Eduard Schwartz 
Fünf Vorträge über den griechischen Roman [PDF ebook] 

Christian Isobel Johnstone’s Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815, less than a year after Walter Scott’s Waverley; or ‘tis Sixty Years Since enthralled readers and initiated a craze for …

This collection offers a fresh approach to the work of Cormac Mc Carthy, one of the most important contemporary American authors. Essays focus on his work across the genres and/or in constellation wi …

In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami find …

Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty, biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative liberal and secular understanding of India’s religious identity is …

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer”s work, enabling student and researche …

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. Thi …

First available in 1886, the present volume is an attempt to lessen the obscurity of that tract of international literature in which Barclay”s Ship of Fools, Marlowe”s Faustus, and Decker”s Gul’s …

First published in 1971. In writing this text the author’s intent has been as much to tell stories of life and people in Shakespeare”s day as to add to our knowledge of the Elizabethan stage and dra …

Thomas Hardy is not generally recognized as an imperial writer, even though he wrote during a period of major expansion of the British Empire. Bownas examines the many references to past empires in H …

Why were the Victorians so passionate about ‘History’? How did this passion relate to another Victorian obsession – the ‘woman question’? In a brilliant and provocative study, Christina Crosby invest …