Garland Reference Library of the Humanities
Textual Transgressions: Essays Toward the Construction of a Biobibliography
1st Edition
By David Greetham
July 11, 2016
Both an intellectual autobiography and a chronicle of the ideological and methodological upheaval in textual studies during the last two decades, this book presents provocative essays by one of the foremost textual scholars of our day. As founder and executive director of the interdisciplinary ...
Women in Medieval Western European Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Linda E. Mitchell
February 29, 2016
This is the book that teachers of courses on women in the Middle Ages have been wanting to write-or see written-for years. Essays written by specialists in their respective fields cover a range of topics unmatched in depth and breadth by any other introductory text. Depictions of women in ...
Gore On Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore
1st Edition
Edited
By John Franceschina
June 23, 2015
It is a generally accepted fact that in the first half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Gore became the most prolific, if not most popular writer of fashionable novels in England. It is less well known that Mrs. Gore's 200-volume output included eleven extremely popular, if not always ...
King Arthur's Modern Return
1st Edition
Edited
By Debra N. Mancoff
April 28, 2014
The Arthurian legend closes with a promise: On a distant day, when his country calls, the king will return. His lost realm will be regained, and his shattered dream of an ideal world will, at last, be realized. This collection of original essays explores the issue of return in the modern Arthurian ...
The Arthurian Name Dictionary
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher W. Bruce
December 01, 1998
This text presents a comprehensive dictionary of characters, places, objects and themes found in the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Information is drawn from significant Arthurian sources between Gildas's "De Excidio Britanniae" (c.540) and Tennyson's 19th-century "...
Gay and Lesbian Poetry: An Anthology from Sappho to Michelangelo
1st Edition
By James J. Wilhelm
May 01, 1995
First published in 1995. This anthology focuses on European languages, but also includes Arabic and Hebrew poetry of medieval Spain, arranged chronologically and accompanied by commentary about the poets' lives and work....