Matthew Campbell 
Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry [EPUB ebook] 

Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. Revealing elec …

Captain George Mortland turned into a courageous British officer, and "The Sapphire Cross" by means of George Manville Fenn is an interesting adventure story approximately his lifestyles. I …

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 …

The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention – in history, political science and literat …

This is the first collection of feminist critical essays by and about women in South Africa to appear outside of that country. Many of the pieces were written after February 1990, when President de K …

First Published in 2005. In 19th century plantation literature, the runaway slave in the swamp was a recurring bogey-man whose presence challenged myths of the plantation system. By escaping to the s …

Hurt and Pain: Literature and the Suffering Body examines the strategies authors have used to portray bodies in pain, drawing on a diverse range of literary texts from the seventeenth century to the …

The age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe”s greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne”s Essays, Rabelais” comic fictions, Rons …

Through the comparative study of literatures from the United States and Latin America, Segregated Miscegenation questions received notions of race and nation. Carlos Hiraldo examines the current unde …

This book examines how debates over copyright law in the United States during the nineteenth century, particularly over the lack of an international copyright law, intersected with the business pract …