Category Archives: Literature

Martin Heidegger (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

Since the publication of his mammoth work, Being and Time, Martin Heidegger has remained one of the most influential figures in contemporary thought, and is a key influence for modern literary and cultural theory. This guidebook provides an ideal entry-point … Continue reading

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Renaissance Food from Rabelais to Shakespeare

Providing a unique perspective on a fascinating aspect of early modern culture, this volume focuses on the role of food and diet as represented in the works of a range of European authors, including Shakespeare, from the late medieval period … Continue reading

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Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race

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Jane Eyre

This is a beautifully-designed new edition of Charlotte Brontë’s impassioned novel Jane Eyre.

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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: The Poems and Lucina’s Rape

Building on the strength of Keith Walker’s acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the work of one the greatest Restoration wits. Includes the text … Continue reading

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The Business of Science Fiction: Two Insiders Discuss Writing and Publishing

Two prolific and award-winning science fiction writers, Mike Resnick and Barry N. Malzberg, have been publishing a “Dialogue” in every issue of the SFWA Bulletin, official publication of the Science Fiction Writers of America, for more than a decade. These … Continue reading

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A Companion to Medieval Poetry (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

A Companion to Medieval Poetry presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore English poetry from the Anglo-Saxon period up to the 15thcentury. Organised into three parts to echo the chronological and stylistic divisions between the … Continue reading

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Plato and Hesiod

It hardly needs repeating that Plato defined philosophy partly by contrast with the work of the poets. What is extraordinary is how little systematic exploration there has been of his relationship with specific poets other than Homer. This neglect extends … Continue reading

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Wetlands

With more than one million copies sold in Germany and rights snapped up in twenty-seven countries, Wetlands is the sexually and anatomically explicit novel that is changing the conversation about female identity and sexuality around the world. Helen Memel is … Continue reading

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The New Order of War. (At the Interface)

Far from heralding a time of unprecedented peace, the end of “actually existing communism” served to usher in new conflicts, new wars and new reasons for war. That much goes without saying. What is controversial, however, is how we might … Continue reading

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