Dr Matthew (University of Exeter, UK) Wright 
Euripides and Quotation Culture 

This study reexamines the ethos of national progress by analyzing how American writers import images of ruins from European aesthetics to cast the city as a site of instability and cultural …

Addresses Early Modern representations of chastity and adultery, as well as matrimony and its dissolution in both the private and public realms, including the most well known marital dissolution, …

Addresses Early Modern representations of chastity and adultery, as well as matrimony and its dissolution in both the private and public realms, including the most well known marital dissolution, …

How does a reader learn to read an unfamiliar genre? The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal answers this question by looking at the readers of some of the first Bengali novelists, including …

This three-volume collection of primary sources examines philosophy and literature in the nineteenth-century Britain. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great …

Japan: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the culture, society, and global positioning of Japan. Starting by looking at the common stereotypes, cliches, and tropes associated with Japan, this …

The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney s Prose is the first collection of essays solely focused on examining the Nobel prize winning poet s prose. The collection offers ten different …

The first volume in the Lucy Cavendish College Lecture Series, Coercion and Trust, provides a unique multi-disciplinary dialogue on the complex links between coercion and trust from perspectives in s …

This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wallace wanted to confront despair through art, but he remained trapped, and his …