The poetry of Christina Rossetti is often described as ”gothic” and yet this term has rarely been examined in the specific case of Rossetti”s work. Based on new readings of the full range of her w …

Women, `Race” and Writing in the Early Modern Period is an extraordinarily comprehensive interdisciplinary examination of one of the most neglected areas in current scholarship. The contributors use …

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 Literature after Globalization offers a detailed study of recent literary and theoretical responses to technology, globalization, and national identity. Focusin …

In one of the most rapidly growing areas of literary study, this volume provides the first comprehensive guide to teaching Latino/a literature in all variety of learning environments. Essays by inter …

The essays in this collection explore the concept of ”transubstantiation”, its adaptations and transformations in English and European culture from the Elizabethans to the twentieth century. Favori …

The Sanskrit Mahabharata (which contains the Bhagavad Gita) is sorely neglected as a classic – perhaps the classic – of world literature, and is of particularly timely human importance in today”s gl …

Secretaries are the hidden technicians of much literary (and non-literary) writing; they also figure startlingly often as characters in modern literature, film, and even literary criticism. Literary …

Published in 1985: The main plot portrays the bachelor Octavio, Marquis of Siena, and his establishment of his ’Bower of Fancies, ’ something like a Platonic academy for those he calls the ’fancies’ …

Effervescent Adventures with Britannia is the latest addition to Wm Roger Louis”s stimulating and acclaimed series, Adventures with Britannia. It draws upon a distinguished array of writers and scho …

In this important new intervention, leading poet and critic John Wilkinson explores the material life of the lyric poem. How does the lyric – considered as an object, as an event – grapple with perma …