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This collection showcases work on William Godwin (1756-1836) foregrounding new critical approaches and uncovering new texts. Godwin is a familiar presence in scholarship on the Shelley-Godwin circle……続きを見る

Four hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, his works continue to not only fill playhouses around the world, but also be adapted in various forms for consumption in popular culture, includ……続きを見る

This collection is an enquiry into compassion as an early modern emotional phenomenon, situating it within the complexity of European economic, social, cultural and religious tensions. Drawing on re……続きを見る

This book, first published in 1985, stresses Beckett’s success as an innovator in the theatre through a close reading and analysis of his plays. The differing backgrounds of the two authors enables ……続きを見る

This book investigates the representation of the Axis War – the wars of aggression that Fascist Italy fought in North Africa, Greece, the Soviet Union, and the Balkans, from 1940 to 1943 – in three ……続きを見る

Não é fácil inovar em literatura. Tudo parece já ter sido dito. Todas as formas parecem já ter sido experimentadas. A melhor fórmula, contudo, parece a mais simples: ter uma boa história para contar……続きを見る

The captivity narrative has always been a literary genre associated with America. Joe Snader argues, however, that captivity narratives emerged much earlier in Britain, coinciding with European colo……続きを見る

Het humane Europa dat gebaseerd is op de gelijkheid van alle mensen zou wel eens op zijn laatste benen kunnen lopen. Dat kan op uiteenlopende manieren gebeuren. Misschien gaat het ten onder aan mass……続きを見る

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and sel……続きを見る

Social theories of modernity focus on the nineteenth century as the period when Western Europe was transformed by urbanization. Cities became thriving metropolitan centers as a result of economic, p……続きを見る

The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, written by his award-winning translator **“Bernofsky takes us into the heart of an artist’s life/w……続きを見る

Notework begins with a striking insight: the writer's notebook is a genre in itself. Simon Reader pursues this argument in original readings of unpublished writing by prominent Victorians, offering ……続きを見る

The First World War is a watershed in the intellectual and spiritual history of the modern world. On the one hand, it brought an end to a sense of optimism and decency bred by the prosperity of nine……続きを見る

Mobility and Corporeality in 19**th and 21**st Century Anglophone Literature: Bodies in Motion aims at exploring the intersection of literary, mobility and body studies in Anglophone literature from……続きを見る

What did publicity look like before the eighteenth century? What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this collection ask these questions of early modern London……続きを見る

From its first complete Italian printing in 1872 up to the present day, Domenico Comparetti's Vergil in the Middle Ages has been acknowledged as a masterpiece, regarded by some critics as "a true an……続きを見る

In the context of changing constructs of home and of childhood since the mid-twentieth century, this book examines discourses of home and homeland in Irish children’s fiction from 1990 to 2012, a ti……続きを見る

This monograph reorients discussion of Blake’s prophetic mode, revealing it to be not a system in any formal sense, but a dynamic, human response to an era of momentous historical change when the fu……続きを見る

A pathbreaking work of scholarship that will reshape our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, The Practice of Diaspora revisits black transnational culture in the 1920s and 1930s, paying particu……続きを見る

Ce deuxième numéro de la revue annuelle des Amis d’Octave Mirbeau (AOM) entend poursuivre le travail entamé il y a plus d’un quart de siècle : d’une part, enrichir encore les études portant sur l’oe……続きを見る

Theirs was a world of exploration and experimentation, of movement and growth--and in this, the thinkers of the Renaissance, poets and scientists alike, followed their countrymen into uncharted terr……続きを見る

This volume provides a valuable contribution to our knowledge of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century intellectual life inside and outside Germany. ーProf. Karl S. Guthke, Harvard University This eleg……続きを見る

This book questions why so many mothers leave their families in twenty-first-century Swedish literature, analyzing literary representations of maternal abandonment in relation to sociopolitical disc……続きを見る

An illuminating exploration of the new frontiersーand unsettled geographical, temporal, and thematic bordersーof early modern European history. The study of early modern Europe has long been the sou……続きを見る

These eleven original essays by well-known eighteenth-century scholars, five of them editors of James Boswell's journal or letters, commemorate the bicentenary of Boswell's death on May 19, 1795. Th……続きを見る

According to the customary literary-historical and theoretical notion, the fact that the first modern novel represents a parody or travesty of the chivalric ideal merits no particular attention. Fai……続きを見る

Since the beginning of the nineteenth century folklorists, and the general public in their wake, have assumed the orality of fairy tales. Only lately have more and more specialists been arguing in f……続きを見る

Das deutsch-französische Programm " Elysée-Kitas " führt die Kinder im frühen Alter an die Mehrsprachigkeit heran, legt so einen wichtigen Grundstein für deren sprachliche, soziale und kognitive Ent……続きを見る

Der Eigenname ist als sprachliches Phänomen Gegenstand vielfältiger wissenschaftlicher Betrachtung. In der Literatur erfüllt er seine Funktion unter anderem durch sein assoziatives Potenzial, das im……続きを見る

This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary fragme……続きを見る