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This volume addresses the construction and artistic representation of traumatic memories in the contemporary Western world from a variety of inter- and trans-disciplinarity critical approaches and p……続きを見る

This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy ti……続きを見る

Virginia Woolf's 'A Writer's Diary' offers a unique insight into the mind of the renowned author through her personal diary entries. Written in a stream-of-consciousness style, this literary work pr……続きを見る

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 'Notes from Underground & The House of the Dead' stands as a groundbreaking work in the realm of Russian literature. This collection of two novellas delves deep into the psychol……続きを見る

Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse' is a modernist novel renowned for its experimental narrative structure and introspective exploration of consciousness and human experience. Set in the early 20th……続きを見る

John McWilliams has written the first, much needed account of the ways the promise and threat of political revolution have informed masterpieces of the historical novel. The jolting sense of histori……続きを見る

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) lived through one of the most turbulent periods in modern history, witnessing a world war, the dissolution of an empire and the foundation of a new nation state. But the earl……続きを見る

This book reveals the breadth and depth of women’s engagements with Arthurian romance in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Tracing the variety of women’s responses to the medieval ……続きを見る

In 'Guirlanden um Die Urnen der Zukunft' präsentiert A. K. Ruh einen fesselnden Roman über die Zukunft der Menschheit und die Frage nach dem Sinn des Lebens. Mit einem poetischen Schreibstil und tie……続きを見る

In 'Vor der Flagge des Vaterlands: Historischer Abenteuerroman' entführt uns Jules Verne in eine fiktive Welt voller Abenteuer und historischer Ereignisse. Mit seinem typisch packenden Stil verwebt ……続きを見る

Füst Milán – Adyval, Móriczcal, Babitscsal, Kosztolányival, Karinthyval együtt – a Nyugat első nemzedékének legkiemelkedőbb alkotói közé tartozott, de mindannyiuknál hosszabb életpályát befutva még ……続きを見る

Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, who gradually transformed himself into the English writer, Joseph Conrad, was a mercurial personality. He left Poland for the sea, though he had no experience with ……続きを見る

New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, is struggling with important questions ……続きを見る

This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays by international scholars takes a fresh look at the profound impact of the Peninsular War on Romantic British literature and culture. The ex……続きを見る

This book investigates how writers and readers of Renaissance literature deployed ‘kinesic intelligence’, a combination of pre-reflective bodily response and reflective interpretation. Through analy……続きを見る

This book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960. Featuring detailed studies of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, and Eavan Boland, inclu……続きを見る

This edited collection examines the synergistic relationship between gender and urban space in post-millennium Spain. Despite the social progress Spain has made extending equal rights to all citizen……続きを見る

Keen to learn but short on time? Find out everything you need to know about the life and work of Émile Zola in just 50 minutes with this straightforward and engaging guide! Émile Zola was the leadin……続きを見る

What role do fables play in Cartesian method and psychology? By looking at Descartes’ use of fables, James Griffith suggests there is a fabular logic that runs to the heart of Descartes’ philosophy.……続きを見る

The 1820s and 1830s, the gap between Romanticism and Victorianism, continues to prove a difficulty for scholars. This book explores and recovers a neglected culture of poetry in those years, and it ……続きを見る

This book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. It argues for the importance of reading to early modern childhood and ……続きを見る

This book focuses on the twin arts of literature and music, supporting the notion that cosmopolitanism is the natural condition of all the arts, and that all culture - without exception - is migrant……続きを見る

This book demonstrates the epic genre’s enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the ‘postcolonial epic’, ushered in by Herman Melville’s Moby D……続きを見る

This book examines conceptions of authority for and in Shakespeare, and the construction of Shakespeare as literary and cultural authority. The first section, Defining and Redefining Authority, begi……続きを見る

Simon Gilson's new volume provides the first in-depth account of the critical and editorial reception in Renaissance Italy, particularly Florence, Venice and Padua, of the work of Dante Alighieri (1……続きを見る

This book explores Henry James’s negotiations with nineteenth-century ideas about gender, sexuality, class, and literary style through the responses of three women who have never before been substan……続きを見る

King and Commoner tales were hugely popular across the late medieval and early modern periods, their cultural influence extending from Robin Hood ballads to Shakespearean national histories. This st……続きを見る

This book provides a fascinating account of rooms in selected works by Virginia Woolf. Casting them as spaces which are at once material, textual and emotional, the volume shows Woolf’s rooms to be ……続きを見る

ETHICS FOR RASCALS spotlights the romantic adventures, provocative ethics, and playful philosophy of the prince of storytellers, Robert Louis Stevenson, quixotic wanderer and prototype for Sir James……続きを見る

A Prussian Jew, killed in the second month of the First World War at the age of 25, 18 years before his father died, apparently of natural causes, and 28 years before his mother and two of his sibli……続きを見る