Hailed as "the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind," this work paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and ...

The daughter of J.D. Salinger offers a portrait of life with her reclusive father, providing a study of her complex family relationships.

An advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy for those who do not read Greek.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self.

No writer negotiated as many worlds; no serious writer had as many glamorous lovers. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based.

A survey of popular culture in 16th century Italy.

Blending the fictional with the factual, this highly praised novel ranges from the warm shores of seventeenth-century Barbados to the harsh realities of the slave trade, and the cold customs of Puritanical New England.

Here the master storytellers Geoffrey Ward, Ken Burns, and Dayton Duncan give us the first fully illustrated biography of Mark Twain, American literature's touchstone, its funniest and most inventive figure.".

As well as an authoritative text, this edition boasts an introduction that explores multiple facets of the play.