Patrick Grant 
Literature and the Discovery of Method in the English Renaissance [PDF ebook] 

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and i …

This wonderful resource from two authors with an infectious enthusiasm for children“s literature will help readers select and share quality books for and with young children. Specifically focused on …

Hillary M. Nunn here traces the connections between the London public“s interest in medical dissection and the changing cultural significance of bloodshed on the early Stuart playhouse stage. Consid …

Timely and politically pertinent, this collection of essays links the fields of women’s studies and cultural studies, examining women’s desires and women as objects of desire. Working in diverse disc …

‚Since the revelation of Iris Murdoch“s (1919-1999) affair with Elias Canetti (1905-1994), scholarship on their relationship has been largely biographical, focusing in particular on Canetti“s alleg …

‚The Russian literary world was shaken by the wide-reaching reforms of the late Soviet period (1985-91) and the Soviet Union“s subsequent collapse. During this time the phenomenon of “alternative“ …

John le Carré and the Cold War explores the historical contexts and political implications of le Carré“s major Cold-War novels. The first in-depth study of le Carré this century, this book analyses …

For women-identified writers of both eras, the fantastic offered double vision. Not only did the genre offer strategic cover for challenging the status quo, but also a heuristic mechanism for teasing …

This volume is a ground-breaking contribution to enlightenment studies and the international and cross-cultural history of print. The result of a five year research project, the volume traces the out …

This volume represents a rereading of modernism and the modernist canon from a double distance: geographical and temporal. It is a revision not only from the periphery (Spain and Latin America), but …