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The ten novels explored in Critical Children portray children so vividly that their names are instantly recognizable. Richard Locke traces the 130-year evolution of these iconic child characters, mo……続きを見る

In 1941, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein embarked on one of the strangest intellectual projects of her life: translating for an American audience the speeches of Marsh……続きを見る

The contemporary novel does more than revise our conception of loveーit explodes it, queers it, and makes it unrecognizable. Rather than providing union, connection, and completion, love in contempo……続きを見る

Aunque el capitalismo es más poderoso que nunca, su encarnación humana parece haberse desvanecido. A partir de esta constatación, el autor emprende un análisis de la figura del burgués en la literat……続きを見る

Studies in Classic American Literature is a work of literary criticism by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It was first published by Thomas Seltzer in the United States in August 1923. The British……続きを見る

Studies in Classic American Literature is a work of literary criticism by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It was first published by Thomas Seltzer in the United States in August 1923. The British……続きを見る

The thirteenth-century allegorical dream vision, the Roman de la Rose, transformed how medieval literary texts engaged with philosophical ideas. Written in Old French, its influence dominated French……続きを見る

Faust Adaptations, edited and introduced by Lorna Fitzsimmons, takes a comparative cultural studies approach to the ubiquitous legend of Faust and his infernal dealings. Including readings of Englis……続きを見る

Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and unde……続きを見る

The Quest for Redemption: Central European Jewish Thought in Joseph Roth's Works by Rares Piloiu fills an important gap in Roth scholarship, placing Roth's major works of fiction for the first time ……続きを見る

This volume presents a historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublimeーthe literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress ーfrom early English Romanticism ……続きを見る

This book is an anthology focused on Shaw’s efforts, literary and political, that worked toward a modernizing Ireland. Following Declan Kiberd’s Foreword and the editor’s Introduction, the contribut……続きを見る

This book examines the developments in British serial detective fiction which took place in the seven years when Sherlock Holmes was dead. In December 1893, at the height of Sherlock’s popularity wi……続きを見る

Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613, shows how rhetorical invention, elocution and ethos combined to create plausible representations by generating intellectual and emotional si……続きを見る

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the variety of ways in which the interface between understanding the figure of Christ, the place of the cross, and the contours o……続きを見る

This collection examines early modern women’s contribution to the culturally central mode of complaint. Complaint has largely been understood as male-authored, yet, as this collection shows, early m……続きを見る

Women Writing the Neo-Victorian Novel: Erotic “Victorians” focuses on the work of British, Irish, and Commonwealth women writers such as A.S. Byatt, Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, Helen Humphreys, Mar……続きを見る

An exploration of tragedy and its fundamental position in Western culture In this compelling account, eminent literary critic Terry Eagleton explores the nuances of tragedy in Western cultureーfrom ……続きを見る

This book investigates adaptations of The Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat in Victorian and post-Victorian popular culture to explore their engagement with medievalism, social constructions of ……続きを見る

Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France, Hartmann vo……続きを見る

In 1930, when Rabindranath Tagore met Paul and Edith Geheeb in Germany, they formed a fruitful and long-term association resulting in the exchange of ideas and vision. Tagore's Brahmacharya Ashram, ……続きを見る

Französisch und Spanisch gehören nach Englisch zu den beliebtesten Schulfremdsprachen in Deutschland. Dennoch lernen immer weniger SchülerInnen die zweite Fremdsprache bis zum Abitur. Die vorliegend……続きを見る

This innovative collection of essays is the first to situate comedy and laughter as central rather than peripheral to nineteenth century life. Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality,Jokes and D……続きを見る

"Ritratti letterari" di Edmondo De Amicis è una raccolta di saggi che offre uno sguardo penetrante su alcune delle figure più emblematiche della letteratura italiana e internazionale del XIX secolo.……続きを見る

I have gathered into this volume several short fictions of the type I have already found it convenient to refer to as “international”ーthough I freely recognise, before the array of my productions, ……続きを見る

Partial Portraits is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1888. The book collected essays that James had written over the preceding decade, mostly on English and American writers……続きを見る

The most famous of his essaysーperhaps the most famous essay of satire in the English languageーis “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to The……続きを見る

As humans re-negotiate their boundaries with the nonhuman world of animals, inanimate entities and technological artefacts, new identities are formed and a new epistemological and ethical approach t……続きを見る

Partial Portraits is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1888. The book collected essays that James had written over the preceding decade, mostly on English and American writers……続きを見る

I have gathered into this volume several short fictions of the type I have already found it convenient to refer to as “international”ーthough I freely recognise, before the array of my productions, ……続きを見る