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Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's essays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers.The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-90) was one of the most important literary figures of th…

Stefanie Markovits

The Number Sense of Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Explores the way that numbers interact with literary forms in the nineteenth century. The close literary readings ask why some writers engage particularly with numbers; what kinds of work numbers perform …

Erin E Edgington

Between the New Country and the Old World

Poet and provocateur William Chapman (1850-1917) wrote patriotic verse recounting the history of New France, envisioning a glorious future for its descendants. Despite his many literary achievements - he …

Dennis Eugene Russell

Harold Pinter, Fascism, and Outrage

This book locates Harold Pinter's controversial anti-fascism, overtly political plays not as revolutionary works designed to mobilize the masses, but as cries of moral outrage against the authoritarian fo…

Gemma Goodman

Alternative Cornwalls

This book takes a fresh look at the representation of Cornwall in literature. It offers new readings of familiar texts, and re-inserts little-known textual versions of Cornwall alongside those that have p…

Marlin E Blaine, Lena Cowen Orlin, Alan H Nelson, Robert Bearman

Book Culture in Shakespeare's Stratford

The discovery of two books in Latin that once belonged to the Quiney family of Stratford-upon-Avon expand our understanding of Shakespeare's early grammar school education, early modern history, material …

Carolyn Larrington

The Little Book of Dragons

Dragons have roamed human consciousness throughout time and across cultures. A dragon is the embodiment of death and destruction in the Apocalypse battles of the Christian Bible and the evil that is vanqu…

Lucas Hardy,

Theologies of Pain

Mining unexplored discourses of pain in New England literary texts, this book shows how pain was central in shaping New England culture, identity, early American nationalism and racial tropes.

Hester Lees-Jeffries

Textile Shakespeare

Textile Shakespeare explores the centrality of textiles to life in early modern England. Cloth and fabric displayed the wearer's wealth, but could also indicate knowledge and skill. The book explores text…

Liesl Yamaguchi

On the Colors of Vowels

On the Colors of Vowelsinvestigates the nineteenth-century emergence of discourses attributing visual properties (color, brightness) to vowels in linguistics, poetics, acoustics, opera, and experimental p…

Lee M Jenkins,

Great War Modernists

"Contesting the binaries that still exist between modernist and First World War writing, this critical group study of D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington offers a fresh perspective on the relat…

Simon Jackson

George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century music…

Walter Benjamin,

On Goethe

On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin's reflections on the central figure in modern German culture. The writings in this volume-newly translated, fully annotated, and framed by an extensive…

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.

Caro Pirri

Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England

Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England shows how popular English dramatists such as William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson took inspiration from early records of England's American conqu…

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Tod und Verklärung op. 24 (1889)

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…

Peter Budrin

Laurence Sterne and His Readers in Early Soviet Russia

This book examines the 1920s and 1930s as a critical juncture in the rich history of the Russian reception of Laurence Sterne, author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1759-1767) and A Sentimen…