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English Literature in Context
Comprehensive and accessible, this textbook supports the study of English literature from the Middle Ages to the present, and is designed as a main...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain
Mark Twain is a central figure in nineteenth-century American literature, and his novels are among the best-known and most often studied texts in the...
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The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great
This book is a comprehensive study of political thought at the court of King Alfred the Great (871–99). It explains the extraordinary burst of...
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Authoritarianism in an Age of Democratization
Far from sweeping the globe uniformly, the third wave of democratization left burgeoning republics and resilient dictatorships in its wake. Applying...
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Husserl and Heidegger on Human Experience
In this book Pierre Keller examines the distinctive contributions, and the respective limitations, of Husserl’s and Heidegger’s approach to...
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Fashioning Adultery
This book provides a major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide...
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Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen
The process of translating works of literature to the silver screen is a rich field of study for both students and scholars of literature and cinema....
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Old English Biblical Verse
This is an extended study of the Old Testament poems of the Junius collection as a group. The circumstances surrounding their composition and...
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The Work of Global Justice
Human rights have been generally understood as juridical products, organizational outcomes or abstract principles that are realized through formal...
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Person Reference in Interaction
How do we refer to people in everyday conversation? No matter the language or culture, we must choose from a range of options: full name (\'Robert...
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The Order of Nature in Aristotle\'s Physics :Place and the Elements
The book demonstrates a method for reading the texts of Aristotle by revealing a continuous line of argument running from the Physics to De Caelo....
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The Character of Credit
Personal credit relations were ubiquitous in English consumer markets, binding family members, friends, neighbours, customers and tradesmen in...
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Twentieth-Century American Fiction on Screen
The essays in this collection analyse major film adaptations of twentieth-century American fiction, from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon to...
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Two Old English Apocrypha and their Manuscript Source
In the course of this book Professor Cross presents the discovery of the actual manuscript source for the Old English versions of two biblical...
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Objectivity and the Rule of Law
What is objectivity? What is the rule of law? Are the operations of legal systems objective? If so, in what ways and to what degrees are they...
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Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust
Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust investigates human curiosity and its representation in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century...
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Theatre Culture in America, 1825–1860
Theatre Culture in America, 1825–1860 examines how Americans staged their cultures in the decades before the Civil War, and advances the idea that...
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Biblical Commentaries from the Canterbury School of Theodore and Hadrian
This volume includes the first edition of a previously unknown text which throws light on the intellectual history of early medieval Europe. The...
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Global Accountabilities
Accountability is seen as an essential feature of governments, businesses and NGOs. This volume treats it as a socially constructed means of control...
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The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of...
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The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England
Donald Davie is the foremost literary critics of his generation and one of its leading poets. His career has been marked by a series of challenging...
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The Theatre in America during the Revolution
This is a comprehensive attempt to assemble all that is known of theatre at the time of America’s political birth. Because many plays performed...
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Ælfric’s Letter to the Monks of Eynsham
Though best known today for his Old English homilies, the Anglo-Saxon scholar Ælfric also composed a Latin letter to his fellow monks at Eynsham...
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Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe
As Europe enters a significant phase of re-integration of East and West, it faces an increasing problem with the rise of far-right political parties....
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