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Reading Material in Early Modern England
Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of a wide range of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English... Les mer
Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century
Karen Harvey explores the construction of sexual difference and gender identity in eighteenth-century England. Using erotic texts and their... Les mer
A History of Twentieth-Century British Women’s Poetry
A History of Twentieth-Century British Women’s Poetry offers a detailed evaluative documentary record of the publications, activities and... Les mer
Heracles and Euripidean Tragedy
Euripides’ Heracles is an extraordinary play of great complexity, exploring the co-existence of both positive and negative aspects of the eponymous... Les mer
The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity
The Provincetown Players was a major cultural institution in Greenwich Village from 1916 to 1922, when American Modernism was conceived and... Les mer
Terence and the Language of Roman Comedy
This book offers a comprehensive examination of the language of Roman comedy in general and that of Terence in particular. The study explores... Les mer
Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre
Although often dismissed as a minor offshoot of the better-known German movement, expressionism on the American stage represents a critical phase in... Les mer
Pamela in the Marketplace
Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740) is often regarded as the first true novel in English and a landmark in literary history. The best selling novel... Les mer
Shakespeare’s Humanism
Renaissance humanists believed that if you want to build a just society you must begin with the facts of human nature. This book argues that the idea... Les mer
The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain is the first full study of a group of women who, though they have been... Les mer
Shakespeare and Republicanism
Now available in an affordable paperback edition, this groundbreaking work reveals for the first time exactly how Shakespeare was influenced by... Les mer
Writing as Exorcism
"Sometimes it takes a poet to read a poet. In this inspired, idiosyncratic study, Ilya Kutik offers exemplary interpretations of three Russian... Les mer
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’,... Les mer
The Stony Dance
Widely considered the greatest Russian modernist novel, Andrei Bely's Petersburg has until now eluded the critical attention that a book of its... Les mer
Describing Greece
The Periegesis Hellados (Description of Greece) by Pausanias is the most important example of non-fictional travel literature in ancient Greek. With... Les mer
Solon and Early Greek Poetry
The poetry of archaic Greece gives voice to the history and politics of the culture of that age. This book explores the types of history that have... Les mer
The Arabian Epic: Volume 3, Texts
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... Les mer
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the Greek world, its evolution, and its... Les mer
Aesthetics of Alienation
This provocative work takes issue with the idea that Socialist Realism was mainly the creation of party leaders and was imposed from above on the... Les mer
The Talking Greeks
When considering the question of what makes us human, the ancient Greeks provided numerous suggestions. This book argues that the defining criterion... Les mer
The Cambridge History of American Literature
This volume covers a pivotal era in the formation of American identity. Four leading scholars connect the literature with the massive historical... Les mer
Eudora Welty
Pulitzer-prize winning author Eudora Welty’s writing and photography were the subject of more than one thousand reviews, of which over two hundred... Les mer
The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature
This first comprehensive history of Spanish literature to be published in English since the 1970s brings together experts from the USA, the United... Les mer
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism
This is the first-ever history of the literary theory and criticism produced during the Middle Ages that covers all the main traditions in Latin, the... Les mer