Nyman Jopi Nyman 
Hard-Boiled Fiction and Dark Romanticism [PDF ebook] 

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 …

Migrating Shakespeare offers the first study of the earliest waves of Shakespeare“s migration into Europe. Charting the spread of the reception and production of his plays across the continent, it e …

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary reference work essential for students and researchers interested in the field of love, romance and popular romanc …

From its first issue, published on the 10th October 1802, Francis Jeffrey“s ‚Edinburgh Review‘ established a strong reputation and exerted a powerful influence. This is a literary study of the ‚Edin …

Religion in the USA manifests itself in many forms and this book examines them, from religion in the early republic, to early African American religion, reform, nativism movements, and fundamentalism …

Mimesis is a critical and philosophical term going back to Aristotle. It carries a wide range of meanings, including imitation, representation, mimicry, the act of expression, and the presentation of …

The “city view“ forms the jumping off point for this innovative study, which explores how the concept of the city relates to the idea of the self in early modern French narratives. At a time when p …

This study examines the performed poetry of Charlotte Mew, Anna Wickham, Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith, Liz Lochhead, and Jackie Kay as an alternative radical tradition of British poetry, developed to …

Feces, urine, flatus, phlegm, vomitus – unlike ourselves, our most educated forebears did not disdain these functions, and, further, they employed scatological references in all manner of works. This …

Having identified the literary origins of the Faustus legend in the German Faust Book (1587) and its English translation (1592), this book argues that these works transformed a simple rogue“s tale i …