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Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908–1934
In Genders, Races and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetries, Rachel Blau Duplessis shows how, through poetic language, modernist writers...
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’Pataphysics
'Pataphysics, the pseudoscience imagined by Alfred Jarry, has so far, because of its academic frivolity and hermetic perversity, attracted very...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy
This is an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare’s comedies and romances. Rather than taking each play in isolation,...
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Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland
The Elizabethan conquest of Ireland sparked off two linguistic events of enduring importance: it initiated the language shift from Irish to English,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution
This collection of fifteen essays by leading scholars examines the extraordinary diversity and richness of the writing produced in response to, and...
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The Cambridge Companion to Keats
In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats’s work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors;...
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Language from the Body
What is the role of meaning in linguistic theory? Generative linguists have severely limited the influence of meaning, claiming that language is not...
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Kant, Art, and Art History
Kant, Art, and Art History is the first systematic study of Kant’s reception of and influence on the visual arts and art history. Arguing against...
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Conrad and Impressionism
In this book, John Peters investigates the impact of Impressionism on Conrad and links this to his literary techniques as well as his philosophical...
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The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Eleven specially-commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars present a clearly written and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a...
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The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost
This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Robert Frost’s poetry and life. Frost remains...
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Conrad, Language, and Narrative
In this re-evaluation of the writings of Joseph Conrad, Michael Greaney places language and narrative at the heart of his literary achievement. A...
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The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing
Providing an overview of the history of writing by women in the period, this Companion establishes the context in which this writing emerged, and...
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Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition
Dostoevsky is one of Russia’s greatest novelists and a major influence in modern debates about religion, both in Russia and the West. This...
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Women and Literature in Britain 1800–1900
These new essays by leading scholars explore nineteenth-century women’s writing across a spectrum of genres. The book’s focus is on women’s...
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British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind
In this provocative and original study, Alan Richardson examines an entire range of intellectual, cultural, and ideological points of contact between...
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The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot
This volume of specially-commissioned essays provides accessible introductions to all aspects of George Eliot’s writing by some of the most...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned...
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Literary Magazines and British Romanticism
In this study, Mark Parker proposes that literary magazines should be an object of study in their own right. He argues that magazines such as the...
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Shakespeare and Sexuality
This volume draws together ten important essays which use a variety of approaches and materials to explore the significance of sexuality in...
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Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare’s Time
Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare’s Time examines the nature of commercial relations among the theatre companies in London during the...
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Richard Wollheim on the Art of Painting
Richard Wollheim is one of the dominant figures in the philosophy of art, whose work has shown not only how paintings create their effects but why...
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Mimesis and Empire
As powerful, pointed imitation, cultural mimesis can effect inclusion in a polity, threaten state legitimacy, or undo the originality upon which such...
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Literature, Mapping, and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain
Mapping has become a key term in current critical discourse, describing a particular cognitive mode of gaining control over the world, of...
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