Robert Faggen 
Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost [EPUB ebook] 

‘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 …

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’ …

Byzantine Childhood examines the intricacies of growing up in medieval Byzantium, children’s everyday experiences, and their agency. By piecing together a wide range of sources and utilising several …

This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and illuminating way. Robert Fraser proposes that we now look beyond the traditional …

What can postcolonialism tell us about international relations? What can international relations tell us about postcolonialism? In recent years, postcolonial perspectives and insights have challenged …

First published in 1987. Often the best known and most memorable passages in Shakespeare”s plays, the soliloquies, also tend to be the focal points in the drama. Twenty-seven soliloquies are examine …

Oscar Wilde was a consumer modernist. His modernist aesthetics drove him into the heart of the mass culture industries of 1890s London, particularly the journalism and popular theatre industries. Wil …

The Imperial Quest and Modern Memory explores relationships between narrative and imperium in the context of Western Modernism by examining the Quest as a vexed trope in Heart of Darkness, Passage to …

D. H. Lawrence wrote in 1914, ”Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depths of my religious experience.” Although he had broken with the Congregational …

Flann O”Brien – also known as Brian O”Nolan or Myles na g Copaleen – is now widely recognised as one of the foremost of Ireland”s modern authors. Assembling Flann O”Brien explores the author”s i …