Will Bowers 
Italian Idea [EPUB ebook] 
Anglo-Italian Radical Literary Culture, 1815-1823

A comprehensive analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare”s reception by major American writers and poets. …

Practising Theory and Reading Literature provides an accessible introduction to the study of contemporary literary theories and their applications to a range of literary texts. This is an elementary …

Surreal Beckett situates Beckett‘s writings within the context of James Joyce and Surrealism, distinguishing ways in which Beckett forged his own unique path, sometimes in accord with, sometimes at o …

Though his writings have long been integral to the canon of early modern English literature, it is only in very recent scholarship that Edmund Spenser has been understood as a preeminent anthropologi …

Elizabeth Cary”s Tragedy of Mariam, the first original drama written in English by a woman, has been a touchstone for feminist scholarship in the period for several decades and is now one of the mos …

Until recently, Anne Clifford has been known primarily for her Knole Diary, edited by Vita Sackville-West, which recounted her steadfast resistance to the most authoritative figures of her culture, i …

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on ”European Shakespeares”, proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare”s literary craft was not just nativ …

This is a seminal book, first published in 1961. Over the past six decades, T.N. Devare”s work has been widely recognised as a pioneering study to re-discover the glorious heritage of Persian in the …

This book offers intimate readings of a diverse range of global autobiographical literature with an emphasis on the (re)presentation of the physical body. The twelve texts discussed here include phil …

The Dictionary of Oriental Literatures fills a long-felt gap in Western literature by presenting a concise summary, in three volumes and about 2000 articles, of practically all the literatures of Asi …