Leah Price 
Anthology and the Rise of the Novel [PDF ebook] 
From Richardson to George Eliot

As long as there have been fans, there has been fan fiction. There seems to be a fundamental human need to tell additional stories about the characters after the book, series, play or movie is over. …

This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular, frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs, who has been working with st …

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading …

The story of the American self-made man carries a perennial interest in American literature and cultural studies. This book expands the study of such stories to include the writings of Frederick Doug …

Kashmiri Life Narratives takes as its central focus writings — memoirs, non-fictional and fictional Bildungsromane — published circa 2008 by Kashmiris/Indians living in the Valley of Kashmir, India …

Interpreting human stories, whether those told by individuals, groups, organizations, nations, or even civilizations, opens a wide scope of research options for understanding how people construct, sh …

As the Second World War raged throughout Europe, modernist writers often became crucial voices in the propaganda efforts of both sides. Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda, and Literary Ae …

Suggesting that politics and power are at the center of Margaret Atwood”s fiction, Theodore F. Sheckels examines Atwood”s novels from The Edible Woman to The Year of the Flood. Whether her treatmen …

Combining literary analysis and theoretical linguistics, Tiffany Beechy”s timely and engaging study provides a critical reassessment of Old English texts that challenges the distinction between Angl …

Envisioning today’s readers as poised between an impossible attempt to read texts as their original readers experienced them and an awareness of our own temporal moment, Simon Dentith complicates tra …