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This book investigates the history of the ancient Greek tradition of oral epic poetry which culminated in the Iliad and Odyssey. These masterpieces... Les mer

Rosemarie K. Bank

Theatre Culture in America, 1825–1860

Theatre Culture in America, 1825–1860 examines how Americans staged their cultures in the decades before the Civil War, and advances the idea that... Les mer

Tim Fulford

Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era

In 1768, Captain James Cook made the most important scientific voyage of the eighteenth century. He was not alone: scores of explorers like Cook,... Les mer

William Empson og John Haffenden (red.)

William Empson

This collection of William Empson’s essays on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama is the second volume of his writings on Renaissance literature. Edited... Les mer

R. S. White

Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature

Natural law, whether grounded in human reason or divine edict, encourages men to follow virtue and shun vice. The concept dominated Renaissance... Les mer

Andrew Murphy

Shakespeare in Print

Shakespeare in Print is a comprehensive account of Shakespeare publishing and an indispensable research resource. Andrew Murphy sets out the history... Les mer

Laurie E. Maguire

Shakespearean Suspect Texts

There are forty-one problematic play texts, variously classified as bad quartos or memorial reconstructions, from Shakespeare’s time. Textual... Les mer

Neil T. Croally

Euripidean Polemic

The book offers an interpretation of Euripides’ The Trojan Women which issues from the argument that the function of Greek tragedy was to educate.... Les mer

Nerys Williams

Reading Error

This book considers the development of the lyric form in recent American poetry of the past three decades. By concentrating on the writing of three... Les mer

James Grantham Turner

Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London

A Deluge of Libertinism swept through England in the turbulent seventeenth century: class and gender relations went into deep crisis, and sexually... Les mer

Sarah Robbins

The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe

Through the publication of her bestseller Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe became one of the most internationally famous and important... Les mer

Leland S. Person

The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne

As the author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne has been established as a major writer of the nineteenth century and the most prominent... Les mer

Kevin J. Hayes

The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville

Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby Dick is now a central work in the American literary canon. This... Les mer

M. Jimmie Killingsworth

The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass,... Les mer

Peter Messent

The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain

Mark Twain is a central figure in nineteenth-century American literature, and his novels are among the best-known and most often studied texts in the... Les mer

Philip Hardie

Ovid’s Poetics of Illusion

Ovid’s poetry is haunted obsessively by a sense both of the living fullness of the texts and of the emptiness of these ‘insubstantial... Les mer

Kirk Curnutt

The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald

Although F. Scott Fitzgerald remains one of the most recognizable literary figures of the twentieth century, his legendary life - including his... Les mer

Wendy Martin

The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson is best known as an intensely private, even reclusive writer. Yet the way she has been mythologised has meant her work is often... Les mer

Howard D. Weinbrot

Britannia’s Issue

This, Howard D.Weinbrot’s magnum opus, draws on a large range of material to chronicle the developing confidence in British national literature... Les mer

Warren Chernaik

The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s History Plays

Shakespeare’s history plays, as fresh today as when they were written, are based upon the assumption that time is not simply a destroyer but a... Les mer

Emma Smith

The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare

This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering... Les mer

Janette Dillon

The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s Tragedies

Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick’s skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments... Les mer

Ben Witherington (red.)

History, Literature, and Society in the Book of Acts

These seminal essays introduce the reader to the interdisciplinary approach of New Testament scholarship which is affecting the way the Book of Acts... Les mer

G. P. Shipp

Studies in The Language of Homer

Professor Shipp’s purpose in the first edition of this book (published in 1953) was to examine in as much detail as possible the development of the... Les mer

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