Etudes littéraires

"Roger Kyffin’s Ward" by William Henry Giles Kingston is an adventurous maritime novel that follows the youthful and courageous protagonist, Roger Kyffin. The story revolves around Roger, w …

The Happy Prince, and Other Tales" is a collection of fairy tales and short stories written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1888. The stories are renowned for their blend of whimsy, moral …

This study interprets eighteenth-century satire’s famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment’s ‘ocularcentric’ epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural …

Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty, biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative liberal and secular understanding of India’s religious identity is …

This study argues that this previously banned author devoted his entire life to articulating a religion of self-liberation in his autobiographical books, examining his life and work within the contex …

Thomas Hardy is not generally recognized as an imperial writer, even though he wrote during a period of major expansion of the British Empire. Bownas examines the many references to past empires in H …

This is a well written and valuable study of the life of a familiar but still somehow shadowy figure and an important contribution to medieval intellectual history, with insights into the meaning of …

First published in 1972. Shakespeare »s writing abounds with legal terms and allusions and in many of the plays the concept and working of the law is a significant theme. Shakespeare and the Lawyers …

This text chronicles a change in epistolary persuasion in the 1230 »s, crystallized at the imperial chancery of Frederick II, Emperor from 1220-1250. There, traditional appeals, premised on authority …

Departing from a refreshing look at the ideas of Antonin Artaud, this book provides a thorough analysis of how both Sarah Kane and Samuel Beckett are indebted to his legacy. In juxtaposing these play …