Soldier, hero, and politician, the Duke of Wellington is one of the best-known figures of nineteenth-century England. Fr......more

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A collaborative investigation of one of the best-known works of late medieval European literature, the Franco-Burgundian......more

"The first English translation of key texts by Georges Bataille pertaining to The Accursed Share that also map out his t......more

An indispensable resource for scholars and students of James Joyce, Joyce Studies Annual gathers essays by foremost scho......more

A lively and illustrated inquiry of how children’s literature reflects the curious mind of a child--now available in pap......more

First published in 1983, English Literature in History, 1780-1830 is an original and provocative study of the literature......more

First published in 1974, Investigating Drama offers a holistic understanding of drama. An understanding of drama require......more

First published in 1973, On Realism is a comprehensive introduction to the complex problem of literary realism. Written ......more

Even after seven centuries of historical development, the core of Dante’s work is probably more relevant today than ever......more

Jo Labanyi and Luisa Elena Delgado provide the first cultural history of modern literatures in Spain. With contributors ......more

Jo Labanyi and Luisa Elena Delgado provide the first cultural history of modern literatures in Spain. With contributors ......more

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation brings together a variety of different voices to examine ......more

In Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong rescued Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia......more

This book examines commercial and personal connections in the early modern book trade in Paris and northwestern France, ......more

An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehen......more

The Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and......more

The Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and......more

Many great writers have been fluent in multiple languages but have never been able to escape their mother tongue. Yet if......more

Our relationship with trees is a lengthy, complex one. Since we first walked the earth we have, at various times, worshi......more

Navid Kermani is not only one of Germany’s most distinguished writers and public intellectuals, he is also an outstandin......more

"At the heart of any story of metamorphosis lies the issue of identity, and the tales of the werwulf (lit. ’man-wolf’) a......more

"Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period’s rising ......more

The first full biography of Warren Lewis, brother and secretary of C. S. Lewis Detailing the life of Warren Hamilton Lew......more

This is the first book-length study in decades to offer in-depth readings of a variety of late medieval poems across Gow......more

Apart from humans, animals play a pivotal role in travel literature. However, the way they are represented in texts can ......more

Ranging from early medieval times to the present, this diverse collection explores the myriad ways in which literary tex......more

Si possono rappresentare i luoghi di un esilio, quand’esso non ha - per l’esule - niente di "proprio"? Quando - soprattu......more

This book explores the aesthetic consequences of Protestantism in Scandinavia. Fourteen case studies from the sixteenth ......more

The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology. Millions of texts emerged from a complex network of writ......more

By providing a detailed analysis of the cultural environment into which Samuel Beckett was born, Feargal Whelan construc......more

Interdisciplinarity is significant in the age of globalization and digitalization. It creates new opportunities through ......more

Few terms have been more prone and resistant to definition than the literary and the real. Bringing them together, under......more

Join Alice Taylor this Christmas as she welcomes us into her home and shows us the traditions of her family’s Christmas.......more

An authoritative edition of Oscar Wilde’s critical writings shows how the renowned dramatist and novelist also transform......more

"This book aims to provide a general introduction to manuscript studies for readers whose particular interests lie in me......more

Though frequently acknowledged as a remarkable phase within Czech literary history, the poetic outpouring in the build-u......more

Across three thematically-linked sections, this volume charts the development of competing geographical, national, and i......more

Using a philosophical lens to more deeply examine, appreciate, and understand C. S. Lewis’s writings Drawing on C. S. Le......more

This is the very first ’teach yourself’ book on palaeography, covering all the skills that the genealogist needs to read......more

The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture exposes, explores, and examines what Victorians o......more

This groundbreaking collection of essays tells the surprising story of how the American Western has shaped world literat......more

First published in 1987, The Literature of Controversy is a collection of essays by scholars from Britain, the United St......more

First published in 1971, Poison, Play and Duel explores the dominant symbols of the language and action of Hamlet. The G......more

First published in 1988, The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir concentrates specifically on the novels of the famous 20th Cen......more

First published in 1986, Laurence Sterne follows Sterne’s life and career from the moment of recognition brought by the ......more

First published in 1968, Jane Austen’s Emma is a critical study of Miss Austen’s last completed novel. While often pausi......more

Military literature was one of the most prevalent forms of writing to appear during the Romantic era, yet its genesis in......more

"He was a Fula. I say ’was’, because I haven’t seen him for a long time. I don’t know if he’s still alive or where he mi......more

"This gripping novel is as good at describing the magnificent seascapes and the unforgiving elements as it is at examini......more

An annual volume, this time with special attention to the relevance of Brecht’s work in today’s world of resurgent autho......more

A critical edition and the first English translation of the French play. April 1542 saw a massacre of epic proportions i......more

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The modern world was not created by the civilization of Renaissance Italy, the advent of the printing press, or the marr......more

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Between 1880 and 1920, newspapers, magazines, and journals figured as the most important media for the public discussion......more

1. Introduction: Invisible Cities and the Urban ImaginationPart I Cities & Theory2. Invisible Cities: Learning to Recogn......more

Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "Superb...brims with insight into T.S. Eliot’s co......more

An ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion. Before borders determ......more

Every literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his......more

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This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the w......more

An examination of the cultural and artistic consequences of post-WWI nationalism in Europe. World War I was a seismic ev......more

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A renowned Keats scholar illuminates the poet’s extraordinary career, in a ......more

States of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the ps......more

Flann O’Brien: Acting out is the first full-length study to comprehensively address the themes of performance, masking a......more

Situated in the interdisciplinary field of Critical Heritage Studies, this special issue gathers articles originating in......more

Gross explores our complex fascination with uncanny children in works of fiction. Ranging from Victorian to modern works......more

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"In the nineteenth century, a fascination with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made Mormons and Mormonis......more

"In the nineteenth century, a fascination with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made Mormons and Mormonis......more

"Poverty is what I am writing about". In the late 1920s, Eric Blair resigned his post as a colonial policeman in Burma, ......more

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Jane Austen’s richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provid......more