Literary Criticism - General

The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future scholarship. Articulating the significance of humanistic perspectives for our collective...

Shakespearean Temporalities addresses a critical neglect in Early Modern Performance and Shakespeare Studies, revising widely prevailing and long-standing assumptions about the performance and reception of history on the early modern stage. Demonstrating that theatre, at the turn of the seventeenth century, thrived on an...

In Writing for the Masses: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition Dr. Christine A. Colón explores how Sayers carefully negotiates the complexities of early twentieth century literary culture by embracing a specifically Victorian literary tradition of writing to engage a wide audience....

How did audiences of ancient Greek comedy react to the spectacle of masters and slaves? If they were expected to laugh at a slave threatened with a beating by his master at one moment but laugh with him when they bantered familiarly at the...

In this dialog between friends, (Pub, representing the public mind, and Indy, the individual), two important events, one which has already happened and another still on the horizon, are scrutinized to reveal some widely held untruths and misconceptions. The first is the 1963 assassination...

In Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity, Joshua Gooch argues that Dickens's novels offer models of feeling that illuminate the dissensions that accompany life's precariousness under capitalism. By examining the role of violence, anxiety, surprise, and suspense in Dickens's novels, Gooch explores...

Explore the life and literary world of Oliver Goldsmith through "The Family Letters of Oliver Goldsmith," meticulously compiled and presented by Ernest Clarke. This volume offers a fascinating glimpse into the personal correspondence of the renowned 18th-century author, revealing intimate details and shedding new...

The Liberal Verse and Prose from the South is a groundbreaking collection of political and literary writing by two of the most important figures of the Romantic movement, Lord Byron and Leigh Hunt. With its focus on freedom, justice, and the rights of the...

First published in 1911, this groundbreaking book explores the connection between mental health and physical well-being. Written by Anne Payson Call, a pioneering physician of the early 20th century, the book argues that many physical ailments are caused by stress and other psychological factors...

Originally published in 1824, this book is a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent British novelists of the 18th century. It includes accounts of the lives and works of Samuel Johnson, Tobias Smollett, Henry Fielding, and many others. Scott, himself a novelist, provides insightful...

Experience the captivating story of St. Juliana, as told through two ancient English manuscripts from the thirteenth century. This edition includes the original Middle English text, along with a Modern English translation and detailed historical notes.This work has been selected by scholars as being...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

"To love is to act"-- "Aimer, c'est agir." These words, which Victor Hugo wrote three days before he died, epitomize his life's philosophy. His love of freedom, democracy, and all people--especially the poor and wretched--drove him not only to write his epic Les Misérables...

It has been almost a truism of European history that the French Revolution gave a great stimulus to the growth of modern nationalism. This collection of original essays in English sets out to examine in detail, for the first time, in what ways and...

Author: J. P. CooperISBN-10: 0907628265ISBN-13: 9780907628262Publisher: Bloomsbury AcademicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2003Pages: 300Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

Whitehead's ten American essays in social philosophy are here reprinted in their original form, although not in chronological sequence. They have been rearranged to present first Whitehead's statement of general social principles and are followed by those essays in which he discusses problems of...

Modern/Postmodern: Society, Philosophy, Literature offers new definitions of modernism and postmodernism by presenting an original theoretical system of thought that explains the differences between these two key movements. Taking a contrastive approach, Peter V. Zima identifies three key concepts in the relationship between modernism...

Nonlinear Temporality in Joyce and Walcott is the first dedicated comparative study of James Joyce and Derek Walcott. The book examines the ways in which both Joyce's fiction and Walcott's poetry articulate a nonlinear conception of time with radical cultural and political implications. For...

Shakespeare's Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter is the first study in Shakespeare criticism to examine the entirety of Shakespeare's dramatic suicides. It addresses all plays featuring suicides and near-suicides in chronological order from Titus Andronicus to Antony and Cleopatra, thus establishing that suicide becomes...

This volume presents a contrastive study of the overlapping careers of Shakespeare and Caravaggio through the comparison of their strikingly similar conventional belief in symbol and the centrality of the subject, only to gradually open it up in an exaltation of multiplicity and the...

This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870. These representations have been invisible in nineteenth century American literary and cultural studies due to the general view that antebellum writers did not engage with their...

