John Whale 
Imagination under Pressure, 1789-1832 [PDF ebook] 
Aesthetics, Politics and Utility

Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English offers a constructive dialogue on the concept of the transmodern, focusing on the works by very different contemporary authors from all …

Migrating Shakespeare offers the first study of the earliest waves of Shakespeare»s migration into Europe. Charting the spread of the reception and production of his plays across the continent, it e …

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary reference work essential for students and researchers interested in the field of love, romance and popular romanc …

This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown»s Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative for …

First published in 2005. Volumes in the Medieval History and Culture series include studies on individual works and authors of Latin and vernacular literatures, historical personalities and events, t …

Jataka stories (stories about the previous births of the Buddha) are very popular in Theravada Buddhist countries, where they are found in both canonical texts and later compositions and collections, …

In her analysis of the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee»s literary and intellectual career, Jane Poyner illuminates the author»s abiding preoccupation with what Poyner calls the ‘paradox of pos …

From its first issue, published on the 10th October 1802, Francis Jeffrey»s ‘Edinburgh Review’ established a strong reputation and exerted a powerful influence. This is a literary study of the ‘Edin …

How have nations and nationhood become the dominant form of political organization today? What is the role of culture in nationalism? In what ways have the ideological development of nationalisms in …

This book considers what evidence the ‘new Simonides’ fragments offer for Simonides» elegiac compositions on the Persian Wars. The current orthodoxy is that they represent three separate elegies on …