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European Erotic Romance casts new light on the publication, translation and politicisation of three ancient Greek novels, Daphnis and Chloe, Leukippe and Kleitophon and An Ethiopian Story, and their impact in Renaissance England. -- .

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An anthology of key theoretical writings by the major representatives of the schools and movements of European literature. Each chapter in this book is devoted to one particular school of movement from within a body of literature, from romanticism, realism and modernism through to the literature of political engagement of the 1920s and 1930s.

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A pioneering work in comparative European literature by a leading American scholar. >

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The So-called Local Color Literature emerged in the mid nineteenth century, both in the US and Europe. This book, on the European tradition covers the German ("Dorfgeschichten" - more or less "village histories"), French ("Contes" or "stories"), Irish, and Scottish traditions in detail, with a chapter devoted to each.

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This collection of transnational, globalized European literature studies envisions understanding the intersection of our contemporary world and various writers in exile in new cultural, historical, spatial, and epistemological frameworks. The collection features essays on such major writers as Joyce, Kafka, Nabokov, and many others.

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The first to systematically examine Waughs relationship with cinema in the context of modernism, this book examines his departure from high modernism, which took the form of an outward turn privileging exteriority over the interiority of consciousness, foregrounding talk and drawing on cinema, comedy, and satire.

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Surveys the work of Evelyn Waugh and his literary explorations of the themes of Catholicism, society and the family.

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What if bed-hopping among university students was not just inevitable, but mandatory A sexy radical girl, an over-sexed jock and an ancient professor of Ancient Greek discover that with the lights off, a serious attempt to end discrimination can also be a very dirty joke.

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The 1601 quarto version of Johnson's play, set in Florence -- .

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An assemblage of extracts from the complete works of Charles Dickens, including his speeches. Included are 27 extended extracts, largely from the fictional works, which capture the greatest scenes in the oeuvre, including the trial of Bardell v.

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Explores the afterlives of Jane Austen's work in literature, film and popular culture. This study investigates the popular appropriations of Austen in England and America.

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Explores the afterlives of Jane Austen's work in literature, film and popular culture. This study investigates the popular appropriations of Austen in England and America.

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An up-to-date, comprehensive and interdisciplinary interpretationof notions of evil in French literature and thought.

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Examines the ongoing construction of Jewish identity in 20th century German culture.

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Through a close reading of Charles Anthons personal notes, this book studies the persistence of the American Revolutionary memory and the indelible link between landscape and memory.

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Examines how English writers from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration transformed and contested the ancient ideal of the virtuous mean. This book argues that English authors used the ancient schema of means and extremes in innovative and contentious ways hitherto ignored by scholars.

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Examples, crucial links between discourse and society's view of reality, have until now been largely neglected in literary criticism. In the first book-length study of the rhetoric of example, John Lyons situates this figure by comparing it with more frequently studied tropes such as metaphor and synecdoche, discusses meanings of the terms example

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An exploration of the paradigm of alienation in post-war literature through close readings of nine novels. It details how nine different 'outsider' authors treat the theme of alienation in one of their major works. It reviews the novels that were written in a limited time span (1942 to 1987, approximately 50 years).