Subject Guide: Literature

Analyses of literary texts and historical sources to show how a culture return to peace after a war.

Lists words that appear in Shakespeare's plays and in which play they are found.

Describes the physical surroundings and objects of Shakespeare's world.

Focuses on representative literary works that illustrate turns in the history of individuality and subjectivity and the changes in ones relations with community and society.

Explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages.

Explores the relationship between the plays of William Shakespeare and the writings of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.

Reveals in the works of Shakespeare and his sources the figure of the citizen-saint, who represents at once divine messenger and civil servant, both norm and exception.

Great works and authors of the world are introduced and reviewed artistically, intellectually, and theologically.

Demonstrates that philosophy, history, politics and social theory both influence and are influenced by 18th century literature.

Facts about Shakespeare's life and works.

Draws upon insights from history, theology, philosophy, and literature to connect two of the most glorious and unique truths of Christianity - its hopeful eschatology and its doctrine of a dynamic, personal Trinity.

Highlights Wayne Booth's contributions to literary and rhetorical studies.

Presents thematic groupings of titles built around current young adult literature for use in bridging to the classics.

A journey through 2 1/2 millennia of classical books as powerful, thrilling, erotic, politically astute, and awe-inspiring as any modern bestseller.

Includes excerpts from 30 of the greatest works in western literature and essays about those works written by distinguished professors, lecturers, and authors.

Shows how Shakespeare uses Hamlet to comment on the Calvinistic Protestantism predominant around 1600.

Practical and amusing guide to literature that unlocks hidden truths and discovers the world of the works.

Addresses these intriguing questions as What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment, and aggression?

Traces the process through which Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and others adapted, revised, or resisted romance, mapping a world of increasingly uncertain allegiances and affiliations.

Tells of the rise and development of literary tourism in 19th-century Britain, associated with authors from Shakespeare, Gray, Keats and Burns to Scott, the Brontë sisters, and Thomas Hardy.

Collection of psychoanalytic readings of literary texts and literary readings of psychoanalytic texts.

Covers a wide range of films adapted from a variety of sources, including classic and popular literature, drama, biography, and memoir.

Meet Shakespeare, Heine and Hogarth south of the river, find Virginia Woolf in Bloomsbury, discover Blake and Trollope in Westminster, happen on the Carlyles in Chelsea, come across John Keats in beautiful Hampstead, and search for Bacon and Hanif Kureishi in the London suburbs.

Offers a new critical examination of the complex and mutually-sustaining relationship between literature and science - and, more broadly, art and nature - in the early modern period.

Tells how classic literature inspired Christian authors.

Shows how Romantic nationalism in Britain explored irony's potential as a powerful source of civic cohesion.

Tells of over 500 literary locales across the United States and Europe.

The most comprehensive coverage available on all aspects of Shakespeare's life and works.

Acting, clerics, divine right, fidelity, fools, gender, honor, language, love, male friendship, marriage, etc.

Examines the impact of theology on Shakespeare's poetry.

Examines the religious background of Shakespeare's works and helps students use his plays to understand religion in Elizabethan England.

Using a wealth of literary to show that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling.

Applies historical formalism to Shakespeare's works.

Deals with the topic of Shakespeare and religion from the history and postmodern philosophy and theology.

Demonstrates that the classics are of central importance in Shakespeare's plays and in the structure of his imagination.

Brings together 16 original essays by leading scholars who examine Shakespeare's works in light of this new scholarship: their goal is to explore a possible interpretive consensus from Protestant, Catholic, and secular perspectives.

Argues that throughout his career Shakespeare positioned his writing politically and ideologically in relation to the ongoing and changing church-state controversies.

Examines the ways in which William Shakespeare's stories have been adapted for children, particularly in Mary and Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare in 1807.

Explores Shakespeare's understanding and use of the metaphor body politic in a range of plays.

Covers the plays, the life of Shakespeare, his world continuing influence on modern culture.

Captures and examines sociological insights in 32 essays that discuss scholars and writers not normally associated with any sociological school of thought.

Explores Shakespeare's thoroughgoing engagement with the religious culture of his time.

Addresses the ways literature and theory have engaged with literary criticism, philosophy, and history and related concerns.

Anthology of the final works of great poets.

Uses works by Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, and Donne to show that the seemingly contradictory presence of traditional and subversive elements in their major works actually creates the source of much of their literary achievement.

Shows how understanding the Elizabethan religious and legal context in which Shakespeare lived illuminates many of Shakespeare's works

Tests readers' knowledge of classic and contemporary literature.

The author recounts the story of his life through Shakespeare, and in turn shows us what Shakespeare can tell us about the world.

Explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages.

Offers an understanding of Christianity's key concepts, themes, images, and characters as they relate to English literature up to the present day.

Offers a comprehensive account of the literary and theological background to English devotional poetry of the seventeenth century, concentrating on Donne, Herbert, Vaughan and Crashaw.

