Brings together research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change. The essays are... Læs mere
Emmanuel Levinas's voice is crucial to the resurging global attention to ethics because he grapples with the quintessential problem... Læs mere
Offers an annotated selection of literature from authors who focus on the natural world and the beauty of Ireland. The anthology begins with... Læs mere
Defoe's The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was almost always published together with The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. In addition to fulfilling the promise of the first volume, The Farther Adventures is an exciting adventure novel by itself.
Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteenth-century Britain, and posits its centrality to women’s engagement with national and gender politics.
Provides a book-by-book commentary on the The Iliad’s 24 parts. Endnotes clarify and elaborate on myths that Homer leaves unfinished, explain terms and phrases, and provide background information. The volume concludes with a general bibliography of work on the Iliad.
In this timely collection, teacher-scholars of “the long eighteenth century,” a Euro-centric timeframe from about 1680 to 1832,... Læs mere
British Romanticism and Prison Reform is the first full-length study to explore and define the close relationship between British Romantic literary texts, on the... Læs mere
John Banville offers a close analysis of most of Banville’s major novels, his Quirke crime novels, and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleist’s plays. Banville’s work has been... Læs mere
This wide-ranging study of one of the most innovative, daring, and important poetic voices in contemporary Ireland analyzes Mebdh McGuckian’s entire corpus, offering both an original... Læs mere
Enriching and complicating the history of fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at... Læs mere