A comprehensive analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare“s reception by major American writers and poets. …

Focusing on four aspects of Chaucer“s poetics-use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language-this is the first book-length study to identify Chaucer“s distinctive poetic strategies by …

For John Henry Newman, religion is animated by an imaginative “master vision“ which “supplies the mind with spiritual life and peace“. All his life, Newman reflected on this “master vision“. Hi …

Chicago and the Making of American Modernism is the first full-length study of the vexed relationship between America“s great modernist writers and the nation“s “second city.” Michelle E. Moore exp …

Reinterpreting Badiou“s philosophy in light of both his persistent, reverent invocations of the German-Jewish poet Paul Celan, and his long-term engagement with Samuel Beckett, Badiou, Poem and Subj …

How is the medieval world depicted today? Two German museums serve as case studies for a vibrant, imaginative, and provocative enactment of twenty-first century medievalism: the Museum Wolfram von Es …

This book traces the genealogy of ‘women’s fiction’ in South Asia and looks at the interesting and fascinating world of fiction by Muslim women. It explores how Muslim women have contributed to the g …

The revival of translation as a means of learning and teaching a foreign language and as a skill in its own right is occurring at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in universities. In this b …

The two note-books of the diary of Mme. Dostoevsky, the rough notes of her lengthy Reminiscences, unfinished at the time of her death, all in her own hand-writing, and copies of her husband’s letters …

American Literature Before 1880 attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlanti …