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Marcel Proust once wrote, "There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go along t......more

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The idea of the end is an essential motivic force in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016). This book shows that Hill’......more

In the Romantic period, women writers developed specific aesthetics and writing strategies in their engagements with cli......more

This edition of Anthony Munday’s The first book of Primaleon of Greece (1595) includes an introduction, notes, glossary,......more

Several scholarly fields investigate the reuse of source texts, most relevantly adaptation studies and fanfiction studie......more

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In 1524, Hans Sachs (1494-1576), the Nuremberg shoemaker, prolific playwright, poet, and Meistersinger, published in qui......more

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Drawing on a range of authors that includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, Ali Smith, Tom McCarthy, Jennifer Ega......more

Gender by the Book investigates the gender representations that French children’s literature transmits to readers today.......more

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This book explores the intricate interplay between physical spaces and psychological landscapes in the works of Irish-Am......more

Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware abo......more

Essays on and interviews with minoritized writers of contemporary Germany, mostly women or non-binary, whose literary in......more

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’The word glory, to English ears, usually means no more than a kind of mazy bright blur. But the maze should be, though ......more

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This exceptional volume celebrates one of the greatest heroes in world cultural heritage: the Little Prince. Created in ......more

This book takes a fresh look at the representation of Cornwall in literature. It offers new readings of familiar texts, ......more

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This volume engages with the ambivalence embedded in and materialized by waste, its ambiguous ownership, and temporaliti......more

This volume looks to core ideas defining Goethe’s work and his influence on his contemporaries and inheritors. Contribut......more

We are living in times when populism, war and climate change are all sources of anxiety caused by overlapping crises. An......more

This book explores the meanings of European peripheries in postcolonial literary imagination. Acknowledging the unbalanc......more

Though notorious for his visceral, affective, and politically incendiary writing, Jean Genet also had a surprising pench......more

There is nothing funny about comedy in Renaissance France. Comic theatre in the sixteenth century was employed, primaril......more

This volume comprises articles by scholars from three disciplines - literary studies, TEFL methodology, and history - fr......more

The 12th century saw an explosion of interest in the Roman past by authors all over Europe, who were looking for histori......more

In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of collecte......more