Joanna Freer 
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This landmark volume is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information S …

In the first comprehensive study of Virginia Woolf”s Common Reader, Katerina Koutsantoni draws on theorists from the fields of sociology, sociolinguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism to inve …

First published in 2002. This fascinating collection of essays examines the politics of gender and desire in premodern Iberia. Eukene Lacarra Lanz brings together a group of noted specialists in Arab …

Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book examines the historical and the fictionalized reception of Ovid’s poetry in the literature and books of Tudor England. It does so through the study of a part …

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been considered a particularly British writer in part as his official post as Poet Laureate inevitably committed him to a certain amount of patriotic writin …

How fictional representations of dead bodies develop over the twentieth century is the central concern of Lisa K. Perdigao”s study of American writers. Arguing that the crisis of bodily representati …

Bede (c. 673-735) was Anglo-Saxon England’s most prominent scholar, and his body of work is among the most important intellectual achievements of the entire Middle Ages. Bede and the Future brings to …

In her critical biography of Anna Seward (1742-1809), Teresa Barnard examines the poet”s unpublished letters and manuscripts, providing a fresh perspective on Seward”s life and historical milieu th …

Linking fiction with history and historical theory, ”A New Type of History”: Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past focuses on a selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists – To …

Within the context of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and his influence on Jorge Luis Borges, Manuel Puig and Gabriel Marquez, Paul Kong brings a variety of theoretical perspectives to bear as he analyz …