Product Description: Although Chaucer is typically labeled as the "Father of English Literature," evidence shows that his work appealed to Europe and specifically European women. Rereading the Canterbury Tales , Thomas argues that Chaucer imagined Anne of Bohemia, wife of famed Richard II, as an ideal reader, an aspect that came to greatly affect his writing...read more

Product Description: This book sheds new light on 'civil antisemitism' in twentieth-century Britain, a crucial and critically neglected strand of anti-Jewish rhetoric shaped by longstanding traditions of etiquette and civility. Focusing on the years prior to World War II, Trubowitz shows how civil antisemitism was essential both to the dissemination of proto-fascist political and literary discourses, and to structural and stylistic practices within literary modernism...read more

Product Description: Blood Will Tell explores the ways in which writers, thinkers, and politicians used blood and vampire-related imagery to express social and cultural anxieties in the decades leading up to the First World War. Covering a wide variety of topics, including science, citizenship, gender, and anti-Semitism, Robinson demonstrates the ways in which rhetoric tied to blood and vampires permeated political discourse and transcended the disparate cultures of Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, forming a cohesive political and cultural metaphor...read more