This book treats Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as a work of imaginative literature, and app...

This book treats Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as a work of imaginative literature, and app...

Challenging the view that the fifteenth century was the 'Drab Age' of English literary history, S...

This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and ...

This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and ...

This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language orig...

This essential new text provides a comprehensive, modern account of how the English language orig...

Why is there such a striking difference between English spelling and English pronunciation? How d...

Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. Children's Litera...

A masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem.

Seth Lerer explores our relationship to the literary past in an age marked by historical self-con...

'The lasting impact of this volume will be found less in historicizing Auerbach as a literary fig...