In this new study of George Eliot's fiction, textual attempts to imagine a coherent and unified national past are seen as producing a contradictory vision of Englishness. It is a historiographical national identity, constructed in the image of predominant, and conflicting, trend…
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A study of different trends in English criticism during the first several decades of this century.
The Pulitzer Prize?winning, New York Times betselling novel of North Korea: an epic journey into the heart of the world's most mysterious dictatorship. "Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which [Adam] Johnson is painting here." ?The Wa…
This accessible, illustrated introduction takes the reader through the rich Chinese literary tradition from ancient times to the twentieth century.
This handbook is a study of Latin literature, including not only the classical and post-classical pagan authors, but also a representative selection of the Christian writers down to the death of St. Augustine.
En beskrivelse af Spaniens kolonisering af Mexico i renæssancen og mødet mellem aztekere og spanske katolikker for at belyse, hvad der sker, når to kulturer støder sammen
Wars have been waged so continuously through human history that they are regarded as unavoidable, but the increasing destructiveness to civilians and the environment makes pacifism an urgent and viable alternative. This book argues that imaginative writers have, since the fourte…