Martina King 
Das Mikrobielle in der Literatur und Kultur der Moderne [PDF ebook] 
Zur Wissensgeschichte eines ephemeren Gegenstands (1880-1930)

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 …

From Frankenstein to futuristic feminist utopias, Decoding Gender in Science Fiction examines the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored, and revised conventional notions of sexual …

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 …

Classics in Extremis reimagines classical reception. Its contributors explore some of the most remarkable, hard-fought and unsettling claims ever made on the ancient world: from the coal-mines of Eng …

This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary crit …