Alexandra Gillespie & Daniel Wakelin 
Production of Books in England 1350-1500 [PDF ebook] 

Beginning with the premise that women“s perceptions of manliness are crucial to its construction, The author focuses on the life and writings of Charlotte Yonge as a prism for understanding the form …

Tracing the development of narrative verse in London“s literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare“s Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a w …

First published in 2000. The Other Reconstruction examines groundbreaking works by three African American women whose writings expose the economic, political, and social factors that sustained race v …

Arguing that contemporary celebrity authors like Zadie Smith, Ian Mc Ewan, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Eimear Mc Bride and Anna Burns position their work and public personae within a …

First published in 2003.When Amitava Kumar left Patna, India, he envisioned himself as an up-and-coming citizen of the world, leaving behind the confines of Indian traditions. Yet like the wave of ex …

The book analyzes American literature about middle or upper class characters who voluntarily descend the class ranks to experience vital contact by living or associating, temporarily, with the poor. …

For some time now, scholars have recognized the archive less as a neutral repository of documents of the past, and rather more as a politically interested representation of it, and recognized that th …

The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is undoubtedly one of the defining voices of our age. Since the Second World War, his work has had an enormous impact on generations of writers, philosophers, a …

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. Thi …

Native American Literature underwent a Renaissance around 1968, and the current canon of novels written in the late twentieth century in American English by Native American or mixed-blood authors is …