This book investigates the cultural afterlife of James Thomson’s The Seasons (1730) by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain.
Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump focuses on utopias and dystopias that either prefigure or suggest alternatives to... Læs mere
Enter the Undead Author explores the points of tension between the idea of authorship... Læs mere
This book examines how in Italian literature and film, as well as in society, women were confined to traditional roles and... Læs mere
This book shows the impact of the 1428 rediscovery of Plautus’s plays on the theory and composition of comedy, and sets Plautus’s reception apart from that... Læs mere
Expressivity in Modern Poetry examines the radical address to reality in twentieth-century modernism. This legacy is foundational for contemporary poetry. New constructions of subjectivity and a turn toward language now characterize both poetic composition and critical theory.
A scholarly work of synthesis and interpretation that focuses on encounters with light, this book tells the story of its seducing... Læs mere
Closer examination of foundational, revolutionary documents, and of the colonial... Læs mere
This critical volume offers an overview and close analysis of Italian women’s autobiographical writings from the... Læs mere
The subject of this book is Shakespeare’s investigation of religious ideas and phenomena that, from the Church’s perspective, range from traditional orthodox belief to radical... Læs mere
On the basis of institutional and poetological analyses of legal trials concerning literature held in South Africa... Læs mere