Kevin Sharpe & Steven N. Zwicker 
Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England [PDF ebook] 

Mimesis has been addressed frequently in terms of literary or visual representation, in which the work of art mirrors, or fails to mirror, life. Most often, mimesis has been critiqued as a simple att …

This landmark volume is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information S …

The first full-length study of the reception of John Milton’s (1608-74) writings in the Arab-Muslim world, this book examines the responses of Arab-Muslim readers to Milton’s works, and in particular …

In this book, Yael Greenberg discusses and clarifies a number of controversial issues and phenomena in the generic literature, including the existence of ‘episodic genericity, ‘ existential presuppos …

Revised Lives examines self-representation in U.S. culture from the American Revolution through the nineteenth century. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu”s sociology, an …

This book studies Native American and Chicano/a writers of the American Southwest as a coherent cultural group with common features and distinct efforts to deal with and to resist the dominant Euro-A …

As the premier livery company, the Mercers Company in medieval England enjoyed a prominent role in London”s governance and exercised much influence over England”s overseas trade and political inter …

This book offers students of Greek and scholars interested in Greek literature the first English-language commentary on the “Battle of Frogs and Mice”, a short animal epic ascribed to Homer in the an …

Thomas Hardy”s ‘The Dynasts’ and Leo Tolstoy”s ‘War & Peace’ are both works which defy attempts to assign them to a particular genre but might seem to have little else in common apart from being se …