Christopher G. Moore 
Gambling on Magic [EPUB ebook] 

Originally published in 1977, Old English and Middle English Poetry provides a historical approach to English poetry. The book examines the conditions out of which poetry grew and argues that the fun …

This three-volume collection focuses on writings by and about cross-dressing women from the early nineteenth century up until the beginning of World War II. In so doing, it provides a new perspective …

This work offers an examination of religious texts written by twelve women over three centuries in two languages and three genres, showing the variety and complexity of gendered images available to m …

In this significant rereading of Graham Greene”s writing career, Michael Brennan explores the impact of major issues of Catholic faith and doubt on his work, particularly in relation to his portraya …

Hercules is the best-known character from classical mythology. Seneca”s play Hercules Furens presents the hero at a moment of triumph turned to tragedy. Hercules returns from his final labor, his jo …

Thomas Hobbes is a towering figure in the history of modern thought and political philosophy. He remains best remembered for his 1651 treatise on government, Leviathan, a work that shows at the very …

’My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I think… and I can’t stop myself from thinking.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea Writing the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to D …

First published in 1991, Textual Communication examines the character and development of the novel from Richardson to Nabokov in relation to the printing and publishing industry. The book blends lite …

First published in 1962. This volume gives as complete an account as possible of the Shakespearian experience, particularly in terms of one play, King Lear, but in general against the context of all …

First Published in 2005. Whitman”s Ecstatic Union rereads the first three editions of Leaves of Grass within the context of a nineteenth-century antebellum evangelical culture of conversion. Though …