Sir gawain and the green knight

Dual text on facing pages, now revised and updated edition of this Middle English Arthurian romance. Critically acclaimed translation now in its twenty fifth year. Extensive notes, glossary and introduction.

Hidden heroes

Hidden Heroes is a collection of short stories from the 1980s to present that unveil the lives of ordinary North Koreans. Through themes of identity, community, and power, it reveals a complex society, offering readers a nuanced understanding beyond prevailing stereotypes.

Dirty books

The fascinating story of fearless and innovative publishers and authors who wrote their own sexual revolution before the sexual revolution.

Plays and performance texts by women 1880–1930

An exciting new anthology of plays and performance texts by British and American women from the late nineteenth century to the early 1930s. Written in an accessible style for students it contains an overview and two introductory essays, as well as biographical materials on each of the writers.

Antonio and mellida

A new in paperback edition of this first play by John Marston to be performed by the revived Paul's Company in 1599. Fully annotated with critical introduction and full commentary.

Writing black britain, 1948–98

The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period within a single volume.. Spanning half a century, this rich archive of representations includes South Asian, African and Carib...

Mon coeur pleure d'autrefois

Grégoire Le Roy was at school with Maeterlinck and Van Leberghe, and grew up in the same atmosphere of intellectual ferment. His first published collection pre-dates Maeterlinck’s Serres chaudes. This is the first edition since their original publication of the three collections of poems by a sig...

Le commerce du parnasse

This edition of Françoise Pascal’s collection epistolary highlights a rare, innovative and entertaining work by a woman writer unknown today, but in her time a distinguished playwright, poet and painter. Now in its first modern edition, this text provides new insights into seventeenth-century lif...

Political speeches and journalism (1923-1929)

This book reprints a wide variety of articles and speeches for the first time since they appeared in Spanish and foreign journals and in clandestine broadsheets from France. Some censored material has been restored.

La troade

This is the first edition since 1641 of a play whose importance lies partly in its links with Racine’s Andromaque but more particularly in its dramaturgical, psychological and thematic originality in adapting its traditional classical material for the seventeenth-century stage.

Mustapha et zéangir

An historical tragedy by an eighteenth century playwright.

Confession de fe christiana

On 21st January 1561 Casiodoro de Reina, the head of the Spanish Protestant community in London, presented the French Consistory of the Strangers' Churches with a confession of faith, the Confession de Fe Christiana. His purpose was to have the Spanish Church accepted beside the other foreign Chu...

The treaty of bayonne (1388)

The Treaty of Bayonne of 1388 between Juan I, King of Castile, and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and Pretender to the Castilian throne, was one of the most important treaties of the Hundred Years War. In the transcription of the documents, the original spellings of words, however inconsistent,...

Dissertations contre corneille

Dissertations Contre Corneille chronicles one of the great literary controversies of seventeenth-century France. In 1663, François Hédelin, l’abbé d’Aubignac, published four dissertations in which he criticised with increasing ferocity the most famous and greatest playwright of the century, Corne...

Villiers de l'isle-adam

An edition, in French, of this 1892 text by Mallarmé. Edited, annotated and introduced by Alan Raitt.

Phalante

This play by a young Toulouse lawyer-poet, was published posthumously in 1611 and has since been largely neglected. It is reprinted here for the first time, accompanied by an introductory study, explanatory notes and a glossary.

La soeur

La Soeur (1645) is one of the liveliest and most successful comedies by Jean Rotrou. The introduction to this new edition assesses the originality of Rotrou’s adaptation. The notes are devoted above all to linguistic questions and to the many exotic allusions found in the text.

Penitencia de amor (burgos, 1514)

An early sixteenth century Spanish romance.

Histoire de calejava

An eighteenth-century work considered historically significant as it depicts ‘for the first time, a religious system which is unequivocally deistic.’ This is a volume in the Exeter French Texts series. The text, introduction and essential notes are all in French.

Dialogues révolutionnaires

Dialogues Révolutionnaires is an edition of twelve fictional dialogues of the Revolutionary period in which the various interlocuters try to come to terms with an evolving political reality and a language which is constantly developing.

Creative journeys

Dave Haslam presents conversations with creative trailblazers.Over forty years, DJ, writer and broadcaster Dave Haslam has interviewed some of the most fascinating figures in music, literature, film and art. Creative Journeys gathers revelatory conversations with creative characters including Nen...

Octave mirbeau: two plays

Octave Mirbeau was one of the most prolific literary figures of France's storied Belle Époque. This volume contains his two most celebrated plays for the first time in English-language translation: Business is Business and Charity. The book also includes an introduction contextualizing the works ...

We mark your memory: writings from the descendants of indenture

Indenture was the process whereby individuals entered, or were coerced, into an agreement to work in a colony in return for a fixed period of labour, but this was often open to abuses of power. Hidden within this little-known system of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Indian migration unde...

Epic and romance in traditional chinese culture

The epic-like saga of Wu Song has been in living oral tradition in China for more than 700 years up to the present, where it has taken the form of drama, balladry, song and storytelling.

