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On Crimes and Punishments and Other Writings
This edition of Beccaria’s On Crimes and Punishments and other writings presents an interpretation of his thought. Drawing on Italian scholarship,...
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The Ego and its Own
Max Stirner’s The Ego and Its Own is striking and distinctive in both style and content. First published in 1844, Stirner’s distinctive and...
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The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance
Two contradictory, or apparantly contradictory, pairs of terms - depression and abundance, and literature and mass culture - make up the framework of...
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The Province of Jurisprudence Determined
The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832) is a classic of nineteenth-century English jurisprudence, a subject on which Austin had a profound...
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New Essays on Wise Blood
These new critical essays on Wise Blood, Flannery O‘Connor’s explosive first novel, not only question our understanding of the ‘Southern...
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News from Nowhere
News from Nowhere (1890) is the most famous work of one of the greatest British writers and thinkers, William Morris. It is a utopian picture of a...
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Movements in Chicano Poetry
Interpreting specific poems by some of the best known Chicano writers, this book studies the central aesthetic and thematic concerns recent Chicano...
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Political Writings
James VI and I united the crowns of England and Scotland. His books are fundamental sources of the principles which underlay the union. In...
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Modern American Short Story Sequences
This book gathers together eleven full-length essays on important American short story sequences of the twentieth century. The introduction by J....
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Judging in Good Faith
This book offers an original theory of adjudication focused on the ethics of judging in courts of law, and proposes two main theses. One is the good...
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Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama
The provocative notion of a contemporary cross-cultural exchange within the medium of theatre is here imposed upon a dozen contemporary...
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Miller: Death of a Salesman
This is the first book to provide a critical history of one of American theatre’s most famous plays, Death of a Salesman. Brenda Murphy offers a...
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New Essays on Song of Solomon
The essays collected here, written by leading critics of Toni Morrison’s work, exemplify the fresh theoretical and cultural perspectives that have...
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The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner
This collection of essays explores Faulkner’s widespread cultural import. Drawing on a wide range of cultural theory and written in accessible...
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Cross-Cultural Reckonings
These far-reaching essays offer a serious and thought-provoking account of the complexities of cross-cultural interpretation. Bringing together such...
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Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet
A. David Moody’s Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet was published to acclaim in 1979, with a successful paperback following in 1980. This carefully revised...
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The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz was a remarkable thinker who made fundamental contributions not only to philosophy, but also to the development of modern...
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Beyond Piety
Beyond Piety examines several fundamental questions regarding the work of art and such aesthetic issues as pleasure, beauty and completeness,...
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Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens
The theme of this book is the legal regulation of violence and the role of litigation in Athenian society. Using comparative anthropological and...
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Public Order in Ancient Rome
The absence of a professional police force in the city of Rome in classical times is often identified as a major cause of the collapse of the...
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The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England
The early medieval Vulgate Bible had no fixed textual form - multiple copying resulted in a multitude of forms. This book tackles questions about the...
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The Textuality of Old English Poetry
This study constructs a reading of Old English poetry which takes up issues current in poststructuralist theory, including intertextuality, work...
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Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry
Peter Clemoes brings a lifetime’s close study of Anglo-Saxon texts to this appreciation of Old English poetry, with an alternative interpretation...
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Archbishop Theodore
Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury (668–90), was a monk of Greek origin and extraordinary learning, who shaped the English Church into a structure...
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