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The Cambridge Companion to Goethe provides a challenging yet accessible survey of this versatile figure, not only one of the world’s greatest... Les mer

Clara Tuite

Romantic Austen

A full-length scholarly monograph examining Jane Austen’s writings within the traditions of Romanticism. It argues that Austen’s central position... Les mer

Barry B. Powell

Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature

Professor Powell ties the origin and nature of archaic Greek literature to the special technology of Greek alphabetic writing. In building his model... Les mer

Donna F. Wilson

Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad

From beginning to end of the Iliad, Agamemnon and Achilleus are locked in a high-stakes struggle for dominance based on their efforts to impose... Les mer

Nigel Fabb

Language and Literary Structure

How does a literary text get to have literary form, and what is the relation between literary form and linguistic form? This theoretical study of... Les mer

S. E. Wilmer

Theatre, Society and the Nation

Theatre has often served as a touchstone for moments of political change or national definition and as a way of exploring cultural and ethnic... Les mer

Barbara Graziosi

Inventing Homer

How was the poet Homer imagined by ancient Greeks? This book examines stories circulating between the sixth and fourth centuries BC about his birth,... Les mer

Jerrold E. Hogle (red.)

The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction

Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. Here fourteen world-class experts... Les mer

Anthony J. Cascardi (red.)

The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes

Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605) is one of the classic texts of Western literature and the foundation of European fiction. Yet Cervantes himself... Les mer

C. L. Innes

A History of Black and Asian Writing in Britain, 1700–2000

This is the first extended study of black and Asian writing in Britain over the last 250 years. Beginning with authors who arrived as immigrants or... Les mer

Wendy Martin (red.)

The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson, one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, remains an intriguing and fascinating writer. The Cambridge... Les mer

David J. Baker (red.)

British Identities and English Renaissance Literature

Though British history and identity in the early modern period are intensively researched areas, to date, the role of literature in the construction... Les mer

Timothy Morton (red.)

Radicalism in British Literary Culture, 1650–1830

In this volume of interdisciplinary essays, leading scholars examine the radical tradition in British literary culture from the English Revolution to... Les mer

Nicholas Grene

Shakespeare’s Serial History Plays

Shakespeare’s Serial History Plays provides a re-reading of the two sequences of English history plays, Henry VI-Richard III and Richard II-Henry... Les mer

David Schalkwyk

Speech and Performance in Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Plays

David Schalkwyk offers a sustained reading of Shakespeare’s sonnets in relation to his plays. He argues that the language of the sonnets is... Les mer

Alan C. Dessen

Rescripting Shakespeare

Building on almost 300 productions from the last 25 years, Alan Dessen focuses on the playtexts used when directors stage Shakespeare’s plays: the... Les mer

Victoria Rimell

Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction

Petronius’ Satyricon, long regarded as the first novel of the Western tradition, has always sparked controversy. It has been puzzled over as a... Les mer

R. J. Clare

The Path of the Argo

In this innovative study of Apollonius Rhodius’ influential epic poem from the Hellenistic period, the author aims both to offer fresh insights... Les mer

Rachel Crawford

Poetry, Enclosure, and the Vernacular Landscape, 1700–1830

Rachel Crawford examines the intriguing, often problematic, relationship between poetry and landscape in eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century... Les mer

William Solomon

Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression

Literature, Amusement and Technology examines the exchange between literature and recreational practices in 1930s America. William Solomon argues... Les mer

Penny Gay

Jane Austen and the Theatre

Jane Austen was fascinated by theatre from her childhood. As an adult she went to the theatre whenever opportunity arose. Scenes in her novels often... Les mer

Joyce Green MacDonald

Women and Race in Early Modern Texts

Joyce Green MacDonald discusses the links between women’s racial, sexual, and civic identities in early modern texts. She examines the scarcity of... Les mer

Claudia L. Johnson (red.)

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft

Once viewed solely in relation to the history of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft is now recognised as a writer of formidable talent across a range of... Les mer

Scott Paul Gordon

The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640–1770

Challenging recent work that contends that seventeenth-century English discourses privilege the notion of a self-enclosed, self-sufficient... Les mer

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