Fred Richards 
The Complete Works of Fred Richards [EPUB ebook] 

The twelve essays in Romanticism/Judaica explore the four major cultural strands that have converged from the French Revolution to the present. The first section, Nationalism and Diasporeanism, conta …

Responding to the resurgence of interest in the Scottish working-class writer James Hogg, Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson offer the first edited collection devoted to an examination of the critic …

‘The nineteenth century realist author was a contradictory figure. He was the focus of literary criticism, but obscured his creative role by insisting on presenting his works as ”copies” of reality …

‘Three essays on the nature of the bonds between Vita Nuova and Convivio; the nature and significance of the Donna Gentile, Dante”s ”second love”; and the imaginative and intellectual coherence of …

Why have vampires become such a feature of modern culture? Can vampire-like conditions be explained by medical research? Is there a connection between vampirism and Freud? The Psychology of Vampires …

First published in 2000, this volume is a unique collection of essays which draws our attention to the importance of those textual elements traditionally ignored in literary criticism. These include …

Epic has long been regarded as the exclusive domain of the male literary genius and as an incarnation of patriarchal values. This provocative collection of essays challenges such a hegemonic stereoty …

Published in 1985: The main plot portrays the bachelor Octavio, Marquis of Siena, and his establishment of his ‘Bower of Fancies, ‘ something like a Platonic academy for those he calls the ‘fancies’ …

First published in 1955 in German, this journal, published here in English for the first time, describes the adventures of a young Swiss surgeon who sought his fortune in eighteenth-century Russia, w …

Originally published in 1970, John Lydgate sets out to restore a sense of perspective to the work of Lydgate, not by attributing a spurious modernity as a precursor of the Renaissance, but by accepti …