Inger H. Dalsgaard & Luc Herman 
Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon [PDF ebook] 

James Joyce and Classical Modernism contends that the classical world animated Joyce»s defiant, innovative creativity and cannot be separated from what is now recognized as his modernist aesthetic. …

150 years after Alice»s Adventures in Wonderland was first published, Lewis Carroll»s eponymous heroine has become one of the most familiar figures in the cultural landscape. The enduringly iconic …

Birgitta of Sweden (Birgitta Birgersdotter, 1302/03-1373) and her younger contemporary Catherine of Siena (Caterina Benincasa, 1347-1380) form the most powerful and influential female duo in European …

Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play in li …

Biblical Limits is a new series which brings to the traditional field of Biblical Studies literary criticism, anthropology and gender-based approaches, thus reaching new ways of understanding Biblica …

Beginning with a subtle and persuasive analysis of the cultural context, Farebrother examines collage in modernist and Harlem Renaissance figurative art and unearths the collage sensibility attendant …

Beginning with the premise that men and women of the Romantic period were lively interlocutors who participated in many of the same literary traditions and experiments, Fellow Romantics offers an …

This is the first full-length study of Jeanette Winterson»s complete oeuvre, offering detailed analysis of her nine novels as well as addressing her non-fiction and minor fictional work. Susana …

Thomas Hardy»s ‘The Dynasts’ and Leo Tolstoy»s ‘War & Peace’ are both works which defy attempts to assign them to a particular genre but might seem to have little else in common apart from being …

An excellent account of, and reflection on, each diverse stage of American literary giant Philip Roth»s fifty-year career, this book also looks outwards, touching on other aspects of intellectual …