Timothy R. Hands 
Thomas Hardy: Distracted Preacher? [PDF ebook] 
Hardy’s Religious Biography and its Influence on his Novels

A comprehensive analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare”s reception by major American writers and poets. …

Focusing on four aspects of Chaucer”s poetics-use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language-this is the first book-length study to identify Chaucer”s distinctive poetic strategies by …

‘Three essays on the nature of the bonds between Vita Nuova and Convivio; the nature and significance of the Donna Gentile, Dante”s ”second love”; and the imaginative and intellectual coherence of …

For John Henry Newman, religion is animated by an imaginative ”master vision” which ”supplies the mind with spiritual life and peace”. All his life, Newman reflected on this ”master vision”. Hi …

Chicago and the Making of American Modernism is the first full-length study of the vexed relationship between America”s great modernist writers and the nation”s “second city.” Michelle E. Moore exp …

Reinterpreting Badiou”s philosophy in light of both his persistent, reverent invocations of the German-Jewish poet Paul Celan, and his long-term engagement with Samuel Beckett, Badiou, Poem and Subj …

How is the medieval world depicted today? Two German museums serve as case studies for a vibrant, imaginative, and provocative enactment of twenty-first century medievalism: the Museum Wolfram von Es …

Contact, Conquest and Colonization brings together international historians and literary studies scholars in order to explore the force of practices of comparing in shaping empires and colonial relat …

This book traces the genealogy of ‘women’s fiction’ in South Asia and looks at the interesting and fascinating world of fiction by Muslim women. It explores how Muslim women have contributed to the g …

The influence of classical antiquity on the religious disciplines, theology, mysticism and law of Islam cannot be overestimated. This work demonstrates the significance of the classical heritage by d …