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Daniela Kukrechtová

Unplanned Cities in Modern American Poetry

Reveals how five modern American poets challenged prevailing discourses about urbanization through lyrical representations of cities and the diverse people who lived in them.In early 20th-century America,…

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Tod und Verklärung op. 24 (1889)

Kazumitsu Ito

Statistical Data Analysis of Japanese Literature

While working as a full-time doctor at a hospital in the suburbs of Iwata City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, I have been studying Japanese literature. This book was the culmination of over 10 years of dedi…

Michèle Roberts

Colette

Prize-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and memoirist Michèle Roberts tells of her experience of reading the novels of French writer Colette, whose work has inspired and encouraged her throughou…

Alex Tickell

City Fictions of the New India

This books adopts a parallel approach to literary and urban form to understand how contemporary Indian English fiction engages with the city as the exemplary site of the so-called 'New India'. A wide rang…

Celia Campbell

Rival Praises

The Metamorphoses, written by the Roman poet Ovid, has fascinated readers ever since it was written in the first century CE, and here Celia M. Campbell offers a bold new interpretive approach. Reasserting…

Rebecca Yearling

Shakespeare's Violence and the Early Modern Spectator

This book explores how Shakespeare's original audience might have responded to his scenes of violence and, in the process, makes the case that fictional violence is valuable because it tells us about ours…

Pamela Bickley, Jenny Stevens

Essential Shakespeare

A go-to guide to help undergraduates navigate their way through university Shakespeare, examining 16 key plays.

Priyanka Anne Jacob

The Victorian Novel on File

This book argues that the capacious and cluttered Victorian novel was formally shaped by the nineteenth century information explosion and by the pressure to store unprecedented amounts of data. The study …

Sarah Quesada

The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature

The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last fifty years. It challenges dominant narratives in World Literature a…

The Collected Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld: Volume 2

This volume presents Anna Letitia Barbauld's educational writing and her ground-breaking works for children, including Lessons for Children , with texts presented in their original special format, and the…

Robert Harvey

The Rhetoric of Manipulation

A provocative and timely look at how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.The Rhetoric of Manipul…

Teaching the Arthurian Tradition

Essays on teaching medieval Arthurian literature and modern adaptationsFrom the Middle Ages to the present, legends of King Arthur and his court have fascinated readers, inviting contemplation of leadersh…

Performing Shakespeare in India

This book is envisaged as an intervention in the ongoing explorations in social and cultural history, into questions of what constitutes Indianness for the colonial and the postcolonial subject and the ro…

Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver

Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…

¡Ay Tú!

A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros.

Myka Tucker-Abramson

Cartographies of Empire

The road novel is often dismissed as a mundane, nostalgic genre: Jack, Sal, and other tedious white men on the road trying to recapture an authentic youth and American past that never existed. Yet, new ro…

Alison Keith

Sulpicia

This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocr…

Debra Baldwin, Debra Romanick Baldwin

The Inwardness of Things

The Inwardness of Things examines Joseph Conrad as a modern voice in a long-standing and timeless dispute between poetry and philosophy.