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An introduction and summary to William Godwin, bringing together the best of his writings.

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This book provides a new way of understanding queer culture. The frameworks offered by queer theorysteeped in philosophical, theoretical and political commitments to 'difference'have obscured the important investments in 'sameness' that have been central to queer history. Same old dwells on these investments and elucidates their significance.

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In this volume, Wilson asks why Shakespeare remained so enigmatic about his religious beliefs, and demonstrates how he constructed a self-concealing theatre of darkness, deferral, evasion and disguise. This will be essential reading for all Shakespearean scholars, especially those with an interest in the Bard's Catholic connections. -- .

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Whos the true author of Frankenstein The evidence and the debate can be found here.

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Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws on contemporary Western literary and cultural theories and on a knowledge of Dazai's work in the context

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Featuring essays by leading scholars of surrealism, this book offers the first sustained critical inquiry into the multifaceted writing of women associated with surrealism, and highlights howthis oeuvre intersects with and contributes to contemporary debates on gender, sexuality, subjectivity, otherness, anthropocentrism, and the environment.

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This new edition of Plato's Symposium provides beginning readers and scholars alike with a solid, reliable translation that is both faithful to the original text and accessible to contemporary readers. In addition, the volume offers a number of aids to help the reader make his or her way through this remarkable work.

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Includes ten speeches that illustrate Cicero's entire career and exemplify the major contexts for his oratory: before the senate, the people, and the courts. This title illuminates the major political crises of Cicero's time and offers portraits of many of the major political figures.

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First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume.

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"The Passages: Key Moments in History series brings highly accessible introductory histories to students and academics alike, supplemented by a wealth of rich original-source materials. In The East India Company, Ian Barrow elucidates the birth, reign, and death of one of the most formidable commerce companies in the history of the Western world."--Provided by publisher.

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Selections from both the Iliad and the Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.

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Includes a poem that tells how Hades, lord of the underworld, abducted the goddess Persephone and how her grieving mother, Demeter, the goddess of grain, forced the gods to allow Persephone to return to her for part of each year.

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This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion, politics, education, rhetoric, and culture from the late fifteenth through the early eighteenth centuries. -- .

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Profiles of four American writers showing how they interact with the landscapes they live and write in

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Is "Cupid and Psyche" a romance, a folktale, a Platonic allegory of the nature of the soul, a Jungian tale of individuation, or an archetypal dream This book provides a translation of this best known section of "Apuleius' Golden Ass".

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The classic study of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, by the great of socialist critic

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Probes the uses and abuses of world literature in a changing world. This book looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global contexts. It argues that world literature is work that gains in translation.

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While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake's literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary. -- .