Kristin Gjesdal 
Herder’s Hermeneutics [EPUB ebook] 
History, Poetry, Enlightenment

Following the publication of The Age of Innocence in 1920, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. To mark 100 years since the book»s first publication, Edith Wharton»s The …

This volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of how the five canonical Greek novels represent slaves and slavery. In each novel, one or both elite protagonists are enslaved, and Owens explore …

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 Philosophy of Matter is a journey in thinking through the material fate of the earth itself; its surfaces and undercurrrents, ecologies, environments and irreparable cracks. With figures such as …

Political theory offers a great variety of interpretive traditions and models. Today, pluralism is the paradigm. But are all approaches equally useful? What are their limits and possibilities? Can we …

This book explores the areas in which novels such as Chariton’s Callirhoe and Heliodorus’s Aithiopika are ideal beyond the ideal love relationship and considers how concepts of the ideal connect to a …

In the mid-nineteenth century, American and British governments marched with great fanfare into the marketplace of knowledge and publishing. British royal commissions of inquiry, inspectorates, and p …

This text offers scholarly and critical editions of significant novels of Gothic fiction from the Romantic period. It illustrates the various forms of female Gothic literature as a vehicle for repres …

Shakespeare»s plays have long been open to reimagining and reinterpretation, from John Fletcher»s riposte to The Taming of the Shrew in 1611 to present day spin-offs in a whole range of media, incl …

This original collection of essays explores the work and life choices of Spanish women who, through their writings and social activism, addressed social justice, religious dogmatism, the educational …