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Russian Literature and Empire
This is the first book to provide a synthesising study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth-century age of empire-building....
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Modernism from Right to Left
Part biography and part literary history, this book is about the experience of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens in the 1930s. Stevens is...
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Literature and Culture in Early Modern London
In the two hundred years from 1475 London was transformed from a medieval commune into a metropolis of half a million people, a capital city and a...
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Martial: The Unexpected Classic
This is the first full-length study in English of the Roman poet Martial’s life, poetry and politics, as well as of the survival of his fifteen...
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Religion and Literature in Western England, 600–800
Even the Venerable Bede knew little about the two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms described in this book. In the sixth and seventh centuries the pagan peoples...
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The Songs of Homer
The literature of the western world begins with one of its greatest achievements. The stories of the wrath of Achilles and its consequences, and of...
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The Arabic Literary Heritage
Roger Allen here offers an account of the cultural tradition of literary texts in Arabic, from their unknown beginnings in the fifth century AD to...
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Empire and Memory
The memory of the Roman Republic exercised a powerful influence on several generations of Romans who lived under its political and cultural...
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The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee
Edward Albee, perhaps best known for his acclaimed and infamous 1960s drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is one of America’s greatest living...
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The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather
The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather offers thirteen original essays by leading scholars of a major American modernist novelist. Willa Cather’s...
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Service and Dependency in Shakespeare’s Plays
This is an unusual study of the nature of service and other types of dependency and patronage in Shakespeare’s drama. By considering the close...
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The Arabian Epic: Volume 2, Analysis
The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. The...
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The Ovidian Heroine as Author
Ovid’s Heroides, a catalogue of letters by women who have been deserted, has too frequently been examined as merely a lament. In a new departure,...
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Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860
Examining the literature of slavery and race before the Civil War, Maurice Lee demonstrates for the first time exactly how the slavery crisis became...
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The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature
Invisible, marginal, expected - these words trace the path of recognition for American Indian literature written in English since the late eighteenth...
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The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov held the unique distinction of being one of the most important writers of the twentieth century in two separate languages, Russian...
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The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison’s classic 1952 novel Invisible Man is one of the most important and controversial novels in the American canon and remains widely...
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The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of American literary modernism from 1890 to 1939....
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T.S. Eliot and the Art of Collaboration
Richard Badenhausen examines the crucial role that collaboration with other writers played in the development of T. S. Eliot’s works from the...
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Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s Dictionary
Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, the first great English dictionary and one of the most famous books in the English language,...
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Literature and the Taste of Knowledge
What does literature know? Does it offer us knowledge of its own or does it only interrupt and question other forms of knowledge? This book seeks to...
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Racism, Misogyny, and the Othello Myth
Through readings of texts spanning four centuries, and bridging the Atlantic - from genres as diverse as English Renaissance drama, abolitionist...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel
The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over...
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Shakespeare’s Tragedies
Shakespeare’s Tragedies: Violation and Identity traces the linked themes of violation and identity through seven Shakespearean tragedies, beginning...
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