This volume offers comprehensive coverage of the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England, bringing together essays on specifi fields, sites and objects, and offering the reader a representative range of both traditional and new methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches to the subject.Author: Catherine E. KarkovISBN-10: 0815329164ISBN-13: 9780815329169Publisher:...

The enormous interest in recent years in the role of food in history has inspired this scholarly and entertaining collection of ten newly commissioned articles by medievalists from North America, Europe, and Australia that examines the subject of medieval food from a variety of...

Yolanda's a convict, caught by the cops while her boyfriend was robbing a bank. Now all the Hell Sisters at Harrington Hills prison farm are in love with her. Their leader wants to "marry" her. Yolanda has to find a way out. She's been...

In God, the Flesh, and the Other, the philosopher Emmanuel Falque joins the ongoing debate about the role of theology in phenomenology. An important voice in the second generation of French philosophy's "theological turn," Falque examines philosophically the fathers of the Church and the...

Montaigne's Essays are rightfully studied as giving birth to the literary form of that name. Ann Hartle's Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy argues that the essay is actually the perfect expression of Montaigne as what he called "a new figure: an unpremeditated...

Callow explores the almost legendary association of Bryant with Cole, and he recalls such author-artist pairs as Willis and Harding, Paulding and Jarvis, Cooper and Morse, and Verplanck and Frazee. Also, the role of the Knickerbockers in the development of American architecture and painting...

Transatlantic studies have begun to explore the lasting influence of Spain on its former colonies and the surviving ties between the American nations and Spain. In Monsters by Trade, Lisa Surwillo takes a different approach, explaining how modern Spain was literally made by its...

A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the "anticolonial century." The sparks of concerted resistance to colonial oppression were ignited in the gathering of intellectual malcontents from all over the world in interwar Europe....

The book explores the Christian interest in and engagement with the Yiddish language and literature in early modern Germany (ca. 1500-1750).Author: Aya ElyadaISBN-10: 0804781931ISBN-13: 9780804781930Publisher: Stanford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2012Pages: 280Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d

Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from charting any simple move "beyond" postmodernism since the 1980s, though, this book argues that...

Memos from the Besieged City argues for the institutional and cultural relevance of literary study through foundational figures, from the 1200s to today, who defied precarious circumstances to make significant contributions to literacy and civilization in the face of infelicitous human acts. Focusing on...

This book is about village governance in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on government archives from Huailu county, Hebei province, it explores local practices and official systems of social control, land taxation, and "self government" at the village level....

This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary works. Though the founding text of speech act theory, J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words, repeatedly expels literature from the...

Assuming the burden of reading imposed by the correlation of the order of language and the order of events, this book argues that the possibility of reading and writing history is tied to the endurance of traces of the past and their coming to...

Work on both the satire and the fiction of the English eighteenth century has tended to focus on the transition from a patrician culture to a culture dominated by the logic of the market. This book shifts the focus from the struggle between aristocratic...

Ambitious in scope and innovative in concept, this book offers an overview and critique of the conventions surrounding artistic creativity and intellectual endeavor since the outset of "the broader modernity", which the author sees as beginning with the decline of feudalism and the Church....

Through a series of theoretically informed readings, this book explores the uncanny effectivity of history in its seeming absence in canonical works by Burke, Wordsworth, Keats, and Baudelaire written in the shadow of the French Revolution and the Revolution of 1848. The book begins...

In developing a new gender theory for analyzing Samuel Richardson's three major novels - Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison - the author argues that these novels of sexual threat expose, sometimes unwillingly, the extraordinary labor required to construct and maintain the eighteenth-century ideology...

A Stanford University Press classic.Author: Dorothea E. Von MückeISBN-10: 0804718652ISBN-13: 9780804718653Publisher: Stanford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1991Pages: 344Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d

A Stanford University Press classic.Author: Pamela SchirmeisterISBN-10: 0804717931ISBN-13: 9780804717939Publisher: Stanford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1990Pages: 236Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d

A Stanford University Press classic.Author: Wilfred StoneISBN-10: 0804702632ISBN-13: 9780804702638Publisher: Stanford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1966Pages: 444Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d

This thirteenth and final volume of previously unpublished writings by Northrop Frye gathers together autobiographical reflections, short stories, an unfinished novel, and commentary on a wide range of topics from Canadian culture to religion. Drawn from holdings in the Frye archives - holograph notebooks,...