Philip Smallwood 
Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson [PDF ebook] 
Forms of Artistry and Thought

Women”s Experimental Writing considers six contemporary authors who use experimental methods and negative modes of critique in their fiction and feminism. The authors covered are Valerie Solanas, Ka …

Using the example of The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter to explore the impact of new media and technologies on how children learn about stories and reading, this book investigates nearly 100 …

Saints are currently undergoing a resurrection in middle grade and young adult fiction, as recent prominent novels by Socorro Acioli, Julie Berry, Adam Gidwitz, Rachel Hartman, Merrie Haskell, Gene L …

Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, 'The Death of the Author, ’ argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation beca …

Turns a critical eye on Aesop”s Fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop”s portrayal of his animals. Despite originating more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop”s Fa …

Romantic Border Crossings participates in the important movement towards ”otherness” in Romanticism, by uncovering the intellectual and disciplinary anxieties that surround comparative studies of B …

Bookending the chronology of this collection are two crucial moments in the histories of pain, trauma, and their staging in British theater: the establishment of secular and professional theater in L …

’If the past is indeed a foreign country, then how can we make sense of its richness and difference, without approaching it on our terms alone? ”Pre-histories” and ”afterlives”, methods that have …

This study of the many poets, musicians and visual artists portrayed or described in Shakespeare”s plays and poems reveals a fascination with art and its makers that continued to influence Shakespea …

To the English reader the mysticism of Rumi opens a new world of spiritual and poetical experience. 'God is One but religions are many’ runs the Sufi teaching; and the English reader can here enlarge …