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The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "archival revolution" due to its unprecedent......more

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This book presents the untold stories of the forgotten literary mothers and sisters of pre-modern Italian literature, an......more

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This collection shows various declinations of the early modern Italian marvellous, whose English translation often becam......more

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Directs scholarly focus towards a deeper appreciation of medievalist trends in the Elizabethan literary landscape and ch......more

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

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

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

This study deals with the formative powers of modern liberal ideas of private property. The liberal subject emerged with......more

Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks ahead, seeking and building the "Great Beyond" (Mangu......more

It is a fact that today’s British stages resound with powerfully innovative voices and that, very often, these voices ha......more

This volume sheds light on the social and cultural transformations that accompanied the Covid-19 crisis by looking at he......more

The study investigates the relationship between Norse and Saami peoples in the medieval period and focuses on the multif......more

Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear is......more

Graham Greene is an immensely popular as well as powerful and idiosyncratic writer. His leading characters are murderers......more

How does literature from the past speak to the present? What can we, as readers committed to combatting oppression, lear......more

This book examines what Amr Kamal calls the phenomenon of emporialism, or the convergence between the spaces and imagina......more

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

Music plays an essential role in Gothic in the years 1789-1820, but it signifies very differently at the end of the peri......more

Music plays an essential role in Gothic in the years 1789-1820, but it signifies very differently at the end of the peri......more

An essential resource for anyone interested in crusade culture and Christian-Muslim relations, building on insights from......more

Drawing on a wealth of material from children’s periodicals from the Victorian era to the early twentieth century, Krist......more

This book unravels the complexities of traditional storytelling and uses creative analytical techniques to uncover the m......more

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

The Aesthetic Movement, a collection of artists, writers and thinkers who rejected traditional ideas of beauty as guided......more

Considers how Joseph Conrad’s works engage with silence...more

This study of forensic crime fiction from the US and the UK examines the prominent roles that women play in many of thes......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

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

The first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, kno......more

The Story of a Genius, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this wo......more

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The Verbalist; A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters o......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

This book accounts for the outpouring of celebrations in the Habsburg Empire upon the 1657 birth of Felipe Próspero, hei......more

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

Challenges the concept that the notorious horse penis is key to understanding the Tale of Vǫlsi, via the concept of the ......more

The True Story of My Life: A Sketch, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and s......more

The Triumph of Death, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this wor......more

Stories That Words Tell Us, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that th......more

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

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

In nineteenth-century Britain, the word queer was associated not only with same-sex desire but also with irregular forms......more

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

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

Much literature and scholarship has been devoted to the works by Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), one of the greatest ......more

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

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

This Element focuses on representations of social and psychological entrapment demonstrating how Dickens employs the Got......more

This Element focuses on representations of social and psychological entrapment demonstrating how Dickens employs the Got......more