The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides clear, concise, and witty definitions of even the most complex literary terms from abjection to zeugma. An essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. New recommended entry-level web links updated via the Dictionary of Literary Terms companion website.

Contending that early modern fictional portrayals of sexual violence identify the position of the author with that of the chaste woman threatened with rape, this book challenges the prevalent scholarly view that this period's concept of 'The Author' was inherently masculine.

The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of his Time. McLuhans unpublished work on the classic trivium and its use in literary education.

How did the arguments developed in the debate to abolish the slave trade help to construct a British national identity and character in the late eighteenth century? This book examines books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in rhetorical strategies utilized by both sides of the abolitionist debate.

Addresses developments in literary studies, including 'the growth of a kind of anti-theory', and the idea that literary theory has been institutionalized.

Fray Angelico Chavez was an American Franciscan priest, historian, researcher, author, poet, and painter. This collection of writings combines Chavez's early fiction with his little-known novel Guitars and Adobes , originally published in 1931-32 in serialised form.

Presents a fifteenth-century English translation of De doctrina cordis , the thirteenth-century Latin devotional treatise addressed to nuns. This book contains ten essays from an international group of scholars of medieval religion discussing this Middle English translation alongside its Latin forebear, and other European vernacular translations.

Focusing on Graham Swift's insistent exploration of first-person narratives of trauma, this book examines the power of storytelling to relieve guilt. The protagonists in his novels, through narrative seek to comprehend their place in history, personal and national. It seeks to reinforce belief in storytelling as a therapeutic ritual.

Intended for aspiring writers, this coursebook covers creative process and 'going public', as well as the popular genres of fiction, poetry, and life writing. It includes sections, which offer advice and exercises, as well as extracts for study, taken from works by a range of writers, from Virginia Woolf to Patricia Highsmith.

Created and edited by Justin Kestler and Ben Florman, SparkNotes Literature Guides provide analysis of (currently) 175 classic works of English and foreign language literature - novels, biographies, plays and poetry - that most commonly appear on examination syllabuses. These books provide the insights that today's students need to know.

Created and edited by Justin Kestler and Ben Florman, SparkNotes Literature Guides provide analysis of (currently) 175 classic works of English and foreign language literature - novels, biographies, plays and poetry - that most commonly appear on examination syllabuses. These books provide the insights that today's students need to know.

Created and edited by Justin Kestler and Ben Florman, SparkNotes Literature Guides provide analysis of (currently) 175 classic works of English and foreign language literature - novels, biographies, plays and poetry - that most commonly appear on examination syllabuses. These books provide the insights that today's students need to know.

Offers an examination of early modern theatrical properties informed by the complexity of post-Reformation religious practice. This book reveals how religious stage properties functioned as fulcrums around which more subtle debates about the status of Christian worship played out.

To what extent did women writers shape and inform the aesthetics of Romanticism? Were undervalued genres such as the romance, gothic fiction, the tale, and the sentimental and philosophical novel part of a revolution leading to democratic models of taste? This book presents a study of women's prose writing during an extended Romantic period.