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1590s Drama and Militarism is a fascinating interdisciplinary study of various textual interventions into the military realities of the late Elizabethan period. Its major strength is its insistence o …

Jane Austen is not usually associated with children – especially since she had none of her own. But there are in fact more children in her novels than one might at first think. She herself was from a …

Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, ‘The Death of the Author, ‘ argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation beca …

Biblical Limits is a new series which brings to the traditional field of Biblical Studies literary criticism, anthropology and gender-based approaches, thus reaching new ways of understanding Biblica …

Turns a critical eye on Aesop”s Fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop”s portrayal of his animals. Despite originating more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop”s Fa …

"The fatal glove" is a literary criticism and thrilling book written by Clara August. The book describes the story in a captivating way which follows the journey of Constance Danforth, a yo …

Challenging the longstanding interpretation of the early English public sphere as polite, inclusive, and egalitarian this book re-interprets key texts by representative male authors from the period—A …

This is a well written and valuable study of the life of a familiar but still somehow shadowy figure and an important contribution to medieval intellectual history, with insights into the meaning of …

The relationship between law and literature is rich and complex. In the past three and half decades, the topic has received much attention from literary critics and legal scholars studying modern lit …

In The Difficulties of Modernism, Leonard Diepeveen examines how difficulty became central to our encounters with modern literature and culture. Literary modernism”s first readers often complained t …