A survey of 25 major European novelists from Cervantes to Kundera, highlighting their contributions to the genre.

Essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

No city more than Paris has had such a constant and deep association with the development of literary forms and cultural ideas. The idea of the city as a space of literary self-consciousness started to take hold in the sixteenth century. By 1620, where this volume begins, the first in a long line of extraordinary works of the human imagination, in which the city represented itself to itself, had begun to find form in print. This collection follows that process through to the present day. Beginning with the 'salon', followed by the hybrid culture of libertinage and the revolutionary hotbeds of...

The Romantic period saw the first generations of professional women writers flourish in Great Britain. Literary history is only now giving them the attention they deserve, for the quality of their writings and for their popularity in their own time. This collection of new essays by leading scholars explores the challenges and achievements of this fascinating set of women writers, including Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Mary Shelley alongside many lesser-known female authors writing and publishing during this period. Chapters consider major...

Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.

This Companion shows how literature and science inform one another and that they're more closely aligned than they typically appear.

This Companion shows how literature and science inform one another and that they're more closely aligned than they typically appear.

This volume offers a new introduction to the American Renaissance, exploring many of the key themes, genres, and social and cultural contexts that inform the best new scholarship in the field.

Explores a major eighteenth-century narrative and the power of the Crusoe figure beyond the pages of the original book.

Provides an accessible overview of the achievement of Edward Gibbon (1737-94), one of the world's greatest historians.