Moller Daniel Moller 
Dumb Beasts in Hallowed Tombs [PDF ebook] 
Swedish Funerary Poetry for Animals 1670-1760

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 …

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been considered a particularly British writer in part as his official post as Poet Laureate inevitably committed him to a certain amount of patriotic writin …

Milton”s Ovidian Eve presents a fresh and thorough exploration of the classical allusions central to understanding Paradise Lost and to understanding Eve, one of Milton”s most complex characters. M …

In her feminist intervention into the ways in which British women novelists explore and challenge the limitations of the mind-body binary historically linked to constructions of femininity, Andrea Ad …

The Shakers are perhaps the best known of American religious communities. Their ethos and organization had a practical influence on many other communities and on society as a whole. This three volume …

A study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen”s writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history. It looks at depictions of reading in …

This study collects together many of the original texts from the long-running debate which surrounded the rise of English as an academic subject. Most of the texts were ephemeral and have been long o …

The major claim made by this study is that early modern English prose fiction self-consciously invented a new form of literary culture in which professional writers created books to be printed and so …

Derek Duncan”s timely study is the first book in English to examine constructions of male homosexuality in Italian literature. In admirably clear and elegant prose, Duncan analyzes texts ranging fro …

’The nineteenth century realist author was a contradictory figure. He was the focus of literary criticism, but obscured his creative role by insisting on presenting his works as ”copies” of reality …