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Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Tod und Verklärung op. 24 (1889)

Tides of Progress

The first study of Anglo-Hispanic exchanges in print culture between the Spanish-American War and the Spanish Civil War , surfacing new archival materials to shed light on global modernities and regional …

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…

Natalie Pollard,

21st-Century Climate Imaginaries

Adopting a comparative approach, this book argues that many iconic 21st-century metaphors and images used to communicate climate change and ecological crisis actually conceal the destructive foundations o…

Elena Emma Sottilotta

Seekers of Wonder

"This book reappraises women's contribution to the field of folklore and fairy-tale studies in Italy and Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by exploring their role as preser…

Julie Nelson Couch, Kimberly K. Bell

Gaming in the Medieval English Text

This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with contemporary cultural game theory to show how the enigmatic fourteenth-century Middle English romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, la…

Philip Nel

How to Draw the World

This is a biography of the book that inspired Prince to adopt purple as his signature color, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Richard Powers to become a writer, and countless other creative people to become …

Mary Butts

"Established and new scholars, publishers, printers, and artists enter into conversation exploring the work of British author Mary Butts. Taking its cue from Butts's experimental, rhythmic writing, t…

Shakespeare in the 'Post'colonies

Shakespeare in the 'Post'Colonies provides a wide-ranging examination of engagements with and adaptations of Shakespeare in regions that were once under European colonial rule. Arguing for the 'Post'Colon…

Gemma Goodman

Alternative Cornwalls

This book takes a fresh look at the representation of Cornwall in literature. It offers new readings of familiar texts, and re-inserts little-known textual versions of Cornwall alongside those that have p…

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's essays introduce the writer to a new generation of readers.The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-90) was one of the most important literary figures of th…

Stefanie Markovits

The Number Sense of Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Explores the way that numbers interact with literary forms in the nineteenth century. The close literary readings ask why some writers engage particularly with numbers; what kinds of work numbers perform …

Erin E Edgington

Between the New Country and the Old World

William Chapman (1850-1917) wrote patriotic verse recounting the history of New France, envisioning a glorious future for its descendants. Between the New Country and the Old World challenges the prevaili…

Sarah Ruden, Sylvia Plath

I Am the Arrow

Acclaimed translator Sarah Ruden shares a fresh, myth-busting reading of Sylvia Plath's poems, revealing the full range and towering ambition of a great American poet.One of our leading interpreters of an…

A Midsummer Night's Dream: The State of Play

This volume offers new critical and performance approaches to Shakespeare's most well-known comedy of desire, a play that speaks powerfully to contemporary concerns**.**

Lee M Jenkins,

Great War Modernists

"Contesting the binaries that still exist between modernist and First World War writing, this critical group study of D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington offers a fresh perspective on the relat…

Debra Gettelman

Imagining Otherwise

"From fan fiction to "relatability"--the assessment of novels based on how easy it is to imagine the represented experiences--the individual reader's imagination has become a determining pa…

Liesl Yamaguchi

On the Colors of Vowels

On the Colors of Vowelsinvestigates the nineteenth-century emergence of discourses attributing visual properties (color, brightness) to vowels in linguistics, poetics, acoustics, opera, and experimental p…

Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver

Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…