This study examines the practice and functions of literary translation in Anglo-American Modernism.
With her husband and their five children, Dyer had been a Shaker for two years, but as her husband grew... Læs mere
Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing discusses the role of sexuality in medieval devotional practice, looking in particular at religious writings circulating in England in the tenth to thirteenth centuries.
Queer Lyrics fills a gap in queer studies: the lyric, as poetic genre, has never been directly addressed by queer theory. Queer Lyrics considers the place of form in queer theory, while opening new vistas on the poetry of these seminal figures.
This book reconsiders a wide array of images of Byzantine empresses on media as diverse as bronze coins and gold mosaic from the fifth through to the seventh centuries A.D.
Shakespeare in mass media - particularly film, video, and television - is arguably the hottest, fastest growing research agenda in Shakespeare studies.
Vitkus's book demonstrates that the English encounter with exotic alterity, and the theatrical representations inspired by that... Læs mere
Never before have the women of the Capetian royal dynasty in France been the subject of a study in their own right. The new research in Capetian Women challenges old paradigms about the... Læs mere
This book focuses on the identity and public personae of the dogaressa, wives of the elected doges of medieval and early modern Venice. The study traces... Læs mere
The last two decades have witnessed a profound change in the way we receive the literary texts of early modern England.
There are two dominant approaches to political decision making in general and foreign... Læs mere
Toleration of differing religious ideas exists in parts of the contemporary world, but... Læs mere