Santanu Das 
Race, Empire and First World War Writing [PDF ebook] 

The first full-length study of the reception of John Milton’s (1608-74) writings in the Arab-Muslim world, this book examines the responses of Arab-Muslim readers to Milton’s works, and in particular …

‚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 …

What if the Renaissance had the right idea about character? Most readers today think that characters are individuals. Poets of the Renaissance understood characters as types. They thought the job of …

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 …

Published in 1995: The present volume contains two comparatively lengthy Latin hexameter poems that emanated from this circle. One is by Richard Eedes; the other is anonymous, although for the purpos …

Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity: Commercial Cosmopolitanism turns to the author’s late fiction, letters, and essays to investigate his contribution to the development of an American cosmo …

General Gordon“s death in the Sudan marks the height of imperial cultural fever. Even in the late nineteen seventies, the themes of Khartoum were still the basis for children“s stories, comic books …

World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticoloni …

Modernist Wastes is a profound new critical reflection on the ways in which women writers and artists have been discarded and recovered in established definitions of modernism. Exploring the collabor …