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Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire
During the nineteenth century the performance of Shakespeare’s plays contributed significantly to the creation of a sense of British nationhood at... Les mer
Not Shakespeare
Burlesque has been a powerful and enduring weapon in the critique of legitimate Shakespearean culture by a seemingly illegitimate popular culture.... Les mer
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... Les mer
Byron and Romanticism
This collection of essays represents twenty-five years of work by one of the most important critics of Romanticism and Byron studies, Jerome McGann.... Les mer
Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body
Anna Krugovoy Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body - hunger, appetite, fat and... Les mer
Statius’ Silvae and the Poetics of Empire
Statius’ Silvae, written late in the reign of Domitian (AD 81–96), are a new kind of poetry that confronts the challenge of imperial majesty or... Les mer
Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship
What is the history of authorship, of invention, of intellectual property? Joseph Loewenstein describes the fragmentary and eruptive emergence of a... Les mer
Shakespeare and Theatrical Patronage in Early Modern England
During the past quarter of a century, the study of patronage-theatre relations in early modern England has developed considerably. This, however, is... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Ovid
Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and... Les mer
Ovid’s Poetics of Illusion
Ovid’s poetry is haunted obsessively by a sense both of the living fullness of the texts and of the emptiness of these ‘insubstantial... Les mer
Translation Studies
The study of translation is constantly expanding in a world that is experiencing a flourish of translated texts unparalleled in human history.... Les mer
Elizabethan Rhetoric
Peter Mack examines the impact of humanist training in rhetoric and argument on a range of Elizabethan prose texts, including political orations,... Les mer
Gogol’s Afterlife
Gogol's claim to the title of national literary classic is incontestable. An exemplar of popular audiences no less than for the intelligentsia,... Les mer
Counterfeiting Shakespeare
Counterfeiting Shakespeare addresses the fundamental issue of what Shakespeare actually wrote, and how this is determined. In recent years his... Les mer
Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English... Les mer
The Play of Character in Plato’s Dialogues
This book attempts to bridge the gulf that still exists between literary and philosophical interpreters of Plato by looking at his use of... Les mer
The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England
The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England is the eagerly-awaited study by the feminist scholar who was among the first to address the... Les mer
Bakhtin and the Classics
This contributed volume is the first devoted to the relationship between Bakhtin and the study of classical antiquity. Branham has collected essays... Les mer
Russia Reads Rousseau, 1762-1825
This book is the first study of the dynamics and individual character of the Russian reception of Rousseau. An earlier version of the manuscript was... Les mer
The Janus Face of the German Avant-Garde
Among the avant-garde of the early twentieth century, the German movement remains one of the least understood in the current avant-garde and... Les mer
Studies in Classic American Literature
Studies in Classic American Literature, first published in 1923, provides a cross-section of Lawrence’s writing on American literature, including... Les mer
The Cambridge History of American Literature
Volume 6 of The Cambridge History of American Literature explores the emergence and flowering of modernism in the United States. David Minter... Les mer
Language of Shakespeare
Literacy in Context is your key to delivering the Framework for Teaching English. Each book will help students to understand more about a particular... Les mer
Shakespearean and Jacobean Tragedy - Series
Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Tragedies echoed the brutalities and injustices of the time and mirror other... Les mer