Murals based upon Edmund Spenser's "Faerie queene" by Lee Woodward Zeigler, with a description of the scenes by Charles Grosvenor Osgood

Edmund Spenser's poetry remains an indispensable touchstone of English literary history. Yet for modern readers his deliberate use of archaic language and his allegorical ...

This chapter outlines some of the key features of Elizabethan Protestantism relevant for Spenser’s work and goes on to consider both their importance as themes in his poetry, and t...

Chapter 2 examines an antiquarian nostalgia for the monastic and Catholic past, equally characteristic of the aftermaths of the Reformation and the Gothic, which represents a loss ...

In 2002, World of Books Group was founded on an ethos to do good, protect the planet and support charities by enabling more goods to be reused. Since then, we've grown into to a gl...

In Chapter 1, the Reformation is presented as the paradigmatic site of Gothic escape: the evil monastery can be traced back to Wycliffe’s ‘Cain’s castles’ and the fictional abbey r...

This vibrant history of the former German Democratic Republic’s public murals reveals a barely known but visually and theoretically rich cultural legacy. In the early 199...

A superb new study of Jerry Lee Lewis that’s as intense and fast paced as the life of “The Killer” himself, from the height of fame to the bumpy road that followed. “The ...