The cædmon manuscript

The Cædmon Manuscript is one of three extant anthologies of English Christian poetry produced in England before 1000 CE.

Anthology of new woman poetry

Women poets of the late Victorian period created much fascinating verse from the standpoint of the independent and advanced New Woman, a profoundly important figure. This anthology features a broad range of crucial subjects addressed by these poets, including marriage, motherhood, female desire, ...

Memory, metaphor and mysticism in kalidasa’s abhijñānaśākuntalam

‘Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasa’s ‘AbhijñānaŚākuntalam’’ aims to read Kālidāsa’s masterpiece through poetic and philosophical resonances as evidenced in the metre, rhythm and symbolism carefully embedded in the narrative and dramatic text.

Locating australian literary memory

‘Locating Australian Literary Memory’ explores sites which are explicitly connected with eleven Australian authors through material forms of commemoration such as houses, graves, statues and assorted artefacts. While acknowledging the value of literary memorials and the voluntary labour that enab...

Colette and the incest taboo

This book makes an argument critical to literary theory and sexuality in 2025.  It argues that Colette’s fiction portrays a woman struggling to live in the throes of the incest taboo, understood in its psychological implications for power relations both private and public, then and now. 

Nineteenth-century southern gothic short fiction

Twelve uncanny tales of the race-haunted nineteenth-century South, by authors both celebrated and obscure, are presented along with background readings, themselves often chilling, placing the tales in a historical context.

Science fiction in colonial india, 1835–1905

The five stories in ‘Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835–1905’ speculate about utopian and dystopian futures. They represent the earliest Indian science fiction, imagining futures ranging from an end-of-the-world deluge to violent revolution to feminist utopia.

Horwitz publications, pulp fiction and the rise of the australian paperback

This book explores the history of Horwitz Publications, one of Australia’s largest post-war pulp publishers. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mainstream Australian publishing than has been re...

Frank norris and american naturalism

‘Frank Norris and American Naturalism’ brings together in one volume Donald Pizer’s essays on the writings of Frank Norris. The essays as a whole seek to demonstrate both the coherence of Norris’s thought and his contribution toward the establishment of a distinctive form of naturalism in America.

Lusophone african short stories and poetry after independence

This book offers a translation and critical introduction to Lusophone African postcolonial poetry and short stories

A room of one's own

A Room of One's Own is a seminal work of feminist literature, asserting that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Virginia Woolf argues that intellectual freedom is dependent upon material conditions and that true creative genius requires an "androgynous min...

The anthem anthology of victorian sonnets

‘The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets’ is a comprehensive collection consisting of over three thousand Victorian sonnets written by Victorian poets between 1836 and the early years of twentieth century.

The english apocalypse

The English Apocalypse, translated from the French in the early 14th century is valuable to scholars of early English Bible translation and to students of Middle English literature and medieval religious practice. This edition reproduces, for the first time, a copy of this text, which replaced th...

Andre malraux

Aimed to coincide with the centenary of Malraux’s birth, André Malraux: An Age of Oppression is the first translation/annotated edition of Le Temps de mépris in a comprehensive format

Now at the threshold

The translated poems in Now at the Threshold: The Late Poems of Tuvia Ruebner are from Ruebner's final three collections, all written from 2014 onward, after the poet's 90th birthday. Translated into English by award-winning translator Rachel Tzvia Back.

Travellers to the middle east from burckhardt to thesiger

An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.

Verrius, festus and paul (bics supplement 93)

The diaries of frank hurley 1912-1941

This is the first illustrated edition of the diaries kept by Australian-born photographer and film maker Frank Hurley about his work on the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, his two expeditions to Papua in the 1920s, and his experiences during the First and Second World Wars.

Marion richardson

In Marion Richardson: Her Life and Her Contribution to Handwriting, Rosemary Sassoon’s recognizes Richardson’s groundbreaking contribution to the freeing of the teaching of child art and her two handwriting schemes – the main one based on her observations of children’s pattern paintings and the n...

Marion richardson

In Marion Richardson: Her Life and Contribution to Handwriting, Rosemary Sassoon looks at Richardson's life and work through the artist and educator's own writings as well as letters and personal recollections from those who knew and worked with her. The driving force behind a momentous shift in ...

Coolitude

A deconstruction of the stereotypical depictions of the coolie in the British Empire.

Palaeography, manuscript illumination and humanism in renaissance italy: studies in memory of a. c. de la mare

Albinia de la Mare (1932–2001), OBE, FBA, Professor of Palaeography at King's College London, was one of the last century's outstanding palaeographers and the world's leading authority on Italian Renaissance manuscripts. In November 2011 a conference was held at King's College and the Warburg Ins...

The scottish legendary

This study places the Scottish compilation of saints' legends within the hagiographic landscape of medieval Britain.

Masques of difference

Masques of difference' presents an annotated edition of four seventeenth-century entertainments written by Ben Jonson, which reflect the royal court’s self-representation as moral and just, in contrast to stylised images of chaotically (and exotically) 'othered' groups: Africans, the Irish, witch...

