Friedrich Wilh. Bergmann 
Strassburger Volksgespräche in ihrer Mundart [PDF ebook] 
Vorgetragen und in sprachlicher, literarischer und sittengeschichtlicher hinsicht erläutert

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on  »European Shakespeares », proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare »s literary craft was not just nativ …

Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English offers a constructive dialogue on the concept of the transmodern, focusing on the works by very different contemporary authors from all …

Arjun Appadurai’s 1996 collection of essays Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization helped reshape how anthropologists, geographers and philosophers saw and understood the key topic …

Demonstrating and defending a method of close reading and historical contextualisation of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, this collection of essays by Tom Mc Alindon combines a number of previous …

‘References to clothing in the nineteenth-century naturalist novel have traditionally been read merely as examples of descriptive detail. Thompson, in her groundbreaking study on Zola, rescues clothi …

In this landmark book, leading international scholars from North America, Europe and the UK offer a sustained critical attention to the concept of silence in Joyce »s writing. Examining Joyce »s majo …

This guide to Victorian Literature and Culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and its context from 1837-1900, including: – the historical, cultural and intellectual backg …

This book evaluates Carl Van Vechten »s contribution to the Harlem Renaissance by presenting hitherto unexamined documentary evidence. The author draws on correspondence, manuscripts, personal memora …

Published in 1994: In The Perilous Cemetery adventure, Gawain is required to fight the devil himself. In repayment for having cured a young woman of madness, the devil keeps her entombed in a grave b …

This original collection explores a number of significant texts produced in 1944 that define that year as a textual turning point when overlapping and diverging visions of a new world emerged. The qu …