Ben Etherington & Jarad Zimbler 
Cambridge Companion to World Literature [PDF ebook] 

This three-volume collection of primary sources examines philosophy and literature in the nineteenth-century Britain. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great i …

Incorporating a rich series of case-studies covering a range of geographical areas, this collection of essays examines the history of modern intellectuals in the Islamic world throughout the twentiet …

Employing a variety of creative, interdisciplinary approaches, contributors examine early modern Spanish children’s lives, the role of children within the larger family, adult perceptions of childhoo …

This volume strengthens interest and research in the fields of both Childhood Studies and Nordic Studies by exploring conceptions of children and childhood in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, …

The most prolific historian of early modern German literature in the twentieth century, Klaus Garber has largely remained unknown to English-language scholars. The seven essays selected here are tran …

The Bible in the American Short Story examines Biblical influences in the post-World War II American short story. In a series of accessible chapters, Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg and Peter S. Hawkins o …

‘Members of the Florentine family of the Donati feature prominently in Dante”s Divine Comedy . Their presence is explored by Piero Boitani, as a ”comedy” within the Comedy, in close readings of th …

In this study, Russell explores the ways in which Willa Cather and Toni Morrison subvert the textual expectations of gendered geography and push against the boundaries of the official canon. As Russe …

The Ethical Vision of George Eliot is one of the first monographs devoted entirely to the ethical thought of George Eliot, a profoundly significant, influential figure not only in nineteenth-century …

This book draws on the philosopher René Girard to argue that three twentieth-century American novels (Jeffrey Eugenides”s The Virgin Suicides, Rick Moody”s The Ice Storm, and Richard Yates”s Revol …