Karl Lachmann 
Der Nibelunge Noth und die Klage [PDF ebook] 
Nach der ältesten Überlieferung mit Bezeichnung des Unechten und mit den Abweichungen der gemeinen Lesart

Annabel Patterson tackles the hottest topic in literary studies today – `the Great Books debate – providing a superbly formulated moderate stance between the Western canon”s radical oppponents and i …

This study argues against vague interpretations of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative. A general theoretical section introduces recent work on fantasy, no …

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism”s Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this lin …

Doctor Faustus, is Christopher Marlowe”s most popular play and is often seen as one of the overwhelming triumphs of the English Renaissance. It has had a rich and varied critical history often arous …

In her timely contribution to revisionist approaches in modernist studies, Lorraine Sim offers a reading of Virginia Woolf”s conception of ordinary experience as revealed in her fiction and nonficti …

Filling an important gap in the history of print and reading, Elspeth Jajdelska offers a new account of the changing relationship between speech, rank and writing from 1600 to 1750. Jajdelska draws o …

A vogue for travel ’stunts’ flourished in England between 1590 and the 1620s: playful imitations or burlesques of maritime enterprise and overland travel that collectively appear to be a response to …

Arguing that the early Royal Society moved science toward racialization by giving skin color a new prominence as an object of experiment and observation, Cristina Malcolmson provides the first book-l …

First published in 1986. This outstanding collection of major essays by some of America’s finest literary scholars and critics provides students of American literature with a unique perspective of Am …

During his lifetime, the Jesuit priest Robert Persons (1546-1610) was arguably the leading figure fighting for the re-establishment of Catholicism in England. Whilst his colleague Edmund Campion may …