Paula McQuade 
Catechisms and Women’s Writing in Seventeenth-Century England [EPUB ebook] 

Philosophical Romanticism is one of the first books to address the relationship between philosophy and romanticism, an area which is currently undergoing a major revival. This collection of specially …

First published in 2003.When Amitava Kumar left Patna, India, he envisioned himself as an up-and-coming citizen of the world, leaving behind the confines of Indian traditions. Yet like the wave of ex …

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer”s work, enabling student and researche …

First published in 2007. This seminal work on the influence of Early Christian literature upon European thought and culture, was written by the unrivalled expert in the field, who devoted twelve year …

The enduring power of many antebellum American texts trace their inspiration to Puritanism. From Melville”s preposterous but irresponsible quarrels with God to Hawthorne”s instructed yet edgy evoca …

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 …

Browne”s famous work, first published in 1902, was the essential text on literary history in Persian studies for many years. As an overview of Persian literature from the earliest times until Firdaw …

This book examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime, and is divided into three parts: history, theory, and praxis. Arguing against the simplistic divisio …

In Joseph Conrad’s tales, representations of women and of ‘feminine’ generic forms like the romance are often present in fugitive ways. Conrad’s use of allegorical feminine imagery, fleet or deferred …

As one of Okinawa”s most insightful writers and social critics, Medoruma Shun has highlighted the problems and limits of conventional representation of the Battle of Okinawa, raised new questions an …