Kanneh locates Black identity in relation to Africa and discovers how histories connected with the domination, imagination, and interpretation of Africa are constructive of a range of political and theoretic parameters around race.

A comprehensive, user-friendly introduction to Alexander Popes life and works, outlining the major critical issues and offering guides to further reading.

Introducing new debates and new theorists, this collection provides a broad cross-section of contemporary Shakespearen studies, including psychoanalysis, sexual and gender politics, race and new historicism.

Investigates the connections between Poe and the nineteenth-century flaneur - or strolling urban observer - and the centrality of the flaneur to Poes literary aims and intimate yet ambivalent relationship with his surrounding culture.

Rawlings book explores the work of revolutionary critics - Henry James, Lionel Trilling and Wayne C. Booth. Packed with student-friendly features, he discusses their ideas on moral intelligence, realism and representation, and authors and narration.

Surveying the many interpretations of this provocative text, this guide showcases a selection of new critical essays to present those beginning a detailed study of the novel, a way through the contextual and critical material that surrounds it.

This collection of twenty original essays will expand the critical contexts in which Antony and Cleopatra can be enjoyed as both literature and theater.

This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the moment.

This study examines partnerships between medieval women and scribes. Kimberly Benedict argues that medieval female visionaries often play prominent roles in collaboration while their male amanuenses serves as supports and foils.

This volume, the first scholarly book on autism and the humanities, brings scholars from several different disciplines together with adults on the autism spectrum to investigate the diverse ways that autism has been represented in novels, poems,...