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Featuring twenty one newly-commissioned essays, A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion demonstr…

This book is the definitive guide to Victorian poetry, which its author approaches in the light of modern critical concerns and contemporary contexts.…

A Companion to Persius and Juvenal breaks new ground in its in-depth focus on both authors as «satiric successors»; detailed individual contributions …

A Companion to the Latin Language presents a collection of original essays from international scholars that track the development and use of the Latin…

Featuring 37 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the deve…

A Short History of Early Modern England presents the historical and cultural information necessary for a richer understanding of English Renaissance l…

The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and geneal…

A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore …

Through original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-…

A scholarly review of American world literature from early times to the postmodernist era American World Literature: An Introduction explores how the …

After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and lite…

Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical and …

A Companion to American Literary Studies addresses the most provocative questions, subjects, and issues animating the field. Essays provide readers wi…

This concise companion examines contexts that are essential to understanding and interpreting writing in English produced in the period between approx…

This innovative guide to the Latin language, written for a new generation of students, deploys examples and translation exercises taken exclusively fr…

The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical…

The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary an…

Selected by Choice as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title Awarded a 2012 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Scienc…

This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature – from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of …

Regarded by many as the equal of Shakespeare in poetic imagination and expression, Milton was also a prolific writer of prose, applying his potent gen…

Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor develops an inclusive theory that integrates psychological, aesthetic, and ethical issues relating t…

1611: Authority, Gender, and the Word in Early Modern England explores issues of authority, gender, and language within and across the variety of lite…

A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, enga…

Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship …

In its original formulation, ‘culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating ‘the people' by bringing…

A delightful look at the epic literary history of the short, poetic genre of the epigram From Nestor’s inscribed cup to tombstones, bathroom walls, an…

Provides a broad view of the history and current state of scholarship on the art of the ancient Near East This book covers the aesthetic traditions of…

A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical rece…

Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theater in Classical Greece to the Roman Empir…

Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British and I…

A Companion to the City of Rome presents a series of original essays from top experts that offer an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current r…

The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and geneal…

A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic offers a diversity of perspectives to explore how differing approaches and methodologies can cont…

In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inabilit…

Terror and the Postcolonial is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture. A groun…

Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey avail…

Provides a detailed map of contemporary critical theory in Renaissance and Early Modern English literary studies beyond Shakespeare A Handbook of Engl…

A comprehensive introduction to Old English, combining simple, clear philology with the best literary works to provide a compelling and accessible beg…

This accessible and fresh account of German writing since 1750 is a case study of literature as a cultural and spiritual resource in modern societies.…

A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story pa…

Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of t…

A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is explored through 33 original…

Exploring Greek Myth offers an extensive discussion of variant forms of myths and lesser-known stories, including important local myths and local vers…