In this fascinating book, Johanna Emeney examines the global proliferation of new poetry related to illness and medical treatment from the perspect...

This is the first comprehensive exploration of the openings of novels. With a title that deliberately echoes Frank Kermode’s famous book on endings...

The Spacious Margin: Eighteenth-Century Printed Books and the Traces of their Readers draws from the holdings of the Bruce Peel Special Collections...

The Steel Registry. Characters of Crime Fiction is a celebration of the genre of detective fiction and detective fiction characters. Beginning with...

Is Cupid and Psyche a romance, a folktale, a Platonic allegory of the nature of the soul, a Jungian tale of individuation, or an archetypal dream? ...

This collection of carefully curated lists, articles, and interviews celebrates the beleaguered horror genre across different media while tracing t...

A gripping novel of romance and adventure, the Persiles will moreover captivate anyone interested in Cervantes' development as a novelist; the cult...

This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy The Trojan Women about the consequences of war; the victors and the fate of those defeated in ...

The Romantic period is the most appealing but also the most confusing period of English literature for the student. Crucially, this book distinguis...

In addition to a fresh translation of Los de Abajo , Azuela's classic novel of the Mexican Revolution, this volume offers both a general Introducti...

In addition to a fresh translation of Los de Abajo , Azuela's classic novel of the Mexican Revolution, this volume offers both a general Introducti...

This compact anthology provides a thorough introduction to the major works of the Western literary tradition from Antiquity to 1700. It includes ex...

This compact anthology provides a thorough introduction to the major works of the Western literary tradition from Antiquity to 1700. It includes ex...

A unique, candid and intimate survey of the life and work of 12 of our most acclaimed writers: Patricia Grace, Tessa Duder, Owen Marshall, Philip T...

This volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles' Theban cycle, presenting the tr...

This volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles' Theban cycle, presenting the tr...

Theory of Literature was originally published in 1949. It is not a textbook introducing the young to the elements of literary appreciation nor a su...

America's most influential literary figure worldwide is familiar to most readers of short fiction through only about a dozen stories. This is becau...