Paul Eggert 
Work and the Reader in Literary Studies [EPUB ebook] 
Scholarly Editing and Book History

Originally published in 1978, this study presents a detailed analysis of the major literary movements in Austria and Germany from the end of the nineteenth century to the collapse of the Third Reich. …

At last! Everything you ever wanted to know about postmodernism but were afraid to ask. Hans Bertens» Postmodernism is the first introductory overview of postmodernism to succeed in providing a witt …

Writing landscapes inevitably occurs in dialogue with a long textual and pictorial tradition, but first-hand experience also provides key stimuli to many writers’ accounts. This monograph employs a c …

This volume makes available to teachers, students, and scholars a convenient selection of the most provocative and influential articles from the past 20 years on Chaucer»s afterlife in the 15th cent …

Thomas Paine’s 1776 Common Sense has secured an unshakeable place as one of history’s most explosive and revolutionary books. A slim pamphlet published at the beginning of the American Revolution, it …

Contemporary ideals of science representing disinterested and objective fields of investigation have their origins in the seventeenth century. However, »new science» did not simply or uniformly rep …

The second of two volumes of »Fiction of unknown or questionable authorship, 1641-1700, » this volume presents in facsimile two seventeenth-century novels, Alcander and Philocrates: Or, The Pleasur …

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 ins …

Alison Holland’s innovative book fills a gap in Beauvoir studies by focusing on the writer’s frequently neglected novels and short stories, L’Invitée, Les Mandarins, Les Belles Images, and La Femme r …

Anne Thompson here gives the fullest account and explanation to date of the diversity of the more than sixty manuscripts of the South English Legendary, a late thirteenth-century collection of lively …