Literary Studies / Book & Print Culture

A multidisciplinary study of the art and science of botany in Shakespeare’s time, Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance excavates plant natural history as a vital resource for reimagining categories of embodiment, including gender and sex.

Quixotic Quests explores the publication of the special 1946 edition of Don Quixote illustrated by Salvador Dalí, analysing the artist’s didactic compositions, revealing the book’s material history, and tracing the mid-century reception of both.

This book investigates how a noted fourteenth-century Castilian writer developed and disseminated a concept of individual authorship.

Defining and Defying Borders describes how journals, magazines, and newspapers chart the complex postcolonial relationship between Spain and Latin America during the modernist era.

This book examines imagery of the eponymous character from La Celestina from the early sixteenth century until today.

Through extensive research and reference to new archival material, Cavell recaptures and examines the experience of nineteenth-century readers.

Images at War is a much-needed study of this early news medium and its part in the construction of nationalism in the midst of war.

In American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle, Kirsten MacLeod examines the rise of a new print media form – the little magazine – and its relationship to the transformation of American cultural life at the turn of the twentieth century.

For the Encouragement of Learning examines the historical origins of copyright law in Canada.

A groundbreaking study, Dominion and Agency is an important exploration of the legal and economic structures that were instrumental in the formation of today's Canadian literary culture.

This collection of short stories by L.M. Montgomery reveals the early workings of parts of Anne of Green Gables, its sequels, and her other ever-popular novels.

Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librarians delves into the practice of bibliophilia – the love of books – and the many ways in which books are represented in modern Spanish literature.

Media Critique in the Age of Gillray reflects on print and paper culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, crafting a new approach to British visual culture.

Making the Bible French examines the Bible historiale, the most prolific and influential pre-Reformation French-language Bible.

Applying media theory to late-Victorian print, Making Pictorial Print shows how popular illustrated magazines developed a new design interface that encouraged dynamic engagement and media literacy in the British public.

Beowulf as Children’s Literature brings together a group of scholars and creators to address important issues of adapting the Old English poem into textual and pictorial forms that appeal to children, past and present.