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Enigmas and Riddles in Literature
How do enigmas and riddles work in literature? This benchmark study investigates the literary trope of the riddle, and its relation to the broader...
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Mikhail Bulgakov: A Critical Biography
When it was published this was the full, post-glasnost critical biography of Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940), a great comic writer whose works are...
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Henry James and the Language of Experience
In Henry James and the Language of Experience, Collin Meissner examines the political dimension to the representation of experience as it unfolds...
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John Milton's Aristocratic Entertainments
This book is a comprehensive account of Milton’s two aristocratic entertainments, Arcades and Comus in the context of their original occasions and...
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Redefining Elizabethan Literature
Redefining Elizabethan Literature examines the new definitions of literature and authorship that emerged in one of the most remarkable decades in...
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Fictions and Faces
British Romantic literature descends from a line of impostors, forgers and frauds. Through a series of case-studies - beginning with the golden age...
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Borges and the Kabbalah
The Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges was one of the most influential figures to emerge from the great blossoming of South American literature in the...
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Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain
In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to...
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The Divine Sense
A. N. Williams examines the conception of the intellect in patristic theology from its beginnings in the work of the Apostolic Fathers to Augustine...
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Milton and Gender
Milton’s contempt for women has been accepted since Samuel Johnson’s famous Life of the poet. Subsequent critics have long debated whether...
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The Overlap of Affective and Schizophrenic Spectra
Many clinicians and researchers are convinced that there is an overlap between affective and schizophrenic spectra. In this book, an international...
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Ethics and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Novel
Images of loss and yearning played a crucial role in literary texts written in the later part of the twentieth century. Despite deep cultural...
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Bipolar Disorder in Young People
As research emerges on the effectiveness of psychological therapies for bipolar disorder, this is the first manual guiding the treatment of those in...
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Milton and Ecology
In Milton and Ecology, Ken Hiltner engages with literary, theoretical, and historic approaches to explore the ideological underpinnings of our...
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Language Lateralization and Psychosis
In 1861 Paul Broca discovered that, in most individuals, the left hemisphere of the brain is dominant for language. Taking language as an example,...
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Thomas Aquinas on the Passions
The Summa Theologiae is Thomas Aquinas’ undisputed masterwork, and it includes his thoughts on the elemental forces in human life. Feelings such as...
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Discovering Levinas
In Discovering Levinas, Michael L. Morgan shows how this thinker faces in novel and provocative ways central philosophical problems of...
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Picture, Image and Experience
How do pictures represent? In this book Robert Hopkins casts new light on an ancient question by connecting it to issues in the philosophies of mind...
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The Unity of Plato’s Gorgias
Stauffer demonstrates the complex unity of Plato’s Gorgias through a careful analysis of the dialogue’s three main sections. This includes...
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Reason and Prediction
An original study of the philosophical problems associated with inductive reasoning. Like most of the main questions in epistemology, the classical...
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The Syllable in Optimality Theory
The syllable has always been a key concept in generative linguistics: the rules, representations, parameters, or constraints posited in diverse...
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Ars Amatoria, Book III
This is a full-scale commentary devoted to the third book of Ovid’s Ars Amatoria. It includes an Introduction, a revision of E. J. Kenney’s...
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Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860–2000
Industrial modernity takes it as self-evident that there is a difference between people and machines, but the corollary of this has been a recurring...
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Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone
William Reno provides a powerful, scholarly yet shocking account of the inner workings of an African state. He focuses upon the ties between foreign...
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