Richard Hunter & Ian Rutherford 
Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture [PDF ebook] 
Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism

Written during the Italian winter of 1930, The Blue Spill is an unfinished detective novel written by Ezra Pound – the leading figure of modernist poetry in the 20th century – and his long-time compa …

The <EM>Critical Heritage</EM> gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer»s work, enabling …

This book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers — including Emerson, Warner, and Melville — to render the stark rupture of loss in innovati …

In 1971, a war which took place in Pakistan that resulted in the establishment of two separate countries; East Pakistan became Bangladesh, leaving the remaining four western provinces to comprise a t …

The Continuum Contemporaries series gives readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years. This guide to Atone …

This book advocates, and develops, a critical account of the relationship between law and the largely neglected issue of ‘enjoyment’. Taking popular culture seriously – as a lived and meaningful basi …

Although often hailed as a »quintessentially American» writer, the modernist poet, novelist and playwright Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) spent most of her life in France. With chapters written by lead …

Whether commercial, personal, political, professional, or spiritual, knowledge was capital for the Victorians in their ongoing project of constructing a modern information-based society. Victorian Se …

Combining literary analysis and theoretical linguistics, Tiffany Beechy»s timely and engaging study provides a critical reassessment of Old English texts that challenges the distinction between Angl …

Critical attention to the Victorian supernatural has flourished over the last twenty-five years. Whether it is spiritualism or Theosophy, mesmerism or the occult, the dozens of book-length studies an …