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Chicano Poetics
Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities examines the crossing of literary and social forces – be they linguistic, political, poetic - that...
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Singularities
The possibility of literary theory has been repeatedly put at risk by the apparently simple question ‘What is a literary text?’ Throughout the...
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Chronoschisms
In Chronoschisms Ursula Heise explores the way developments in transportation, communication and information technology have led to the emergence of...
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The Composition of Old English Poetry
This book offers an imaginative way of understanding the relationship between syntax and metre in Old English verse. It challenges the view that Old...
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Victorian Renovations of the Novel
This study of narrative technique in Victorian novels introduces the concept of narrative annexes whereby unexpected characters, impermissible...
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Shakespeare’s Troy
Heather James examines the ways in which Shakespeare handles the inheritance and transmission of the Troy legend. She argues that Shakespeare’s use...
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Gender and Language in British Literary Criticism, 1660–1790
During the eighteenth century, British critics applied terms of gender to literature according to the belief that masculine values represented the...
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Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women’s Popular Novels
Popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. Critical articles of the time on fiction and on the body and...
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British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880–1914
This book examines the radical transformation of British literary culture during the period 1880–1914 as seen through the early publishing careers...
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British Satire and the Politics of Style, 1789–1832
This book surveys and interprets the hundreds of satirical poems and prose narratives published in Britain during the Romantic period. Although...
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The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World
What were the possibilities of prose as a literary medium in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? And how did it operate in the literary and...
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Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven
A. B. Marx was one of the most important German music theorists of his time. Drawing on idealist aesthetics and the ideology of Bildung, he developed...
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The Complicity of Imagination
The Complicity of Imagination examines the rich and complex relationship between four nineteenth-century authors and the culture and politics of...
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Floire and Blancheflor and the European Romance
This comparative study examines a medieval love story, Floire and Blancheflor, and shows how writers from Spain, France, Italy, England and...
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Trinity and Incarnation in Anglo-Saxon Art and Thought
This book is a study of the theology of the Trinity as expressed in the literature and art of the late Anglo-Saxon period. It examines the meaning of...
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Narrative and Meaning in Early Modern England
Howard Marchitello’s study of narrative techniques in Renaissance discourse analyses imaginative conjunctions of literary texts, such as those by...
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The Marketplace of Print
Early modern pamphlets serve as an important vehicle for examining print culture, particularly the historical entanglement between the technology of...
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Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII
This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary...
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Chinese Theatre and the Actor in Performance
This work gives an inside view of Chinese theatre and the actor in performance. In doing so it also challenges Western theatre artists such as...
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Gender and the Italian Stage
Maggie Günsberg explores the intersection between gender portrayal and other social categories of class, age and the family in the Italian theatre...
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The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European...
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Theorising Textual Subjects
This book addresses the central crisis in critical theory today: how to theorise the subject as both a construct of oppressive discourse and a...
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Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland
Ireland is increasingly recognized as a crucial element in early modern British literary and political history. Christopher Highley’s book explores...
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De Quincey’s Romanticism
Margaret Russett uses the example of Thomas De Quincey, the nineteenth-century essayist best remembered for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater...
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