Christopher D’Addario 
Urban Aesthetics in Early Modern London [PDF ebook] 
The Invention of the Metaphysical

‚The Scarlet Letter has proved our most enduring classic, ‚ writes Sacvan Bercovitch, ‚because it is the liberal example par excellence of art as ideological mimesis. To understand the office of the …

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on “European Shakespeares“, proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare“s literary craft was not just nativ …

Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English offers a constructive dialogue on the concept of the transmodern, focusing on the works by very different contemporary authors from all …

Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradbury’s Elliott family stories are a unique component of his extensive literary output. Writte …

The Golden Fountain Or, The Soul’s Love for God Being Some Thoughts and Confessions of One of His Lovers by Lilian Staveley is a deeply spiritual work that explores themes of devotion and divine conn …

First published in 1991, this book radically challenged the view of Nana as the story of an old fashioned femme fatale and reinterprets her as a feminist heroine who manages to overturn patriarchy. T …

Arjun Appadurai’s 1996 collection of essays Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization helped reshape how anthropologists, geographers and philosophers saw and understood the key topic …

This book, first published in 2000, explores the intersections of race, gender and gay identities in writings by contemporary American lesbians of colour in order to show how this subject is sometime …

Exploring the ways in which women have formed and defined expressions of culture in a range of geographical, political, and historical settings, this collection of essays examines women“s figurative …

Demonstrating and defending a method of close reading and historical contextualisation of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, this collection of essays by Tom Mc Alindon combines a number of previous …