Mihoko Suzuki sheds light on a literary tradition that seemingly holds Helen of Troy and her descendants responsible for causing epic conflicts, while it appropriates the woman's perspective as a source of insight and poetic power.

This is Volume Two, the second of two volumes which describe techniques for the inspection of railroad track in the United States.

This text examines Byron's "lordship" - his singularity as a literary success and as one of the great British aristocratic poets.

Examining a wide range of published material including sonnets, pageants, prefaces, narrative poems, and title pages, Wendy Wall considers how the idea of authorship was shaped by the complex social controversies generated by publication ...

This text illuminates the ways in which the Queen and her subjects variously exploited or obfuscated this contradiction.

In this generously illustrated book, Maureen Quilligan provides a persuasive and penetrating interpretation of the Cité.

Elliott demonstrates how, in literature, America's first men of letters--Timothy Dwight, Joel Barlow, Philip Frenan, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and Charles Brockden Brown--sought to express the collective genius of the American people, ...

An evaluation of the importance of textual criticism in evaluation of important literary works, based on his study of important American literary works by authors such as James, Crane, and Mailer.

This book explores how Horace's poems construct the literary and social authority of their author.

John Skelton and Poetic Authority is the first book-length study of Skelton for almost twenty years, and the first to trace the roots of his poetic theory to his practice as a writer and translator.