William Shakespeare 
Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark. König Richard der Zweite [PDF ebook] 

This book, first published in 1931, shows in a simple, sound and lucid manner how the genius of two poets (Omar Khayyam and Fitz Gerald) brought together by the genius of an Orientalist (Professor Co …

Alison Holland’s innovative book fills a gap in Beauvoir studies by focusing on the writer’s frequently neglected novels and short stories, L’Invitée, Les Mandarins, Les Belles Images, and La Femme r …

The first American surrealist poet, a prolific literary editor and a seminal influence on the New York School of poetry, Charles Henri Ford was a key figure in the transition from late modernist to p …

The title page of the 1651 continuation of Sir Philip Sidney »s Arcadia, which is made available in facsimile in this volume, designates its author as  »Mris A. W. » It is now the convention to attri …

Originally published in 1994. Chaucer is considered the first major humorist in English literature and is particularly interesting as he reflects the humor of predecessors and contemporaries as well …

Winner of the DHLSNA Biennial Award for a Book by a Newly Published Scholar Exploring draft manuscripts, alternative texts and publishers » typescripts, The Many Drafts of D. H. Lawrence reveals new …

New insights from cognitive theory and literary ecocriticism have the power to transform our understanding of one of the most important literary genres: the lyric poem. In Cognitive Ecopoetics, Sharo …

Originally published in 1926, this title was edited from a series of lectures the author gave to raise money for her theatre group the Lena Ashwell Players. Through her work as a producer the author …

Nations are built by narrating their past. Threads of common memories weave the fabric of the national culture, integrating the heterogenous communities into the idea of a single nation. In multicult …

This volume explores how India as a geographical space was constructed by the British colonial regime in visual and material terms. It demonstrates the instrumentalisation of cultural artefacts such …