Johann Georg Jacobi & Ernst Martin 
Ungedruckte Briefe von und an Johann Georg Jacobi [PDF ebook] 
Mit einem Abrisse seines Lebens und seiner Dichtung

Through the comparative study of literatures from the United States and Latin America, Segregated Miscegenation questions received notions of race and nation. Carlos Hiraldo examines the current unde …

Everyone knows something of nineteenth-century France – or do they? ‘Les Miserables’, ‘The Lady of the Camelias’ and ‘The Three Musketeers’, ‘Balzac’ and ‘Jules Verne’ live in the popular consciousne …

One of our earliest surviving Greek tragedies, Aeschylus » Seven Against Thebes is an extraordinarily rich poetic text. It dramatises the civil war between the sons of Oedipus Polynices – the exile, …

Widely recommended, this guide to Conrad offers a vivid and incisive account of his life and literary career, and gives detailed attention to the contexts, themes, problems and paradoxes of his works …

This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror. Using th …

American publishing in the long nineteenth century was flooded with readers, primers, teaching-training manuals, children’s literature, and popular periodicals aimed at families. These publications a …

First published in 2006. Examining the constituting mechanism of the American wilderness myth in Modern American literature, Patricia Ross probes the various purposes for which  »wilderness » is cons …

British Chinese Writings: Subjectivity, Identity and Hybridity » is a study of British Chinese literature. As Dr Hsiao points out, investigation of British Chinese writings is a little studied area; …

Shakespeare »s plays are pervaded by political and economic words and concepts, not only in the histories and tragedies but also in the comedies and romances. The lexicon of political and economic la …

Myths reflect, reinforce, and sometimes subvert gender ideologies and so have an influence in the  »real world ». This is true in the present no less than when the Greek and Roman myths were created. …