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Shakespeare and Domestic Loss
This book re-examines some of Shakespeare’s best-known texts in the light of their engagement with the forms of deprivation which threatened...
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Performance and Authenticity in the Arts
This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars from music, drama, poetry, performance art, religion, classics, and philosophy to...
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New Essays on My Ántonia
My Antonia is undoubtedly Willa Cather’s most famous novel. It is also her most autobiographical novel and her most aesthetically complex; it can...
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The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound
This Companion contains fifteen chapters by leading international scholars, who together reflect diverse but complementary approaches to the study of...
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Making the English Canon
Jonathan Brody Kramnick’s book examines the formation of the English canon over the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century. Kramnick details...
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Patterns of Redemption in Virgil’s Georgics
Current orthodoxy interprets the Georgics as a statement of profound ambivalence towards Octavian and his claim to be Rome’s saviour after the...
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H.D. and Sapphic Modernism 1910–1950
Diana Collecott proposes that Sappho’s presence in H. D.’s work is as significant as that of Homer in Pound’s, and Dante’s in Eliot’s. She...
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Facing Black and Jew
A reading of African American and Jewish American writers from Henry Roth and Ralph Ellison to Philip Roth and David Bradley. Reading the work of...
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Blackness and Value
Blackness and Value investigates the principles by which value operates, and asks if it is useful to imagine that the concepts of racial blackness...
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The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s
This book offers an original study of the debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature. Paul Keen shows how these...
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Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
This book investigates the critical importance of women to the eighteenth-century debate on property as conducted in the fiction of the period. April...
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Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry
This book examines descriptions of the natural world in a wide range of Old English poetry. Jennifer Neville describes the physical conditions...
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Women’s Reading in Britain, 1750–1835
The growth of female reading audiences from the mid-eighteenth century to the early Victorian era represents both a vital episode in women’s...
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Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
This study addresses the question of why ideas of ancestry and kinship were so important in nineteenth-century society, and particularly in the...
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A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama 1580–1642
This Dictionary, the first of its kind, defines and explains over 900 terms found in the stage directions of English professional plays from the...
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Autobiography and Black Identity Politics
Why has autobiography been central to African American political speech throughout the twentieth century? What is it about the racialization process...
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Reading the French Enlightenment
Julie Candler Hayes offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of Enlightenment thought, the rationalizing and classifying impulse....
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Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English...
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Epistolary Fiction in Europe, 1500–1850
Thomas O. Beebee examines epistolary fiction as a major phenomenon in Europe from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century. His study is the...
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The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature
This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and...
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Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583–1671
Most scholars of Anglo-American colonial history have treated colonialism either as an exclusively American phenomenon or, conversely, as a European...
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Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558–1660
The Catholic contribution to English literary culture has been widely neglected or misunderstood. This book sets out to rehabilitate a wide range of...
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Shakespeare and Social Dialogue
Shakespeare and Social Dialogue deals with Shakespeare’s language and the rhetoric of Elizabethan letters. Moving beyond claims about the language...
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The Language of Sophocles
This book is a wide-ranging study of Sophoclean language. From a detailed analysis of sentence-structure in the first chapter, it moves on to discuss...
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