Practical and amusing guide to literature that unlocks hidden truths and discovers the world of the works.

Explores Donne's divine poetry, his prose work, the Devotions Upon Emergent Occassions, and his sermons.

Argues the thesis that John Donne's poetry can now profit from being read in the context of early modern cultural experience, specifically its visual culture.

Tells how classic literature inspired Christian authors.

Develops a history of literacy between the middle of the 16th century and the middle of the 17th century by focusing on how Protestant and Catholic paradigms of the Word affect the understanding of how meaning manifests itself in language.

Provides an introduction to literature and its context from 1603-1688, including: - the historical, cultural and intellectual background.

Addresses the ways literature and theory have engaged with literary criticism, philosophy, and history and related concerns.

Anthology of the final works of great poets.

Uses works by Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, and Donne to show that the seemingly contradictory presence of traditional and subversive elements in their major works actually creates the source of much of their literary achievement.

Explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages.

Offers a comprehensive account of the literary and theological background to English devotional poetry of the seventeenth century, concentrating on Donne, Herbert, Vaughan and Crashaw.

A definitive scholarly edition of Herbert's complete English poems, accompanied by extensive explanatory and textual apparatus.

Studies and compares the poetry of George Herbert and R.S. Thomas.

Focuses on representative literary works that illustrate turns in the history of individuality and subjectivity and the changes in ones relations with community and society.

Assesses the complexity and fluidity of Christian identity along with debate about readmission of the Jews in 17th-century England.

Uses the study of the writings of men and women in the 17th century to argues that theoretical exclusion of women from the political sphere shaped their relation to it.

Challenges the widely accepted view of Milton as a poet of absolute, unquestioning certainty.

Offers a close reading of pivotal passages and critical concerns in 'Paradise Lost' and examines Milton's presentation of Adam and Eve's relationship through the intersections of theology and gender in the poem.

Practical and amusing guide to literature that unlocks hidden truths and discovers the world of the works.

Traces the process through which Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and others adapted, revised, or resisted romance, mapping a world of increasingly uncertain allegiances and affiliations.

Assesses Milton's significance to the development of early modern English political thought, his conception of the English nation, and his response to pressures exerted by a secular modernity grounded on international commercial activities.

Examines how a literary tradition of dissent against joining the state church after the return of monarchy in 1660 was produced by those who suffered political defeat and religious exclusion in Restoration England.

Challenges many received ideas about Milton's brand of Christianity, philosophy, and poetry.

Re-evaluates claims of Milton as anti-feminist, pointing out that he was not seen that way by contemporaries, but espoused startlingly modern ideas of marriage and the relations between the sexes.

Argues for the necessity of reading Milton's poetry within contemporary theological concerns and debates.

Addresses Milton's treatment of millennial and apocalyptic ideas, topics of major importance in the religious and philosophical thought of his day.

Considers how John Milton's later works demonstrate the intensive struggle of spiritual reading.

Argues that Milton's influence in the 19th century was pervasiveness.

Offers a wide-ranging exploration of how Milton's visions of tolerance reveal deeper movements in the history of the imagination.

Presents extensive information about John Milton.

Highlights the importance of Stanley Fish to Milton studies and provides major insights into the nature of Miltons works.

Examines patterns of ecclesiological and affective imagery in several of Milton's poems, including Lycidas, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain'd and Samson Agonistes.

Examines the important ways in which Lewis so clearly echoes Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen and John Milton's Paradise Lost in The Chronicles of Narnia.

An account of the life, times, politics, loves, and letters of the great English poet John Milton.

Tells how classic literature inspired Christian authors.

Tells of over 500 literary locales across the United States and Europe.

Combines commentaries on Milton's Paradise Lost in the last three centuries.

Explains the ways both regional and religious contexts inform the production, circulation and interpretation of Renaissance literary texts.

Provides an introduction to literature and its context from 1603-1688, including: - the historical, cultural and intellectual background.

Traces the path of friendship through Miltons epistolary friendship with Charles Diodati, his elegies, divorce pamphlets and poems.

Anthology of the final works of great poets.

Studies the figure of God as a literary character in the writings of John Milton.

Focuses on Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes and uses feminist and relational psychoanalytic theory to study the challenge intersubjective experience poses to doctrinal formulations of difference.

Argues for a new way of reading the figure of Milton's God, contending that Milton rejects kings on earth and in heaven.

Explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages.

Traces the process through which Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and others adapted, revised, or resisted romance, mapping a world of increasingly uncertain allegiances and affiliations.

Examines the important ways in which Lewis so clearly echoes Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen and John Milton's Paradise Lost in The Chronicles of Narnia.

Uses works by Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, and Donne to show that the seemingly contradictory presence of traditional and subversive elements in their major works actually creates the source of much of their literary achievement.