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Bernardo Ballesteros

Divine Assemblies in Early Greek and Babylonian Epic

This book is the first to chart divine assembly scenes in ancient Babylonian and early Greek epic. It asks why similarities between the two corpora exist, and exploits those similarities to enhance unders…

Anke Walter

Festivals in Latin Literature

Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days like Ovid's Fasti. This book explores the role of festivals in elegiac, lyric, and epic p…

C M van der Keur

Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 13

This volume presents the first full-scale literary and linguistic analysis of the entire Punica 13. It includes the text and facing English translation, along with notes on syntax, textual criticism, styl…

Benjamin Mangrum

The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

Olive Schreiner, Dorothy Driver

From Man to Man or Perhaps Only--

Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man (first published in 1926 and now re-edited after the discovery of an original typescript) tells the story of two white women born into the racist, sexist, and capitalist …

Rethinking Kerouac

"Esteemed Beat commentators examine Kerouac's classic works, like On the Road, alongside more obscure ones; they bring to light new facets of Kerouac's life and work, including his excursions into pa…

Niels Caul,

James Joyce's Early Works in Ireland's Textual Cultures

Putting Joyce back into dialogue with other Irish writers of his generation, this book shows that his experiments with narrative styles and structures were a renegotiation rather than a rejection of earli…

Elisha Jane Cohn

Milieu

In this creaturely theory of the novel, Elisha Cohn rethinks the status of animals in recent global fiction, arguing that literary representation of animals should matter to any reader invested in the nov…

Maria Frawley

Jane Austen in 50 Words

This selection of short, engaging essays examines and explains key terms that Jane Austen repeatedly drew on in her fiction, words which have faded from everyday use today but are vital to understanding h…

Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the histor…

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Tod und Verklärung op. 24 (1889)

The Irish Proust

This collection of essays is the first book devoted to exploring Marcel Proust's influence on Irish literature and Irish themes within his work. Featuring contributions from eleven scholars of French and …

Jeffrey C Kinkley

China Mysteries

With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt more open than ever to global trade, communication, travel, and cultural and educati…

Rebecca Yearling

Shakespeare's Violence and the Early Modern Spectator

This book explores how Shakespeare's original audience might have responded to his scenes of violence and, in the process, makes the case that fictional violence is valuable because it tells us about ours…

Michèle Roberts

Colette

Prize-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and memoirist Michèle Roberts tells of her experience of reading the novels of French writer Colette, whose work has inspired and encouraged her throughou…

Alex Tickell

City Fictions of the New India

This books adopts a parallel approach to literary and urban form to understand how contemporary Indian English fiction engages with the city as the exemplary site of the so-called 'New India'. A wide rang…

Sarah Quesada

The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature

The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last fifty years. It challenges dominant narratives in World Literature a…

Pamela Bickley, Jenny Stevens

Essential Shakespeare

A go-to guide to help undergraduates navigate their way through university Shakespeare, examining 16 key plays.

Peter Budrin

Laurence Sterne and His Readers in Early Soviet Russia

This book examines the 1920s and 1930s as a critical juncture in the rich history of the Russian reception of Laurence Sterne, author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1759-1767) and A Sentimen…