Seamus Deane 
Small World [EPUB ebook] 
Ireland, 1798-2018

If Greek tragedy is sometimes regarded as a form long dead and buried, both theatre producers and film directors seem slow to accept its interment. Originally published in 1986, this book reflects th …

This book examines how debates over copyright law in the United States during the nineteenth century, particularly over the lack of an international copyright law, intersected with the business pract …

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual v …

Informed by theories of the visual, knowledge and desire, The Postcolonial Eye is about the »eye» and the »I» in contemporary Australian scenes of race. Specifically, it is about seeing, where vi …

Tracing the history of tragedy and comedy from their earliest beginnings to the present, this book offers readers an exceptional study of the development of both genres, grounded in analysis of landm …

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 …

First published in 1969, provides a helpful introduction to the study of Absurdist writing and drama in the first half of the twentieth century. After discussing a variety of definitions of the Absur …

Considering as evidence literary texts, historical documents, and material culture, this interdisciplinary study examines the entry into public political culture of women and apprentices in seventeen …

Hillary M. Nunn here traces the connections between the London public»s interest in medical dissection and the changing cultural significance of bloodshed on the early Stuart playhouse stage. Consid …

In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot»s writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. Eliot, Davis argu …