Latino/a literature is one of the fastest developing fields in the discipline of literary studies. I... more

Author Richard Hollander was devastated when his parents were killed in an automobile accident in 19... more

Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey o... more

The first broad treatment of German genre fiction, containing innovative new essays on a variety of ... more

Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives o... more

A work unprecedented in world literature, this unique volume contains a new translation of Lev Tolst... more

John Gower’s great poem, the Confessio Amantis, was the first work of English literature translated ... more

J. R. LeMaster and Mary Washington Clarke have here assembled a distinguished collection of essays o... more

This volume presents the most important portions of Erwin Goodenough s classic thirteen-volume work,... more

According to the contributors to this volume, the relationship of Buddhism and the arts in Japan is ... more

This book comprises the latest revisiting of Kantor’s artistic oeuvre by international authors refle... more

In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership of... more

These essays investigate the political, cultural, and religious mores of the time and how these soci... more

This latest volume in the Culture & Civilization series gathers interdisciplinary voices to present ... more

Cognition, Literature, and History models the ways in which cognitive and literary studies may colla... more

Bringing together the work of leading film historians, originally published in 1981, this book illus... more

The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N. Scott Momaday s Pul... more

This edited collection of brand new essays examines The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in the ligh... more

This volume extends the reach of the American Shakespeare Center, which provides the finest in Shake... more

In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term slavery to refer to a ran... more

This book seeks to join the ongoing, interdisciplinary approach to children’s literature by means of... more

This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering ... more

A HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE A History of Old English Literature has been significantly revis... more

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literatu... more

A moving and thoughtful tribute, this book, originally published in 1979, offers fourteen essays ded... more

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Edited Book Award From the jaded, wired teenagers of... more

What can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of human rights, and how can human ri... more

Uncollected Poems brings together a rigorous selection of the best of R.S. Thomas s poems.... more

The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities reads a variety of texts, fr... more

Essays exploring the Nobel Laureate’s literary uses of the worldly material around him Essays by Cha... more

When Daniel Patrick Moynihan died in 2003 the Economist described him as "a philosopher-politician-d... more

First published in France in 1956 and now available in English for the first time, this narratologic... more

Adapting Poe is a collection of essays that explores the way Edgar Allan Poe has been adapted over t... more

Distinguished contributors take up eminent scholar Daniel R. Schwarz’s reading of modern fiction and... more

The courtship letters of Emily Dickinson s parents identify issues of vital importance to the poet s... more

Older research on the premodern world limited its focus on the Church, the court, and, more recently... more

Designed to appeal to both general and specialist readers, this volume presents a group of works by ... more

This is a collection of essays by diverse hands engaging, interrogating, and honoring the medieval s... more

Published between 1762 and 1765, these writings are the last works Rousseau wrote for publication du... more

This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering ... more

In 1788, the Catalogue of Five Hundred Celebrated Authors of Great Britain, Now Living forecast a fo... more

What does it mean to be Black in the Obama era? In Reading African American Experiences in the Obama... more

Provides a comprehensive survey of approaches to genre in Shakespeare s work. Contributors probe dee... more

This book seeks to join the ongoing, interdisciplinary approach to children’s literature by means of... more

There is hardly a more controversial issue in the study of ancient religion than Orphism. More than ... more

Challenges the notion of how early modern women may or may not have spoken for (or even with) nature... more

Nature learned long ago how useful proteins are as a diverse set of building blocks to make material... more

Nach dem Ende der römischen Republik stellte sich für Augustus und seine Nachfolger die Aufgabe eine... more

Joseph Conrad s friendship with R. B. Cunninghame Graham was stimulating, and in many ways paradoxic... more

Reading has a history. But how can we recover it? This volume brings together original research ess... more

Bringing together research from a variety of countries and periods, this volume introduces readers t... more

This multi-volume reset collection will addresses significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering ... more

Originally published in 1958, this book contains the complete text of Plato s Philebus in an English... more

"A model reference work that can be used with profit and delight by general readers as well as by mo... more

In 1996, George R.R. Martin electrified fantasy fans around the world when he published A Game of Th... more

This volume presents a number of close readings of Latin American literary and cultural phenomena. T... more