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Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity
This book explores the much maligned and misunderstood genre of declamation. Instead of a bastard rhetoric, declamation should be seen as a venue...
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Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot
This collection of essays brings together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches to study T. S. Eliot’s engagement with desire,...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 11)
Several unusual fields of study are extensively explored in this volume: a distinctive politico-religious cult, penitentials, inscriptions, the...
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Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists
Marina McCoy explores Plato’s treatment of the rhetoric of philosophers and sophists through a thematic treatment of six different Platonic...
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Morals and Villas in Seneca’s Letters
John Henderson explores three letters of Seneca describing visits to Roman villas, and surveys the whole collection to show how these villas work as...
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The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry
This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. The first part...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 12)
Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume: traditions, learned and oral, about the settlement of the country,...
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The Metamorphosis of Persephone
Ovid, a poet unashamedly in love in poetry, including his own, has enjoyed a recent renaissance in popularity. Yet there is still a certain tendency...
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The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry
This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. The first part...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 1)
The contents of this first volume typify the range of interests that will be covered throughout the series. The topics treated include the first two...
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Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism
Ezra Pound was deeply engaged with the avant-garde art scene in London and Paris during the early twentieth century. The effects of this engagement...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 10)
Among topics covered in this volume, two important authorship questions are settled; the discovery of a major Northumbrian settlement is reported;...
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Knowledge and Faith in Thomas Aquinas
This book offers a revisionary account of key epistemological concepts and doctrines of St Thomas Aquinas, particularly his concept of scientia...
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Bion of Smyrna
The work of Bion of Smyrna, the late Hellenistic writer of bucolic poetry, survives in seventeen fragments and the longer Epitaph on Adonis. In this...
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The New York Concert Saloon
In this book Brooks McNamara explores the world of the concert saloon in New York from the Civil War to the early years of the twentieth century. A...
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Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts
This collection brings together thirteen essays by some of the most respected contemporary scholars of Schopenhauer’s aesthetics from a wide...
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Ancient Anger
Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance (1918–1937) was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. Its key figures include W. E. B....
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 14)
Was Old English metre really based on stress and rhythm? Do we really know that a particular glossed manuscript of a Latin curriculum author was used...
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Buddhist Monk, Buddhist Layman
Most anthropological and sociological studies of Buddhism have concentrated on village and rural Buddhism. This is a systematic anthropological study...
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Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns
This book investigates the history of the ancient Greek tradition of oral epic poetry which culminated in the Iliad and Odyssey. These masterpieces...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance (1918–1937) was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. Its key figures include W. E. B....
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 15)
Areas of study pursued in this book include a revealing grammatical document from eighth-century Northumbria; renewed excavations at Sutton Hoo are...
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Emile Zola: L’Assommoir
This book offers a variety of approaches to Zola’s masterpiece, published amid considerable controversy in 1876–7. L’Assommoir (the tale of a...
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