Thomas Hardy 
Life’s Little Ironies [PDF ebook] 

Writing landscapes inevitably occurs in dialogue with a long textual and pictorial tradition, but first-hand experience also provides key stimuli to many writers’ accounts. This monograph employs a c …

Bookending the chronology of this collection are two crucial moments in the histories of pain, trauma, and their staging in British theater: the establishment of secular and professional theater in L …

Michel Foucault’s 1969 essay “What is an Author?” sidesteps the stormy arguments surrounding “intentional fallacy” and the “death of the author, ” offering an entirely different way of looking at tex …

Literature is at the heart of popular understandings of the First World War in Britain, and has perpetuated a popular memory of the conflict centred on disillusionment, horror and futility. This book …

Originally published in 1986. William Faulkner’s major novels represent one of the earliest American explorations into the paradoxes inherent in both literary discourse and racial segregation in the …

Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later eighteenth century. In this book, Nandini Bhatt …

‘Members of the Florentine family of the Donati feature prominently in Dante”s Divine Comedy . Their presence is explored by Piero Boitani, as a ”comedy” within the Comedy, in close readings of th …

The title page of the 1651 continuation of Sir Philip Sidney”s Arcadia, which is made available in facsimile in this volume, designates its author as ”Mris A. W.” It is now the convention to attri …

In Dante and the Sense of Transgression, William Franke combines literary-critical analysis with philosophical and theological reflection to cast new light on Dante”s poetic vision. Conversely, Dant …

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 …