Ann Baynes Coiro & Thomas Fulton 
Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton [PDF ebook] 

Philosophical Romanticism is one of the first books to address the relationship between philosophy and romanticism, an area which is currently undergoing a major revival. This collection of specially …

Once Upon a Time in a Different World, a unique addition to the celebrated Children’s Literature and Culture series, seeks to move discussions and treatments of ideas in African America Children’s li …

This book examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime, and is divided into three parts: history, theory, and praxis. Arguing against the simplistic divisio …

All too often, the history of poetry criticism in the 20th Century is told as a tale of two sides. While ”Lit crit” pored over the author”s every line, ”Theory” stood on the shoulder of texts to …

Flann O”Brien – also known as Brian O”Nolan or Myles na g Copaleen – is now widely recognised as one of the foremost of Ireland”s modern authors. Assembling Flann O”Brien explores the author”s i …

In Joseph Conrad’s tales, representations of women and of ‘feminine’ generic forms like the romance are often present in fugitive ways. Conrad’s use of allegorical feminine imagery, fleet or deferred …

Through the comparative study of literatures from the United States and Latin America, Segregated Miscegenation questions received notions of race and nation. Carlos Hiraldo examines the current unde …

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and i …

Death, Men and Modernism argues that the figure of the dead man becomes a locus of attention and a symptom of crisis in British writing of the early to mid-twentieth century. While Victorian writers …

First Published in 1977. This book defines popular literature, and traces its development in England from the beginnings of printing to the year 1897, and provides a critical survey of sources availa …