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This bilingual work aims to identify and explain the subversive rewriting of ancient, medieval and modern myths in contemporary novels.The book opens with two theoretical essays on …

This book examines class and its representation in Victorian literature, focusing on the emergence of the lower middle class and middle-class responses to it. Arlene Young analyses …

Carla is a down-on-her-luck witch whose skills aren't up to snuff when it comes to both magic and her work. Although her main business is running an apothecary that's been in …

Friends are at the centre of novels by everyone from George Eliot to Elena Ferrante. It is nearly impossible to name a work of fiction that is not enriched by the tensions and …

Valerie Sokol's dramatic novel draws her readers quickly to center stage where Isabelle is confronted by a merciless Southerner who makes a high stakes wager against her. This …

Based on a true story, Onesimus is the tale of a young, unhappy slave who lived during the first century Roman Empire. The world is a highly structured society of deities, slaves, …

My name's Karina-or at least, it is now! I used to be a nondescript, run-of-the-mill Japanese salaryman until I was whisked away to a divine realm where the Goddess of Time and …

This volume examines the various processes at work in expressing silence and excessive speech in contemporary novels in English, covering the whole spectrum from effusiveness to …

After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in the history of Western physiognomy, Dr. Tytler examines the literary portrait in the …