John Muir 
John Muir: Nature Writings (LOA #92) 

This study reexamines the ethos of national progress by analyzing how American writers import images of ruins from European aesthetics to cast the city as a site of instability and cultural …

Addresses Early Modern representations of chastity and adultery, as well as matrimony and its dissolution in both the private and public realms, including the most well known marital dissolution, …

Addresses Early Modern representations of chastity and adultery, as well as matrimony and its dissolution in both the private and public realms, including the most well known marital dissolution, …

How does a reader learn to read an unfamiliar genre? The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal answers this question by looking at the readers of some of the first Bengali novelists, including …

Thomas Dekker”s singular comic drama, The Shoemakers” Holiday moves through the urban landscape of 16th century apprenticeships and artisan production in this tale of thwarted marriages and class …

This three-volume collection of primary sources examines philosophy and literature in the nineteenth-century Britain. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great …

The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney s Prose is the first collection of essays solely focused on examining the Nobel prize winning poet s prose. The collection offers ten different …

The first volume in the Lucy Cavendish College Lecture Series, Coercion and Trust, provides a unique multi-disciplinary dialogue on the complex links between coercion and trust from perspectives in s …

This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wallace wanted to confront despair through art, but he remained trapped, and his …