Ingo Berensmeyer & Gert Buelens 
Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship [PDF ebook] 

In her analysis of the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee»s literary and intellectual career, Jane Poyner illuminates the author»s abiding preoccupation with what Poyner calls the ‘paradox of pos …

The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three volume …

A study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen»s writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history. It looks at depictions of reading in …

This study collects together many of the original texts from the long-running debate which surrounded the rise of English as an academic subject. Most of the texts were ephemeral and have been long o …

Susan Paterson Glover here presents, in modern type, a critical edition of the first printed work by an English woman writer, Sarah Chapone, on the inequity of the common law regime for married women …

The influence of Cicero is everywhere to be found. His rhetorical and philosophical writings have made an inescapable impact on the history of western culture, impressing figures such as Augustine, J …

The Bible has always enjoyed notoriety within the genres of crime fiction and drama; numerous authors have explicitly drawn on biblical traditions as thematic foci to explore social anxieties about v …

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 …

Politically the 1910s and 1920s were dark days for Japan: economic instability, frequent political assassinations, and increasing violent military interventions at home and overseas affected many. Th …

Originally published in 1982, this book includes The Arte of Rhetorique by Thomoas Wilson, alongisde a critical analysis by Thomoas J. Derrick. It includes chapters on biographical context, a critica …