Michael Clarke 
Achilles beside Gilgamesh [PDF ebook] 
Mortality and Wisdom in Early Epic Poetry

This work offers an examination of religious texts written by twelve women over three centuries in two languages and three genres, showing the variety and complexity of gendered images available to m …

Thomas Hobbes is a towering figure in the history of modern thought and political philosophy. He remains best remembered for his 1651 treatise on government, Leviathan, a work that shows at the very …

First published in 1991, Textual Communication examines the character and development of the novel from Richardson to Nabokov in relation to the printing and publishing industry. The book blends lite …

Marcus Gheeraerts’s portrait of a ’Persian lady’ – probably in fact an English lady in masquing costume – exemplifies the hybridity of early modern English culture. Her surrounding landscape and the …

Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. ”Deep Classics” is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of th …

How and to what extent did women writers shape and inform the aesthetics of Romanticism? Were undervalued genres such as the romance, gothic fiction, the tale, and the sentimental and philosophical n …

Hercules is the best-known character from classical mythology. Seneca”s play Hercules Furens presents the hero at a moment of triumph turned to tragedy. Hercules returns from his final labor, his jo …

One of the few available books of criticism on the topic, this monograph presents the fullest account to date of Don De Lillo”s writing, situating his oeuvre within a wider analysis of the condition …

This is the ideal guide for those studying contemporary fiction for the first time. The last twenty-five years have seen an explosion of new developments in the English language novel. Because of its …

During the so-called Age of Melancholy, many writers invoked both traditional and new conceptualizations of the disease in order to account for various types of social turbulence, ranging from discon …