Literary Studies

This collection of original essays offers new ways of understanding the production of epic poetry in Portugal and Spain from 1543 to 1639.

Drawing on feminist theories and cultural histories, this book interweaves historical and literary contexts of Spanish female writers and their works on war.

Digital Encounters approaches connectivity as a gravitational centre of contemporary Latin American cultural production.

This is the first English-language annotated edition of La reina di Scotia, one of the earliest dramatic works depicting the tragic end of Mary Queen of Scots.

This important new edition reintroduces Joseph Tusiani's classic translation of Michelangelo's poetry.

Building on a South Asian oral folk legend, Hidden Paradigms identifies the important symbolic patterns that well-known epic stories while also suggesting fresh strategies for further discovery.

A Woman's Empire sheds light on how women's voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia's late imperial expansion into Asia.

Boccaccio’s Florence draws on extensive archival research to reveal Boccaccio as a political figure and to show how deeply politics impacted his life and his work.

Drawing the Curtain examines the ways in which Miguel de Cervantes experiments with theatre and exploits theatricality in his diverse literary creations.

Making Worlds explores how early globalization fostered new ways of knowing and shaping the world.

Unselfing offers an account of the ways that global French writers have tried to capture experiences when the ordinary sense of the self as a source of unity, stability, and authority has been radically altered.

Acting as a lightning rod for transformative thinking, Transverse Disciplines offers exciting new methodologies for reshaping academic work beyond the bounds of traditional disciplines.

Blood Novels examines the significance of women’s blood and bloodlines in nineteenth-century Spanish literature and culture, advancing the study of gender in modern Iberian studies.

Formalists against Imperialism reveals the artistic foresight of Russian formalist and modernist writer Yuri Tynianov into the phenomenon later known as Orientalism.

The Logic of Love in the Canterbury Tales proposes a new way to understand the correlation between love and philosophy in Chaucer’s famous collection of stories.

The Medieval Devil highlights the many ways in which the devil has been imagined and re-imagined over the centuries.