Christy Desmet & Tetsuo Kishi 
Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part IV, Volume 3 [PDF ebook] 
Helen Faucit, Lucia Elizabeth Vestris and Fanny Kemble by Their Contemporaries

Migrating Shakespeare offers the first study of the earliest waves of Shakespeare”s migration into Europe. Charting the spread of the reception and production of his plays across the continent, it e …

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary reference work essential for students and researchers interested in the field of love, romance and popular romanc …

From its first issue, published on the 10th October 1802, Francis Jeffrey”s ‘Edinburgh Review’ established a strong reputation and exerted a powerful influence. This is a literary study of the ‘Edin …

Religion in the USA manifests itself in many forms and this book examines them, from religion in the early republic, to early African American religion, reform, nativism movements, and fundamentalism …

Mimesis is a critical and philosophical term going back to Aristotle. It carries a wide range of meanings, including imitation, representation, mimicry, the act of expression, and the presentation of …

Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later eighteenth century. In this book, Nandini Bhatt …

The Northeast Indian borderlands, a cultural crossroads between South, Southeast and East Asia, constitute an important post-colonial exception to the narratives of nation, troubling the common perce …

From William Shakespeare to Marilynne Robinson, this book examines representations of interpersonal reconciliation in works of literature, focusing on how these representations draw on the language o …

An excellent account of, and reflection on, each diverse stage of American literary giant Philip Roth”s fifty-year career, this book also looks outwards, touching on other aspects of intellectual li …

In 15 all-new essays, this volume explores how science fiction and fantasy draw on materials from ancient Greece and Rome, ”displacing” them from their original settings-in time and space, in point …