(Paperback)

Provides a critical introduction to Caryl Churchill's play "Top Girls", giving students an overview of the background and context for the play; detailed analysis of the its structure, style and characters; a practical analysis of key production issues and choices; and, an overview of the performance history focusing on key productions.

(Hardback)

Provides a comprehensive critical introduction to "Top Girls", giving students an overview of the background and context for the play. This work includes accounts of performance history, production analysis, screen adaptations and summaries of important critical approaches and debates.

(Paperback)

This book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain may be seen as legacies of this largely ignored, but deeply significant, past. -- .

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

This book is the first to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I's nascent empire, an Ireland of colonizing English farmers and an imported Protestant elite living in fortified manors and medieval castles -- .

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

"Castration desire theorizes an alternative form of masculinity in global literature that is less egocentric and more sustainable, in terms of both gendered and environmental power dynamics"--

(Paperback)

Shows how Benjamin's thoughts regarding the individual's experience of the material world make significant contact with post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

(Hardback)

This highly original study provides a new context for understanding the works of canonical authors such as Joyce and George Moore by discussing them in light of the now almost forgotten writing from which they emergedthe several hundred novels that were written during the period, many of them by women writers.

(Hardback)

Women have been writing in the Catholic tradition since early medieval times, yet no single volume has brought together critical evaluations of their works until now.

(Hardback)

The first book-length history of the classic French childrens author, the comtesse de Sgur (1799-1874). Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, in France Sgur is a national icon and a cultural phenomenon. This study of her life and works will interest scholars of childrens literature, gender studies, and nineteenth-century France.

(Paperback, Revised edition)

This book offers introduction, Latin text, translation and literary commentary on seventeen poems by Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

Provides for the first time an inclusive and detailed view of C. P. Cavafy as a World poet, tracing his critical reception, his translation history and his works multiple interpretations around the globe, from the 1920s to the present.

(Paperback, Expanded Edition)

C P Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. This work on Cavafy in English describes Cavafy's literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth.

(Hardback)

This is the first collection of essays devoted to Edmund Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos (1609), and it celebrates the 400th anniversary of the first publication of that intriguing, posthumously-published fragment of his unfinished epic, The Faerie Queene . -- .

(Paperback)

Looks at the explicit and implicit forms of censorship to which literature in translation is vulnerable

(Hardback)

Looks at the explicit and implicit forms of censorship to which literature in translation is vulnerable

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

"A first-of-its-kind study on Central American literature that illuminates classics and highlights new pathways by exploring texts and writers that go beyond or against the confines of the nation-state"--

(Hardback)