Noticing the importance of the fact that there is a growing interest in oriental countries and cultures, Hasan Baktir studies in his book the repre...

In this study of three of Barbara Pym’s novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of women’s humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, a...

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? ...

Jane Austen's novels have been widely read and discussed, but one topic that is rarely studied is her use of speech. In this volume, writers from a...

George Lyman Kittredge's perceptive editions have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging acco...

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 ...

Like previous editions in the New Kittredge Shakespeare series, this edition of The Two Noble Kinsme n takes George Lyman Kittredge's text as its b...

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...

Euan McCabe is a football World Cup compulsive. Once a typical rugby-loving New Zealand schoolboy, he was mesmerised by his first sighting of Bueno...

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...

These two long essays make up a short book, one full of depth and knowledge, in which Eva Brann gets at the roots of our thinking -- without tearin...

This translation contains an introduction, commentary and interpretive essay and well as numerous notes and annotations to provide the history and ...