This book demonstrates instead the writers' use of irony and allegory in struggling against the d...

In this interdisciplinary study of sentimental discourse of the late eighteenth century, David J....

A 1996 study of the genre of the literary fairy tale in late seventeenth-century France.

A full-length study of Beauvoir's autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of id...

In this 2001 book, Hughes explores how cultural centres require the peripheral, and the deviant t...

Michè le Longino examines the ways in which Mediterranean exoticism alters the themes in French c...

This book studies the first-person position adopted by many of the medieval troubadours of southe...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may conta...

Perpetual Motion is a collection of studies which aims to offer new sightlines between surrealism...

Proust's involvement with fin-de-siecle 'hysteria', and its impact on the writing of his great no...

This is a study of the place and nature of the ideal of politeness in seventeenth- and eighteenth...

Elza Adamowicz presents an analysis of surrealist collage, both as a technique of cutting and pas...