Robert Clarke 
History, Ideology and Myth in American Fiction, 1823-52 [PDF ebook] 

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 …

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 …

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 …

Scyld and Scef is the first comprehensive study of these heroic figures of Germanic legend, featured in much of the literature of the Middle Ages, including Beowulf, TheAnglo-Saxon Chronicle and the …

Beyond his pivotal place in the history of scientific thought, Charles Darwin”s writings and his theory of evolution by natural selection have also had a profound impact on art and culture and conti …

The Confessions of the Critics shatters a certain silence. Autobiographical criticism has until now skated relatively free from the challenges that usually assail a new literary critical method. It h …

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 …

Containing wide-ranging reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume presents a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the …

This volume of essays brings together critical analysis and commentary on the literary work of Michel Tournier. …

Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of popular fiction. Charting the rise of commer …