The essays in this volume take up the challenge of working out — or reworking — the problematics of the borders, the boundaries and the frameworks that structure our various and multiple notions of …

From 1888 to 1915 Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London were uniquely placed to witness and record the imperial struggle for the South Pacific. Engaging the major European colonial empires and the U …

First Published in 2005. Distinctly interdisciplinary, Kingship, Conquest, andPatria brings together French and Welsh studies with literary and historical analysis, genre study with questions of medi …

Studies of Palestinian society, economy, and politics are appearing with increasing frequency, but works in English about Palestinian literature, particularly that written in Israel, are still scarce …

First Published in 1993.This study seeks to analyze shamanism and initiation from the perspective of shamans, rather than from the laity”s point of view. One of the aims of this research has been to …

This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of linguistic change with much greater precision tha …

This is an analysis of sexual themes in the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, both in the context of the Jacobean theatre and in the light of modern readings of sexuality and gender during the English …

This study provides an authoritative overview of all Marlowe”s work. It includes thorough investigations of his major plays, Tamburlaine, Edward II, The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus as well as a …

For more than a decade literary criticism has been thought to be in a post-theory age. Despite this, the work of thinkers such as Derrida, Deleuze and Foucault and new writers such as Agamben and Ran …

”This book is nothing short of brilliant. It is bursting with new observations, pithy readings and sensitive analyses. One of Hope”s skills is to show us that ”language” is not separable from ”i …