If a machine could predict how you would die, would you want to know? This is the tantalizing premis... more

Forrest Reid (1875-1947), the Ulster novelist, spent his life in Belfast, in the north of Ireland, s... more

Evelyn’s Husband by Charles W. Chesnutt, edited by Matthew Wilson and Marjan A. van Schaik. Introduction by Matthew...... more

A Business Career by Charles W. Chesnutt, edited by Matthew Wilson and Marjan A. van Schaik. Introduction by Matthew...... more

of the novel includes a new introduction and notes by Michael Matthew Kaylor, who dismisses the traditional view of Reid...... more

Following in the footsteps of the late great Lester Bangs -- the most revered and irreverent of rock... more

premier Fitzgerald scholar and biographer, Matthew J. Bruccoli, has assembled in one volume the full scope of Fitzgerald’s...... more

would best express his own peculiarly wry view of the world. In Catch As Catch Can, editors Matthew J. Bruccoli and Park...... more

between early modern literature and martial culture. MATTHEW WOODCOCK is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Literature...... more

With fascism on the march in Europe and a second World War looming, a group of Britain’s leading int... more

Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein released the first issue of the poetics newsletter L=A=N=G=U=A=G... more

In 1936, Samuel Beckett wrote a letter to the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein expressing a de... more

The long nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic, varied flourishing in uses for and understandings ... more

Addressing a range of poets who are associated with Wales by either birth or residence and have been... more

Selfhood and the Soul is a collection of new and original essays in honor of Christopher Gill, Emeri... more

Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice brings together leading researchers from Canada, the Uni... more

Of all the Victorian poets, Edward Lear has a good claim to the widest audience: admired and champio... more

University of Birmingham; Matthew Gabriele is an Associate Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of Religion & Culture...... more

While the slogan "Hearts and Minds" has retained its militaristic association, it has extended out i... more

, and into the seventeenth century. Matthew Bailey is Professor of Spanish at Washington and Lee University in Lexington...... more

Medieval and Renaissance Literature at University College, Cork; Matthew Woodcock is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and...... more

The era of literary modernism coincided with a dramatic expansion of broadcast media throughout Euro... more

Winner of the Ezra Pound Society Book Prize 2014 Ezra Pound’s sustained use of ancient and medieval ... more

’I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts’, confessed Elizabeth Barre... more

Grappling with the contemporary Latin American literary climate and its relationship to the pervasiv... more

broader understanding. Contributors include Matthew Abraham, Anis Bawarshi, Amos Kiewe, Michael Bernard-Donals, Michael Kleine...... more

What did reading mean to the Victorians? This question is the key point of departure for Reading and... more

After the Modernist literary experiments of her earlier work, Virginia Woolf became increasingly con... more

Lost Plays in Shakespeare’s England examines assumptions about what a lost play is and how it can be... more

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since th... more

The Celtic Tiger era witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of transnational migrants entering ... more

The era of literary modernism coincided with a dramatic expansion of broadcast media throughout Euro... more

This volume addresses the question of what it is like to be depressed. Despite the vast amount of re... more

Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice brings together leading researchers from Canada, the Uni... more

’I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts’, confessed Elizabeth Barre... more

The two volumes of Reviewing Dante’s Theology bring together work by a range of internationally prom... more

The two volumes of Reviewing Dante’s Theology bring together work by a range of internationally prom... more

"The miracle of empathy," Kwame Dawes once said in an interview, "is the ultimate aim of my writing.... more

With new entries and sensitive edits, this fifth edition places J.A. Cuddon s indispensable dictiona... more

Entering its seventh year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets... more

Robert Frost and Edward Thomas met in a bookshop in London in 1913. During the next four years, the ... more

First published in 1954, the manuscript of this book of hours was bought in Cairo in 1906 for the Be... more

’The Voice of the People’ presents a series of essays on literary aspects of the European folk reviv... more

Comic Books and American Cultural History is an anthology that examines the ways in which comic book... more

Comic Books and American Cultural History is an anthology that examines the ways in which comic book... more

Over the last decade, Samuel Beckett’s popularity has rocketed around the world and he is increasing... more

A collection of research by leading international scholars on Beckett and phenomenology - both compa... more

Death is indisputably central to Beckett’s writing and reception. This collection of research consid... more

Geoffrey Hill is one of the most significant poets currently at work in the English language. The es... more

As perhaps the best-known and most-studied work in the canon of Shakespeare s leading contemporary r... more

The Fasti is one of Ovid’s most complex, inventive, and remarkable works. In presenting the Roman ca... more

A Concise Companion to Realism offers an accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since ... more

, Robin Kirkpatrick, Christian Moevs, Vittorio Montemaggi, Paola Nasti, John Took, Matthew Treherne, and Denys Turner....... more

In Dante s Commedia: Theology as Poetry, an international group of theologians and Dante scholars pr... more