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King John
King John had a distinguished life on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century stage, but for most of this century the play has been undervalued. The... Les mer
Myth and Archive
This book offers a new theory about the origin and evolution of the Latin American narrative, and about the emergence of the modern novel. It argues... Les mer
Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English... Les mer
The Spanish Labyrinth
Gerald Brenan’s The Spanish Labyrinth has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War. Written during and immediately... Les mer
The Novel of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1975)
This is a major English study of the novels of the Spanish Civil War. The book is based on an analysis of some eighty Spanish novels, written in... Les mer
The Spanish American Regional Novel
Carlos Alonso’s study provides a radical re-examination of the novela de la tierra or regional novel, which plays a central part in the development... Les mer
Dark Eden
An important though little understood aspect of the response of nineteenth-century Americans to nature is the widespread interest in the scenery of... Les mer
Milton and the Drama of History
How did Milton’s understanding of history relate to his literary expression of it? This book explores the role of history in Milton’s literary... Les mer
The Body in Swift and Defoe
This original book takes a new look at problems surrounding the physical, material nature of the human body, in particular as represented in the... Les mer
Transatlantic Manners
Christopher Mulvey has entered the world of travellers writing about their journeys abroad – Americans in their travels through England, and the... Les mer
The Puritan-Provincial Vision
This book suggests a new interpretation of the characteristic qualities of Scottish and American literatures. Considering the self-consciously... Les mer
Metaphors of Mind
Metaphors of Mind seeks to help readers understand human intelligence as viewed from a variety of standpoints, such as those of psychology,... Les mer
The American Epic
This is the first thorough account of the many attempts during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to fashion a distinctly American epic... Les mer
Metaphors in the History of Psychology
When psychologists speak of human memory as a matter of retrieving earlier input from storage, they are basing their discussion of memory upon a... Les mer
Criticism and Compliment
Criticism and Compliment examines the poems, plays and masques of the three figures who succeeded Ben Jonson as authors of court entertainments in... Les mer
Psycholinguistics
This book is an introduction to psycholinguistics, the study of human language processing. It deals with the central area of this field, the language... Les mer
Hard Choices
It is a commonplace that in making decisions agents often have to juggle competing values, and that no choice will maximise satisfaction of them all.... Les mer
Myth, Literature and the African World
Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the foremost living African writers, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of... Les mer
Political Innovation and Conceptual Change
This book defends the claim that politics is a linguistically constituted activity and shows that the concepts which inform political beliefs and... Les mer
That Noble Dream
The aspiration to relate the past as it really happened has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth... Les mer
That Noble Dream
The aspiration to relate the past as it really happened has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth... Les mer
Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Scientific Reason
This book is an important introduction to the critical interpretation of the work of the major French thinker Michel Foucault. Through comprehensive... Les mer
Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Scientific Reason
This book is an important introduction to the critical interpretation of the work of the major French thinker Michel Foucault. Through comprehensive... Les mer
Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking
First published in 1974, this collection of classic case studies in the ethnography of speaking had a formative influence on the field. No other... Les mer