Huysmans (1848-1907) grappled from the beginning with the problem of acknowledging the authority of his sources while appropriating and adapting them to his own literary art, says Ziegler (humanities,
This book examines the way in which French writer/educator Félicité de Genlis theorized the maternal role in her works, as well as the manner in which she lived out her own maternity. Illuminating her
This collection reflects the distinct methods and insights Stephen Booth has brought to the reading of Shakespeare for more than forty years. Together these essays suggest how his approach enhances th
This study explores the vestiges of primitive sacrificial rituals that emerge in a group of canonical modernist novels, includingThe Turn of the Screw, Heart of Darkness, The Good Soldier, The Great G
This volume grows out of a symposium commemorating the three-hundredth anniversary of the publication of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, held at the University of Mary
Shakespeare in China is an attempt to explore systematically and deeply the nature and significance of the interaction between Shakespeare and traditional Chinese drama and between the dramatist and C
Clio's Daughters exposes the reality behind the notion that nineteenth-century history was an exclusively male preserve. A fortuitous convergence of factors—including the popularization of history and
Displacing the novel from the central position it has held in studies concerned with the origin or rise of the English novel, Satire, History, Novel considers novelistic forms as part of a network of
