Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
Elective Affinities, Essays, and Letters by Goethe [EPUB ebook] 

Kashmiri Life Narratives takes as its central focus writings — memoirs, non-fictional and fictional Bildungsromane — published circa 2008 by Kashmiris/Indians living in the Valley of Kashmir, India …

First published in 1969, this book provides a concise and helpful introduction to the terms ‘fancy’ and ‘imagination’. Although they are generally associated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the work be …

Nicky Hallett has uncovered a major new source of material by and about English nuns living in exile in the Low Countries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This volume presents the wom …

Interpreting human stories, whether those told by individuals, groups, organizations, nations, or even civilizations, opens a wide scope of research options for understanding how people construct, sh …

 »British Studies » and  »British Cultural Studies » cover a wide range of facets of contemporary Britain. Studying British Cultures: An Introduction is a unique collection of essays which examine th …

First published in 2012. Michel Foucault was a different kind of intellectual from his predecessors, one whose work articulated a new relation both to the institutions in which he worked and to a wid …

Are Jane Austen and Charles Darwin the two great English empiricists of the nineteenth century? Peter W. Graham poses this question as he brings these two icons of nineteenth-century British culture …

As long as there have been fans, there has been fan fiction. There seems to be a fundamental human need to tell additional stories about the characters after the book, series, play or movie is over. …

A collection of prefaces, reviews and articles by Americans on American and European fiction. Charted in these three volumes, which span 1776 to 1900, is the movement from anxious defences of the nov …

First published in 1971, this book explores the theme of the pastoral in literature and the way in which it adapts itself to various forms. It examines some of the ways in which it has manifested its …