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A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets
This Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking about the remarkable achievement of Shakespeare’s sonnets. An authoritative reference guide and extended introduction to …
Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England
This is the first book to examine Elizabeth I's lasting impact on the Anglo-American historical imagination. John Watkins attributes her abiding popularity to her iconic role in …
National Cultures and Foreign Narratives in Italy, 1903-1943
National Cultures and Foreign Narratives charts the pathways through which foreign literature in translation has arrived in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century. To …
Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace
This book examines the writing of David Foster Wallace, hailed as the voice of a generation on his death. Critics have identified horror of solipsism, obsession with sincerity and …
Figuring Korean Futures
This book is the story of the emergence and development of writing for children in modern Korea. Starting in the 1920s, a narrator-adult voice began to speak directly to a …
Tom Moore's Diary
Originally published in 1925, this book contains the edited diary of Tom Moore, the Irish songwriter and close friend of Lord Byron. Priestley's selection of Moore's diary entries …
The Art and the Pleasures of Hare-Hunting. in Six Letters to a Person of Quality. by John Smallman Gardiner, Gent.
Pretty Creatures
Children had surprisingly central roles in many of the public performances of the English Renaissance, whether in entertainments-civic pageants, children's theaters, Shakespearean …
Orationes funebres
This is the first edition of ten Funeral Orations of Michael Psellos based on all the manuscripts preserving those works and accompanied by a full apparatus fontium and the …
Atmospheres in the Urban World
The volume offers an interdisciplinary discussion on the relevance of atmospheres of the city as well as on dwelling, drawing on Heidegger’s understanding of as the way people are …
Desperate Measures
William Logan has been called ""the most hated man in American poetry"" and the most dangerous poetry critic since Randall Jarrell. Desperate Measures continues the critical fevers …
Lectures on Greek Philosophy
Drawn from lectures delivered by the Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier, this collection critiques the foundations of Greek philosophy through historical scholarship. …