Literatura

This is the standard reference guide to the works of Charles Dickens. The material is arranged alphabetically, in dictionary style, and provides a quick means of reference to the plots of the novels …

The documents collected in this volume, first published in 1970, trace the development of novel criticism during one of the most formative periods in the history of fiction: from 1700-1800. The mater …

Lucy Pearson’s lively and engaging book examines British children’s literature during the period widely regarded as a ’second golden age’. Drawing extensively on archival material, Pearson investigat …

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 …

Defoe”s Writings and Manliness is a timely intervention in Defoe studies and in the study of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature more generally. Arguing that Defoe”s writings insistently r …

This book examines the connections between two disparate yet persistently bound thematics – mobility and intoxication – and explores their central yet frequently misunderstood role in constructing …

First published in 1970. This volume is part of the Eighteenth Century Shakespeare series, a reprinting of the third edition, with the first being available in 1785. Thomas Whatley was a politician a …

Medical texts written in English during the late Middle Ages have in recent years attracted increasing attention among scholars. From approximately 1375 onwards, the use of English began to gain a fi …

Hailed by critics during the 1980s as the decade”s ”Great American Playwright”, Sam Shepard continued to produce work in a wide array of media including short prose, films, plays, performances and …

Charting the period that extends from the 1860s to the 1940s, this volume offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and Modernism. By acknowledging that both movements had a passion for the ‘new’, it …