The case of the initial letter

Tracing the dual alphabet from its intervention by Carolingian scribes to its rejection by modernist poets and the Bauhaus printers, Edwards shows how Charles Dickens and other nineteenth century writers used the distinction between upper and lower case letters in unconventional ways and in the i...

Early modern women's manuscript poetry

An anthology of previously unpublished and hard-to-find poetic material from early modern women who wrote in manuscript form. It features a broad and useful introduction examining the phenomenon of manuscript writing, and biographical notes preface the work of each author

Let me continue to speak the truth

In 1953, Freud biographer Ernest Jones revealed that the famous hysteric Anna O. was really Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936), the author, German-Jewish feminist, pioneering social worker, and activist. Elizabeth Loentz directs attention away from the young woman who arguably invented the talking cur...

Nelson glueck

Describes the many achievements of this extraordinary man whose life straddled two distinct Jewish worlds: he excavated remains of the ancient Nabataeans in Transjordan, described a biblical copper-mining industry at the shore of the Red Sea, and showed how the Negev could support a large populat...

The collected writings of warren cowgill

This volume contains all the published articles and reviews, plus a selection of previously unpublished material, by one of the 20th century's greatest linguists, the late Yale University professor Warren Cowgill (1929-1985). Cowgill's dazzling mastery of the entire Indo-European linguistic world...

Walking, writing and performance

This collection charts three projects by performers who generate autobiographical writing by walking through inspirational landscapes. Included in the book are the full texts of The Crab Walks and Crab Steps Aside by Phil Smith, Mourning Walk by Carl Lavery, and Tree by Deirdre Heddon, each accom...

Lucian of samosata vivus et redivivus

The afterlife of ovid

Ovid was the most influential and widely imitated of all classical Latin poets. This volume publishes papers delivered at a conference on the Reception of Ovid in March 2013, jointly organised by the Institute of Classical Studies and the Warburg Institute, University of London.

Persuasive language in cicero’s pro milone: a close reading and commentary

This innovative approach to Cicero's persuasive language analyses the style and structure of one of his important speeches in more detail than has ever been done before. It applies ideas from modern linguistics and explores the possibilities and limitations of quantitative analysis in the areas o...

Menander 'epitrepontes' (bics supplement 106)

The owl and the nightingale and the english poems of jesus college ms 29 (ii)

An edition and accompanying translation of this late C13th anthology of early Middle English verse.  In addition to the original text and Modern English translations, the edition contains a substantial scholarly introduction, notes and a substantial bibliography. The book is designed for use by t...

The secret of secrets: the east slavic version

The Secret of Secrets, purportedly the advice of Aristotle to Alexander the Great on all the knowledge needed by a great king, has been translated into many languages from its original Arabic. The Hebrew version was translated into a variety of East Slavic, probably in Kiev before 1483. This idio...

The oxyrhynchus papyri lxxxi

GRM 102 features first-time publications of Pauline literature fragments (Ephesians, 1 Timothy, Hymn of the Cross) from Oxyrhynchus, along with parts of the Sesonchosis novel, Theognis, Polybius, and the incipits of Euripides' lost Dictys and Danae.

Classics in practice. studies in the history of scholarship (bics supplement 128)

Dialogues with the past: classical reception theory and practice – volume 1 (bics supplement 126)

The complete harley 2253 manuscript, volume 1

British Library MS Harley 2253 is one of the most important literary works to survive from the English medieval era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, its secular love lyrics comprise an unrivaled collection. Intermingled with them are contemporary political songs as well as delicate lyrics desi...

Marathon – 2,500 years. proceedings of the marathon conference 2010

The victory of the Greeks at Marathon is often seen as the finest hour of the Athenian army, one that would be commemorated in art and literature for centuries to come. Published as a result of a conference marking 2,500 years since the battle of Marathon, this volume includes twenty-one papers t...

Homer at the gennadius library

Diplomat and bibliophile Joannes Gennadius donated his personal library, including some 6,000 editions of Classical Greek authors, to the American School of Classical Studies. This book showcases 39 treasures from this collection, reconstructing the Homeric universe from Gennadius's perspective a...

Bestsellers in nineteenth-century america

Bestsellers in Nineteenth Century America seeks to produce for students novels, poems and other printed material that sold extremely well when they first appeared in the United States.

Flesh and spirit

Ten little-known and under-studied works by seventeenth-century women (edited from manuscript and print) that explore the relationship between spiritual and physical health in the period

Anthony munday and civic culture

This in-depth study of the important but neglected writer Anthony Munday fills a long-standing gap in our knowledge and understanding of London and its culture in the early modern period. It will be of interest to historians, literary scholars and cultural geographers.

Confabulationes tironum litterariorum (cologne, 1525)

Confabulationes tironum litterariorum is one of the liveliest pedagogical works of the sixteenth century and a vivid and valuable cultural document of life in the early modern metropolis of Cologne.

Adam smith's wealth of nations

In order to understand the impact of Smith's text across the academic disciplines, this volume brings together leading scholars from fields of economics, politics, history, sociology and literature. Each essay offers a different reading of Wealth of Nations and its legacy.