David Loewenstein & Janel Mueller 
Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature [PDF ebook] 

This volume offers new and challenging interdisciplinary approaches to the use and study of literary archives. Interrogating literary and archival methodology and foregrounding new forms of textual s …

This provocative analysis and critique of American representations of Oceania and Oceanians from the nineteenth century to the present, argues that imperial fantasies have glossed over a complex, vio …

In a period of ongoing debate about faith, identity, migration and culture, this timely study explores the often politicised nature of constructions of one of Britain’s longest standing minority comm …

This book presents a selection of some of the most significant critical work written on Andre Gide during his lifetime and since. As a major writer of the twentieth-century, his life and creative out …

Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence o …

Byzantine poetry of the eleventh century is fascinating, yet underexplored terrain. It presents a lively view on contemporary society, is often permeated with wit and elegance, and is concerned with …

Much of the criticism on Stephenie Meyer »s immensely popular  »Twilight » novels has underrated or even disparaged the books while belittling the questionable taste of an audience that many believe …

How fictional representations of dead bodies develop over the twentieth century is the central concern of Lisa K. Perdigao »s study of American writers. Arguing that the crisis of bodily representati …

In her exhaustive publishing history of Frances Burney »s Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress, Catherine Parisian mines an extensive archival record that includes portions of the original manuscript, a …

This book shows how pirates were portrayed in their own time, in trial reports, popular prints, novels, legal documents, sermons, ballads and newspaper accounts. It examines how attitudes towards the …