Byrne James P. Byrne & O’Sullivan Michael O’Sullivan 
Affecting Irishness [PDF ebook] 
Negotiating Cultural Identity Within and Beyond the Nation

Bringing together leading scholars and teacher educators from across the world, from Europe and the USA to Asia, this book presents the latest research and new perspectives into the uses of children’ …

In this beautifully illustrated and provocative study, Bridget Elliott and Jo-Ann Wallace reappraise women”s literary and artistic contribution to Modernism. Through comparative case studies, includ …

Everyone knows something of nineteenth-century France – or do they? ‘Les Miserables’, ‘The Lady of the Camelias’ and ‘The Three Musketeers’, ‘Balzac’ and ‘Jules Verne’ live in the popular consciousne …

Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare”s London explores the intimate and dynamic relationship between acting companies and playwrights in this seminal era in English theatre history. Siobh …

This book, first published in 1994, sets ‘repertoire against raconteur’ in order to explore one of the world’s largest collections of folk literature. The author’s findings, and his creative and synt …

Interpreting human stories, whether those told by individuals, groups, organizations, nations, or even civilizations, opens a wide scope of research options for understanding how people construct, sh …

In his study of the origins of political reflection in twentieth-century African fiction, Donald Wehrs examines a neglected but important body of African texts written in colonial (English and French …

First published in 2002. This fascinating collection of essays examines the politics of gender and desire in premodern Iberia. Eukene Lacarra Lanz brings together a group of noted specialists in Arab …

Offering provocative readings of Tennyson”s Idylls of the King, Barrett Browning”s Aurora Leigh, Clough”s Amours de Voyage, and Browning”s The Ring and the Book, Clinton Machann brings to bear th …

Euripides” Bacchae is the magnum opus of the ancient world”s most popular dramatist and the most modern, perhaps postmodern, of Greek tragedies. Twentieth-century poets and playwrights have often t …