Philip Schwyzer 
Literature, Nationalism, and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales [PDF ebook] 

This study reveals Greene in a dual role as author, one who projects literary experience into his view of life and subsequently projects both his experience and its ‘literary’ interpretation into his …

Roman epic is both index and critique of the foundational culture of the western world. It is one of Europe”s most persistent and determinant poetic modes. In this book distinguished Latinists exami …

The essays in this collection, first published in 1987, represent a collective attempt to listen with the third ear to the underhand ways the unspoken has of speaking, and to speak of these ways. By …

This unique collection of extracts is taken from women”s journals and magazines – both British and American – on the eve of the twentieth century. Arranged by subject, the collection focuses on what …

Annabel Patterson tackles the hottest topic in literary studies today – `the Great Books debate – providing a superbly formulated moderate stance between the Western canon”s radical oppponents and i …

Originally published in 1960. Is there an art of autobiography? What are its origins and how has it come to acquire the form we know today? For what does the autobiographer seek, and why should it be …

Following scholarship on gender in science fiction, this book explores the limits of considering age as a social construction, positing that an acknowledgement of aged bodies necessarily changes the …

Tod Chambers suggests that literary theory is a crucial component in the complete understanding of bioethics. The Fiction of Bioethics explores the medical case study and distills the idea that bioet …

The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature examines how English writers responded to the cultural shock caused by the first substantial encounter between China and Western Europe. Author …

How and to what extent did women writers shape and inform the aesthetics of Romanticism? Were undervalued genres such as the romance, gothic fiction, the tale, and the sentimental and philosophical n …