Ludovico Ariosto 
Orlando furioso 

An epic history of the ‘other’ Europe, a place of conflict and coexistence, of faith and folklore. ‘Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researche …

Stories can inspire love, anger, fear and nostalgia – but what is going on in our brains when this happens? And how do our minds conjure up worlds and characters from the words we read on the page? …

The first book to deal with the subject of Ezra Pound”s relationships with Japanese literature as a whole, this book provides a wealth of new scholarship on this subject, including on the …

Language has a primary importance in Jungian psychology and its practice. C. G. Jung saw every act of speech as a psychic event. Even the ‘worker’ words in language, like prepositions or conjunctions …

Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction provides a fresh approach to reading material things in modern fiction, accounting for the interplay of the material and the cultural. This volume investigates …

Analysing materials from literature and film, this book considers the fates of women who did not or could not buy into the Japanese imperial ideology of ‘good wives, wise mothers’ in support of male …

The first book-length scholarly examination of the four critically formative years of Byron”s public school experience, 1801-1805 How did Byron become ‘Byron’? In Lord Byron at Harrow School: Spea …

Winner of the Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize given by the International Conference on Romanticism This original study explores the new idea of theory that emerged in the wake of the French Revolution …

Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecraft’s influence in contemporary times. Building on a focus centered on the Anthropoc …

Intermedial Studies provides a concise, hands-on introduction to the analysis of a broad array of texts from a variety of media – including literature, film, music, performance, news and videogames, …