Leah Tether 
General Reader and the Academy 
Medieval French Literature and Penguin Classics

Anne Middleton”s essays have been among the most vigorous, learned, and influential in the field of medieval English literature. Their ”crux-busting” energies have illuminated local obscurities …

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 …

Thomas Dekker”s singular comic drama, The Shoemakers” Holiday moves through the urban landscape of 16th century apprenticeships and artisan production in this tale of thwarted marriages and class …

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 …

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 …