Literature: history & criticism books

The quest for truth, foreseeing the future, solving the enigmas of the past, finding answers to acute questions: all this was promised by oracles already in antiquity. Although the rise of Christianity meant a break with this...

Panic and mourning are two distinct emotional constructs that often intersect and interplay in landscapes of conflict, violence, crisis, tragedy and catastrophe, both natural and man-made. Whereas panic tends to occur during the...

The quest for truth, foreseeing the future, solving the enigmas of the past, finding answers to acute questions: all this was promised by oracles already in antiquity. Although the rise of Christianity meant a break with this...

Panic and mourning are two distinct emotional constructs that often intersect and interplay in landscapes of conflict, violence, crisis, tragedy and catastrophe, both natural and man-made. Whereas panic tends to occur during the...

Nineteenth-century outlaw Ned Kelly is perhaps Australia 's most famous historical figure. This book explains the processes by which the cultural memory of Kelly has developed over time, and how it has related to negotiations of...

Nineteenth-century outlaw Ned Kelly is perhaps Australia 's most famous historical figure. This book explains the processes by which the cultural memory of Kelly has developed over time, and how it has related to negotiations of...

Johann August Eberhard (1739-1809) was one of the most renowned and controversial proponents of German popular philosophy during the late 18th century. By 1800 at the latest, the triumphal march of Kantian criticism had swept...

Johann August Eberhard (1739-1809) was one of the most renowned and controversial proponents of German popular philosophy during the late 18th century. By 1800 at the latest, the triumphal march of Kantian criticism had swept...

This book describes the relationship between Northern Europeans and the regencies of the Ottoman Empire in North Africa (what were known as the Barbary States) during the early modern period. For the Northern Europeans, who saw...

This book describes the relationship between Northern Europeans and the regencies of the Ottoman Empire in North Africa (what were known as the Barbary States) during the early modern period. For the Northern Europeans, who saw...

Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, T'ang-era rebel poet Han Shan is an icon of Chinese poetry and Zen. He and his sidekick, Shih Te, are known as the laughing, ragged pair who left...

An engaging and lively tour through the scatological, the flatulent and the cloacal in English literature over four centuries. Will appeal to cultural historians, and English literature scholars and students.

Long overshadowed by her more widely read and reprinted son Anthony, Frances Trollope is almost exclusively remembered for her travel writing and especially for the notoriously controversial Domestic Manners of the Americans. Her...

Offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America's Gilded Age who lost - and found - themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them. This study reveals the centrality of the era's...