Examines ideas of violence in German culture after 9/11 through the lens of "violence elsewhere" - exploring works and d......more

Can feelings be wrong? Scientists agree that emotions contain both a cognitive and a physiological component. The cognit......more

Jane Austen’s heroines respond to the power of the natural world, seeking comfort in nature’s calm or referencing "verdu......more

Moral Complexities in Turn of the Millennium British Literature offers a critical analysis of moral complexity and socia......more

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The Brecht Yearbook, published by Camden House on behalf of the International Brecht Society, is the central scholarly f......more

There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profound silence about the......more

"Uses a close reading of the work of Miguel de Cervantes to critically examine the default approaches to the exploration......more

A groundbreaking new account of the author of The Spanish Tragedy that establishes him as a major Elizabethan dramatist ......more

Freud and psychoanalysis taught us that rebellion is what guarantees our independence and our creative abilities. But in......more

Offers a comprehensive thematic introduction to a wide range of medieval writings about the outlaw-hero from a series of......more

Fostering a dialog between Critical Disability Studies, American Studies, InterAmerican Studies, and Global Health Studi......more

Virginia Woolf’s reading notes offer a fascinating insight into her mind at work, reading "with a pen and notebook, seri......more

We live in a world riven through with standards. To understand more of their deep, rich past is to understand ourselves ......more

Examining Afro-German artists’ use of Afrofuturist tropes to critique German racial history The term Afrofuturism was fi......more

This wide-ranging collection of contemporary scholarship is the first to consider representations of men and masculinity......more

Examining Afro-German artists’ use of Afrofuturist tropes to critique German racial history The term Afrofuturism was fi......more

Specters, Monsters, and the Damned examines a rich selection of Spanish fantastic literature to illustrate how the langu......more

This collection of essays offers an image of Byron not only as a poet - for which he is best known - but as a translator......more

In our modern era of hyperconnectivity, the intricacies of our interpersonal relationships wield a profound influence on......more

A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited......more

"The first comprehensive study of how the outbreak of the Second World War shaped the literary work of American, English......more

Exploring 18th-century medicine’s construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as "hermaphrodites", this......more

What does it feel like to experience the sacred today? Examining in detail many of this century’s most significant write......more

Demonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his o......more

At a time when scholars in both literary and scientific disciplines are advancing the term posthumanism, this book offer......more

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

Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through p......more

Examines ideas of violence in German culture after 9/11 through the lens of "violence elsewhere" - exploring works and d......more

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

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

The Brontës and the Fairy Tale is the first comprehensive study devoted to the role of fairy tales and folklore in the w......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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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

The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward God Written during his exi......more

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

Interested in the ideological workings of fiction, I study how major avant-garde tropes promote the potential of permane......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

Over the past roughly two decades, the interconnected concepts of reparation, restitution, and commemorative culture hav......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

Though Orton’s roots lay in traditions as diverse as those represented by such writers as Wycherley, Congreve, Wilde, Sh......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

English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century by Richard Steele offers a collection of essays that examine the lives and w......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

The Possibility of Literature is an essential collection from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in contemp......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

This book interrogates the theme of vegetal sentience and consciousness in the form of trees that move purposefully and/......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

The Mediterranean is ubiquitous in nineteenth-century British literature, but this study is the first to fully recover a......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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Der vorliegende Band prasentiert die Ergebnisse des Workshops "Petrarchism: Competing Models for Early Modern Community ......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

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

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

Victor Hugo: His Life and Work, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so tha......more

Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading; Selected from English and American Literature, a classical book, has been cons......more

Very Woman (Sixtine): A Cerebral Novel, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, an......more

The Story of André Cornélis, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that t......more

The Verse of Alfred Lichtenstein, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so t......more