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This collection of essays by the eminent historian Joseph Strayer makes available in one volume his important shorter studies on the central theme of the political, constitutional, and institutional history of France and England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest pri

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"Revised with a new preface by the author for a new edition and annotated by Lady Byron, John Cam Hobhouse, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Charles Napier, John Murray, John Galt, William Harness, Robert Southey, Lady Caroline Lamb, Leigh Hunt, Mary Shelley, E.J. Trelawny, William Fletcher, Countess Teresa Guiccioli, and others who knew the poet personally."

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An analysis of the relationship between memory, history and the protocols of mourning in key novels by Paul Auster, Jose Saramago, David Mitchell, Haruki Murakami. >

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In this radical reinterpretation, Mr. Thompson argues that Melville, seeking to disguise his agonized conviction of the cruelty and malice of God, consistently satirized Christian doctrine. He endeavors to show that Melville resorted to literary deceptions that could simultaneously hoodwink and satirize the point of view of his orthodox readers. Th

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Argues that Melville does not belong in the tradition of the American Renaissance, but rather creates a baroque literary cartography, artistically engaging with spaces beyond the national model.

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This monograph offers a new interpretation of Melville's work (focusing on Moby-Dick, Pierre and Benito Cereno) in the light of scholarship on globalization from critics in 'new' American studies.

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This study provides a comprehensive look at the writings of Soledad Purtolas, 2010 inductee into the Real Academia Espaola, and the ways in which the contemporary individual in Spain constructs meaning and identity through memory.

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Examines fictional recreations of the First World War in the interwar years and the phenomenal success of one play, "Sheriff's Journey's End". This work challenges the notion of a 'modern' memory generated by the First World War by arguing that middlebrow texts formulated a set of images and ideas that eclipsed the wartime upheaval.

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Demonstrates how Ondaatje's multisensory, fluid and historically inflected writing can forge an intimately embodied, ethically responsible and politically enabling relationship between audience, author and text. This title investigates the political potential of the Canadian author's aesthetics.

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Demonstrates how Ondaatje's multisensory, fluid and historically inflected writing can forge an intimately embodied, ethically responsible and politically enabling relationship between audience, author and text.

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An introduction to the works of Michel Tournier. This study examines the nature of the attack which Tournier mounts on many of the norms and assumptions of Western culture, and his reinterpretation of the mythologies which have nourished and sustained it.

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An introduction to the works of Michel Tournier. This study examines the nature of the attack which Tournier mounts on many of the norms and assumptions of Western culture, and his reinterpretation of the mythologies which have nourished and sustained it.

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A comprehensive selection of Voltaire's very brief contes and melanges: tiny feats of narrative compression, each often no more than a few pages long. Their genre is something between a tale and a polemic - more gestures than stories.

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Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II, and discovers a deep sense of unease mingling with optimism about the future. By reassessing the novels, films, visual culture and technologies of the period, the book argues that gothicism itself was redefined by the upstart objects of modernity.