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Modernism and the Celtic Revival
In Modernism and the Celtic Revival, Gregory Castle examines the impact of anthropology on the work of Irish Revivalists such as W. B. Yeats, John M.... Les mer
The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeare’s England
How was the experience of watching a play influenced by practices beyond the walls of the playhouse, and what were the broader social and historical... Les mer
American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995
Focusing on key works of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literary realism, Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of... Les mer
Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature
David Ellison’s book is an investigation into the historical origins and textual practice of European literary Modernism. Ellison’s study traces... Les mer
Shakespeare and the Book
Shakespeare and the Book is a lively and learned account of Shakespeare’s plays as they were transformed from scripts to be performed into books to... Les mer
The Anti-Jacobin Novel
The French Revolution sparked an ideological debate which also brought Britain to the brink of revolution in the 1790s. Just as radicals wrote... Les mer
Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840–1940
This original and provocative study discusses the work of a number of authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in order to argue that... Les mer
Women, Nationalism, and the Romantic Stage
In the 1780s and 90s, theatre critics described the stage as a state in political tumult, while politicians invoked theatre as a model for politics... Les mer
Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France
In Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay, Timothy Mathews examines work by a range of writers and painters working in France in the twentieth... Les mer
Shakespeare and the Hunt
Shakespeare and the Hunt is the first book-length study of Shakespeare’s works in relation to the culture of the hunt in Elizabethan and Jacobean... Les mer
Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880–1920
In this book Pamela Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siècle. Thurschwell... Les mer
Satires of Rome
This new survey of Roman satire locates its most salient possibilities and effects at the center of every Roman reader’s cultural and political... Les mer
O’Neill
This is the first full production history of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, by Eugene O’Neill, one of the most influential plays of the twentieth... Les mer
Performing the American Frontier, 1870–1906
Performing the American Frontier, 1870–1906 examines how the American frontier was presented in theatrical productions during the critical period... Les mer
Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation
Peter Gibian explores the key role played by Oliver Wendell Holmes in what was known as America’s Age of Conversation. He was both a model and an... Les mer
Orientalism in French Classical Drama
Michèle Longino examines the ways in which Mediterranean exoticism inflects the themes represented in French classical drama. Longino explores plays... Les mer
Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London
A Deluge of Libertinism swept through England in the turbulent seventeenth century: class and gender relations went into deep crisis, and sexually... Les mer
Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature
How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualize the interim between death and Doomsday? In this book, Ananya Jahanara Kabir presents an investigation into the... Les mer
Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England
This book explores the complex interrelationship between texts and drawings in the late-tenth or early-eleventh century Junius II manuscript, the... Les mer
Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood
This book applies comparative cultural and literary models to a reading of Catullus’ poems as social performances of a poetics of manhood: a... Les mer
Ancient Epistolary Fictions
The first comprehensive look at fictive letters in Greek literature from Homer to Philostratus. It includes both embedded epistolary narratives in a... Les mer
Virgil and the Augustan Reception
This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. The author focuses on the emperor... Les mer
Chernyshevskii’s What is to Be Done
Andrew M. Drozd reexamines the misunderstood Russian novel, insisting it was misread by both detractors (who dismissed it as propaganda) and admirers... Les mer
Prior to Meaning
Prior to Meaning collects a decade of writing on poetry, language, and the theory of writing by one of the most innovative and conceptually... Les mer