Giacomo Fedeli & Henry Spelman 
Writing Literary History in the Greek and Roman World [PDF ebook] 

The first full-length study of the reception of John Milton’s (1608-74) writings in the Arab-Muslim world, this book examines the responses of Arab-Muslim readers to Milton’s works, and in particular …

In this book, Yael Greenberg discusses and clarifies a number of controversial issues and phenomena in the generic literature, including the existence of ‘episodic genericity, ‘ existential presuppos …

Revised Lives examines self-representation in U.S. culture from the American Revolution through the nineteenth century. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu”s sociology, an …

In dialogue with groundbreaking technologies and scientific models, twentieth century fiction presents readers with a vast mosaic of perspectives on the cosmos. The literary imagination of the world …

This Handbook brings together essays from an impressive group of well-established and emerging scholars from all around the world, to show the many different types of violence that have plagued Latin …

"Ormond, Or, The Secret Witness" Volume II by Charles Brockden Brown continues the gripping American Gothic tale set in 18th-century Philadelphia, delving deeper into themes of psychologica …

"Ormond, Or, The Secret Witness" by Charles Brockden Brown, Volume I, unfolds as a gripping American Gothic psychological thriller set against the backdrop of 18th-century Philadelphia. The …

In the Alexander Lectures for 1965-66 at the University of Toronto, Dr. Frye describes the basis of the tragic vision as "being in time, " in which death as "the essential event that g …

The period between World War I and World War II was one of intense change. Everything was modernizing, including our technology for making war—witness machine guns, trench warfare, biological agents, …

In contemporary academic literary studies, Lacan is often considered impenetrably obscure, due to the unavailability of his late works, insufficient articulation of his methodologies and sometimes st …