John Henderson 
Morals and Villas in Seneca’s Letters [PDF ebook] 
Places to Dwell

William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in comple …

This collection examines new comic-book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessinée texts as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone settings. The individual chapt …

Jataka stories (stories about the previous births of the Buddha) are very popular in Theravada Buddhist countries, where they are found in both canonical texts and later compositions and collections, …

In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Literary represen …

Defoe”s Writings and Manliness is a timely intervention in Defoe studies and in the study of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature more generally. Arguing that Defoe”s writings insistently r …

From its first issue, published on the 10th October 1802, Francis Jeffrey”s ‘Edinburgh Review’ established a strong reputation and exerted a powerful influence. This is a literary study of the ‘Edin …

In his attitude toward religion, George Orwell has been characterised in various terms: as an agnostic, humanist, secular saint or even Christian atheist. Drawing on the full range of his public and …

This book considers what evidence the ‘new Simonides’ fragments offer for Simonides” elegiac compositions on the Persian Wars. The current orthodoxy is that they represent three separate elegies on …

Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature examines three diseases–leprosy, bubonic plague, and syphilis–to show how doctors, priests, and literary authors from the Middle Ages thro …

In a period of ongoing debate about faith, identity, migration and culture, this timely study explores the often politicised nature of constructions of one of Britain’s longest standing minority comm …