Superheroes such as Superman and Spider-Man have spread all over the world. As this edited volume sh... more

This collection of essays is devoted to the intersections of poetic speech, literary criticism, theo... more

The idea of human rights is not new. But the importance of taking rights seriously has never been mo... more

The many catastrophes of German history have often been described as tragic. Consequently, German li... more

Even before the publication of his masterwork, John Henry Newman had been regarded as one of the mos... more

Poet, performance artist, and critic David Antin invented the "talk poem." He insists that his poems... more

This book showcases the research of established and younger colleagues from Great Britain and Irelan... more

A comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings u... more

Romanticism was always culturally diverse. Though English-language anthologies have previously tende... more

In the first collection to be devoted to this subject, a distinguished cast of contributors explores... more

In the autumn of 1933 the twenty-seven-year-old Bonhoeffer accepted a two-year appointment as a past... more

The volume offers a chronological overview of Portuguese literature from the 12th century to the pre... more

At the turn of the nineteenth century, writers arguing for the abolition of the slave trade and the ... more

Views adaptations as a way in which Germany seeks to come to terms with its past. Coming to terms wi... more

Though printer Richard Tottel s Songes and Sonettes (1557) remains the most influential poetic colle... more

The Edwardian period was a time of great social and political change. The six texts in this edition ... more

In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set o... more

Broadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009), this book examine... more

Criticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a single aspec... more

Neither older empiricist positions that genre is an abstract concept, useless for the study of indiv... more

Aware that some may see the title of this volume as an oxymoron, James Ward Lee argues in his Argum... more

In the past twenty years the study of Sparta has come of age. Images prevalent earlier in the 20th c... more

In the first collection to be devoted to this subject, a distinguished cast of contributors explores... more

Across two decades of intense creativity, David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) crafted a remarkable body... more

This eight-volume set in two parts gives voice to some intrepid women travellers touring post-Napole... more

Resistance is a key concept for understanding the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and fo... more

The Wordsworth volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series is the most comprehensive selection ... more

"Serious art is where difficult, complex questions get made urgent and human and real; and the polit... more

From the early 1920s to the late 1960s, T. E. Lawrence s life and career were largely the subject of... more

Charles Montagu Doughty s Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888) is remarkable for its scientific evelatio... more

The Platform Sutra comprises a wide range of important Chan/Zen Buddhist teachings. Purported to con... more

This critical work considers the role played by elements that might be considered aberrational in a ... more

I Henry IV has always been one of Shakespeare s most popular plays and this critical guide offers a... more

"He loads his head full of coal and diamonds shoot out of his finger tips. What a trick. The mole ge... more

A welcome return to paperback: James Merrill s most famous and celebrated work.... more

The richness of Victorian theatre has often been neglected because of the era s most celebrated prod... more

While Hume remains one of the most central figures in modern philosophy his place within Enlightenme... more

When Elmer Kelton died in the fall of 2009, the literary world lost a consummate writer, a man the N... more

Shakespeare’s history plays have always been pivotal to our understanding of his works and their rel... more

These essays recover the lively discussions on the topics of ’magnificence’ and ’the sublime’ in the... more

A distinguished academic, influential Christian apologist, and best-selling author of children s lit... more

A distinguished academic, influential Christian apologist, and best-selling author of children s lit... more

This work is a complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, Bishop of Seville (... more

The complete sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--in English and Spanish... more

Human bodies have been represented and defined in various ways across different cultures and histori... more

This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical pers... more

A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon ... more

The picturesque (a set of theories, ideas, and conventions that grew up around the question of how w... more

A Companion to the Classical Tradition accommodates the pressing need for an up-to-date introduction... more

An essential chronological framework for students of Portuguese literature. This companion volume of... more

Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and aut... more

The Shakespeare Handbook is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare and early mo... more

Richard Robinson s The Rewarde of Wickednesse (1574) is a quasi-epic poem that imitates the de cas... more

The first book-length study to specifically examine the many intersections in the works of Robert Lo... more

Helen Vendler may be America s most important poetry critic. A winner of the National Book Critics C... more

Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Co... more