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The Theatre in America during the Revolution
This is a comprehensive attempt to assemble all that is known of theatre at the time of America’s political birth. Because many plays performed... Les mer
Author and Audience in Latin Literature
The relationship between the author and his audience has received much critical attention from scholars in non-classical disciplines yet the nature... Les mer
Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity
This book explores the much maligned and misunderstood genre of declamation. Instead of a bastard rhetoric, declamation should be seen as a venue... Les mer
Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot
This collection of essays brings together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches to study T. S. Eliot’s engagement with desire,... Les mer
Henry James and Queer Modernity
In Henry James and Queer Modernity, Eric Haralson examines far-reaching changes in gender politics and the emergence of modern male homosexuality as... Les mer
Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist
In this study, Lukas Erne argues that Shakespeare, apart from being a playwright who wrote theatrical texts for the stage, was also a literary... Les mer
Shakespeare’s Serial History Plays
Shakespeare’s Serial History Plays provides a re-reading of the two sequences of English history plays, Henry VI-Richard III and Richard II-Henry... Les mer
Commonwealth Principles
The republican writing of the English revolution has attracted a major scholarly literature. Yet there has been no single treatment of the subject as... Les mer
Richard Wollheim on the Art of Painting
Richard Wollheim is one of the dominant figures in the philosophy of art, whose work has shown not only how paintings create their effects but why... Les mer
Poetry and Civil War in Lucan’s Bellum Civile
Lucan is the wild maverick among Latin epic poets. Sneered at for over a century for failing to conform to humanist canons of taste and propriety, in... Les mer
Inventing Homer
How was the poet Homer imagined by ancient Greeks? This book examines stories circulating between the sixth and fourth centuries BC about his birth,... Les mer
The Passions in Play
This monograph is devoted to the most important of Seneca’s tragedies, Thyestes, which has had a notable influence on Western drama from... Les mer
Hvorfor har det ikke vært noen store kvinnelige kunstnere?
I følge forfatteren er kunsten uløselig knyttet til samfunnsstrukturen, og kvinners kunst må forstås i lys av institusjonelle... Les mer
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Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority
This book explores how Horace’s poems construct the literary and social authority of their author. Bridging the traditional distinction between... Les mer
Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood
This book applies comparative cultural and literary models to a reading of Catullus’ poems as social performances of a ‘poetics of manhood’: a... Les mer
Eighteenth-Century Satire
Howard D. Weinbrot here collects thirteen of his most important essays on Restoration and eighteenth-century British satire. Divided into sections on... Les mer
Views of American Landscapes
This book is about the ways American and British writers, painters and photographers have represented the American environment. It brings together... Les mer
Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland
Ireland is increasingly recognized as a crucial element in early modern British literary and political history. Christopher Highley’s book explores... Les mer
Visions of Violence
Nazi Germany's book burnings, its campaign against "degenerate art," and its persecution of experimental artists pushed the avant garde... Les mer
The Creation of Art
Although creativity, from Plato onwards, has been recognized as a topic in philosophy, it has been overshadowed by investigations of the meanings and... Les mer
Shakespeare’s Troy
Heather James examines the ways in which Shakespeare handles the inheritance and transmission of the Troy legend. She argues that Shakespeare’s use... Les mer
Fictions of Labor
Fictions of Labor considers William Faulkner’s representation of the structural paradoxes of labour dependency in the Southern economy from the... Les mer
Anglo-Saxon England (No. 6)
Work in this volume offers insights into the Anglo-Saxons’ literature, both Latin and vernacular, their study of Latin, their documents, art and... Les mer
Ancient Anger
Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every... Les mer