Richard Freadman 
Eliot, James and the Fictional Self [PDF ebook] 
A Study in Character and Narration

Originally published in 1978, this study presents a detailed analysis of the major literary movements in Austria and Germany from the end of the nineteenth century to the collapse of the Third Reich. …

At last! Everything you ever wanted to know about postmodernism but were afraid to ask. Hans Bertens” Postmodernism is the first introductory overview of postmodernism to succeed in providing a witt …

Thomas Paine’s 1776 Common Sense has secured an unshakeable place as one of history’s most explosive and revolutionary books. A slim pamphlet published at the beginning of the American Revolution, it …

Bringing together leading international scholars, John Banville and His Precursors explores Booker and Franz Kafka prize-winning Irish author John Banville”s most significant intellectual influences …

Is Laurence Sterne one of the great Christian apologists? Ryan Stark recommends him as such, perhaps to the detriment of the parson”s roguish reputation. The book”s aim, however, is not to dispel r …

Lucretius” On the Nature of Things – one of the glories of Latin literature – provides a vivid poetic exposition of the doctrines of the Greek atomist, Epicurus. The poem played a crucial role in th …

This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, …

Dorothy Wordsworth has a unique place in literary studies. Notoriously self-effacing, she assiduously eschewed publication, yet in her lifetime, her journals inspired William to write some of his bes …

This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century interwar peri …

The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge. Irony depends upon interpretation; it happens in the tricky, unpredictable space between expression and understanding. I …