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Heroisches Elend - Miseres de l'heroisme - Heroic Misery
Hundert Jahre nach dem Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs werfen uber siebzig Beitrage auf Deutsch, Franzosisch und Englisch einen kulturwissenschaftlich aktuellen Blick auf dessen …
Adventures in Transcendental Materialism
Adrian Johnston's transcendental materialism offers a new theoretical approach to the issues of science vs religion and mind vs body. Arming himself with resources provided by …
A Letter, Containing an Account of Some Antiquities Between Windsor and Oxford; With a List of the Several Pictures in the School-gallery Adjoyning to the Bodlejan Library. Written An. Dom. MDCCVIII
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Figures of Reality
Figures of Reality (1981) may be described as a polemic against those who feel poetry to be remote from normal life – an abstruse and empty game. The author argues from a contrary …
Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the establishment of the new Safavid regime in Iran. Along with reuniting the Persian lands under one rule, the Safavids initiated the …
Crossing Cultures
Crossing Cultures brings together scholars in the field of reception and translation studies to chart the individual and institutional agencies that determined the reception of …
Critical Essays on Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint
Despite the outpour of interpretations, from critics of all schools, on Shakespeare's dramatic works and other poetic works, A Lover's Complaint has been almost totally ignored by …
Guilty Creatures
This study examines how Renaissance poets conceive the theme of killing as a specifically representational and interpretive form of violence. Closely reading both major poets and …
Ancient History: History of the Ancient World: Ancient Civilizations, and Ancient Empires. History That Defined Our World
Soulful Creatures
A fascinating mix of archaeology, history, and medical imaging shedding new light on ancient Egyptian animal mummies, this fully illustrated volume explores the important role …
Shakespeare's History
First published in 1947 in the USA. This edition reprints the first UK edition of 1964. Published to critical acclaim, the central argument of this book is that the historical play …
Gothic dreams and nightmares
Gothic dreams and nightmares is an edited collection on the compelling yet under-theorised subject of Gothic dreams and nightmares ranging across more than two centuries of …