Jeffrey W. Barbeau 
Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion [EPUB ebook] 

This book deals with all aspects of the Merlin legend, from its origins to its expression in medieval and modern literature, film, and popular culture. Following an extended introduction and a full b …

‘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 …

Édouard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Prolific as both a theorist and a literary author, Glissant sta …

This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their representation of the cardinal virtue sophrosune positions these texts in their liter …

This volume reflects on the ghostly and its varied manifestations including the uncanny, the revenant, the echo, and other forms of artistic allusion. These unsettling presences of the spectral …

‘This book was crying out to be written.’ The Irish Times ‘Scandalously readable.’ Literary Review James Joyce”s relationship with his homeland was a complicated and often vexed one. The publication …

"The fatal glove" is a literary criticism and thrilling book written by Clara August. The book describes the story in a captivating way which follows the journey of Constance Danforth, a yo …

As a woman in an illegal marriage, publishing under a male pseudonym, George Eliot was one of the most successful yet controversial writers of the Victorian period. Today she is considered a key figu …

First published in 2000. This is Volume I of fourteen of a series on India- its language and literature. Collated in 1886, this is a collection of Indian and Oriental poems, songs and two books from …

Representations of masochism – both overt and oblique – permeate the work of James Joyce. While a number of critics have noted this, to date there has been no sustained and focused analysis of this t …