, from the 1930s onwards, that argues...  Read More >>

The book is written mainly for students to enable them better to appreciate and enjoy Euripides’ Andromache. Its...  Read More >>

Providing an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential...  Read More >>

Studies the way that authors in nineteenth-century Britain used the materials of writing (and reading, drawing,...  Read More >>

To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. From the Ghost’s appearance in Hamlet to Celia’s frightful...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare and Digital Performance in Practice explores the impact of digital technologies on the theatrical performance...  Read More >>

Reconsiders the 1820s, an unjustly neglected, highly self-conscious decade defined by massive and anxiety-inducing...  Read More >>

Urmas Nõmmik studies the beginnings of the patriarchal narratives specifically in the context of the royal courts...  Read More >>

"In this study, Assaf Kleiman discusses the settlement history and material culture of complex communities that...  Read More >>

Comic Spenser explains how the deep-rooted cultural bias against humour has skewed interpretation of The Faerie...  Read More >>

Detailed research into documentary sources offers an exciting new identification of the ""real"" Robin Hood.  Read More >>

18 essays examine the work of wizard poets George Drew has known. Drew dives into the art of poetry by analyzing...  Read More >>

Featuring essays by leading scholars of surrealism, this book offers the first sustained critical inquiry into the...  Read More >>

For clergy, scholar, and lay person, Paul's letters hold weight and continue to draw in new readers. In this collection...  Read More >>

This book is about a mad king and a mad duke. With original and iconoclastic readings, Richard van Oort pioneers...  Read More >>

Finnur Jónssons store litteraturhistorie - oprindeligt udgivet under titlen Den old-norske og oldislandske litteraturs...  Read More >>

Which Latin adjectives and adverbs allow for comparative and superlative forms, and which ones do not? Based on...  Read More >>

Highlights the most popular adaptations of each Charles Dickens book, spanning from the films of the silent era...  Read More >>

Compensating a four-decades shortfall, this collective volume is the first reader in Byzantine spatial studies....  Read More >>

This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating...  Read More >>

The Writer's Journey invites you to follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous authors on the travels...  Read More >>

The elegiac poet Propertius responds in his verse to the complex changes that Rome underwent in his lifetime. These...  Read More >>