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Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism
This ambitious study argues that our modern conception of the aesthetic sphere emerged during the era of British and German Romanticism from...
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Players of Shakespeare 5
This is the fifth volume of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre on their interpretations of major...
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The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire
Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely ‘their own’,...
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The Argonautica of Apollonius
In recent years the subtlety and complexity of Apollonius’ Argonautica have been better appreciated, but in Dr Hunter’s view the purposes and...
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism
Volume 8 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism deals with the most influential and hotly debated areas of literary theory: those developing...
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Vom Kainszeichen zum genetischen Code
Schrift hat roh begonnen: als Einschnitt in menschliche Körper oder, biblisch gesprochen, als Kainszeichen. Ihr Entstehungszusammenhang ist das...
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Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880–1920
In this book Pamela Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siècle. Thurschwell...
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Pieces of Resistance
"Criticism, as I understand and practice it, is evaluative as well as interpretive", writes Eugene Goodheart. Pieces of Resistance is a...
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Wordsworth’s Pope
Recent studies of the concepts and ideologies of Romanticism have neglected to examine the ways in which Romanticism defined itself by reconfiguring...
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Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women’s Popular Novels
Popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. Critical articles of the time on fiction and on the body and...
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The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeare’s England
How was the experience of watching a play influenced by practices beyond the walls of the playhouse, and what were the broader social and historical...
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Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition
This book offers an original approach to Shakespeare’s so-called problem plays by contending that they can be viewed as experiments in the...
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Language, Authority, and Indigenous History in the Comentarios reales de los Incas
The Comentarios reales de los incas, a classic of Spanish Renaissance prose narrative, was written by Garcilaso Inca de la Vega, the son of an Inca...
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The Tears of Things
We surround ourselves with material things that are invested with memories but can only stand for what we have lost. Physical objects—such as...
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Biosemiotik
Biosemiotik - hvad er så det? Det er en nyt internationalt forskningsfelt, som med udgangspunkt i teorier og begreber udviklet inden for...
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The Problem of the Text of Acts
In the book of Acts, the so-called Western text departs from the alternative text in numerous points of detail. These divergences in the textual...
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The Literary Animal
In recent years, articles in major periodicals from the New York Times Magazine to the Times Literary Supplement have heralded the arrival of a new...
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Alfabetets användning
Är poesin ande eller materia? Ska vi närma oss poesin som en själens sanna röst? Eller ska vi se den som alltid märkt av sin materiella och...
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Lines of Enquiry
In these studies of Latin poetry Niall Rudd demonstrates a variety of critical methods and approaches. He shows how it can be fruitful at different...
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The Theatre of Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson, the leading American avant-garde theatre director, revolutionised the stage by making visual communication more important than words....
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Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Speculative investment and the popular novel can be seen as analogous in the early eighteenth century in offering new forms of ‘paper credit’;...
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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...
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Johnson, Writing, and Memory
Johnson, Writing, and Memory demonstrates the importance of memory in Samuel Johnson’s oeuvre. Greg Clingham argues that this is a notion of memory...
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Gender and Language in British Literary Criticism, 1660–1790
During the eighteenth century, British critics applied terms of gender to literature according to the belief that masculine values represented the...
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