Focusing on films, works of fiction, memorials and museums,National Responses to the Holocaust opens up new ways of thinking about how different nations including Lithuania, Poland, France, Germany, A
Using the letter as its main evidence, Literary Sociability in Early Modern England: The Epistolary Record examines early-modern English literary networks, especially during the period 1620 to 1720, f
Gender and Genre explores the ways in which German women writers used literature, in the sense of belles lettres, to comment on the French Revolution and its aftermath. By doing so, these authors not
While previous collections of Emerson essays have tended to be a sort of 'stock-taking' or 'retrospective' look at Emerson scholarship, the present collection, divided into four sections, follows a mo
American diplomat George Platt Waller’s memoir of his experiences in Luxembourg from 1939-1941 reveals the plight of a small neutral country invaded by Nazi Germany. His vivid account of the response
Inspiration in the Age ofEnlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form of inspiration, one that not only changed the relations
The book examines the reception of Baudelaire in China by translators, critics, scholars, and individual writers. It reveals not only the protean qualities of Baudelaire’s work, but developments and t
"Our culture attempts to separate competing ideological factions by denying relationships between multiple perspectives and influences outside of one's own narrow interpretive community. The distingui
Scolnicov highlights Harold Pinter as an experimental playwright who attempted to free the theatre from the legacy of realism, causality, and motivation.
Fiction of the New Statesman is the first study of the short stories published in the renowned British journal theNew Statesman. This book argues that New Statesman fiction advances a strong realist p
More radically than had any contemporary English author’s work, Thomas Gray’s two Pindaric odes of 1757, effectively challenged readers’ powers of comprehension, posing problems of reference as well a
Designed to appeal to both general and specialist readers, this volume presents a group of works by O’Brien (1828-1862), an early innovator in the short story form, that explore one of his special int
This reissue of Shaheen's invaluable volume provides a comprehensive survey of the English Bibles of Shakespeare's day, notes their similarities and differences, and indicates which version the playwr
New Testaments examines sequelization in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from two perspectives: 1) the cognitive perspective, which explores the cognitive and evolutionary foundations of the
This diverse collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand. Their varied approaches—literary and cultural, historical and political, scientific and
By 1719, the year in which Daniel Defoe published The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, he had been writing for three decades on England’s political, social, and economic prob
Writer Daniel Defoe was anything but a novice in writing fiction in short stories, but in turning himself into a novel-length writer, he had to explore ways of knitting his fictions together through p
“A visionary and a madman” was how one British statesman, Lord Carteret, described Theodore von Neuhoff. This exciting biography, Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica: The Man behind the Legend by Ju
George Moore: Influence and Collaboration explores in sustained form for the first time the nature of Moore’s interactions with other European writers and artists of the fin de siecle. This book explo
