This is the complete listing of all 293 Legenda titles, published or forthcoming, in any of its series.
Forthcoming 2014
Forthcoming November 2013
Language and Social Structure in Urban France Photobiography: Photographic Self-Writing in Proust, Guibert, Ernaux, Macé Selected Essays of Malcolm Bowie I: Dreams of Knowledge Selected Essays of Malcolm Bowie II: Song Man A Sight for Sore Eyes: The Surrealist Visuality of Jose Maria Hinojosa Leopardi’s Nymphs: Grace, Melancholy, and the Uncanny Echo’s Voice: The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and Renaude |
Forthcoming August 2013
Forthcoming June 2013
Taboo: Corporeal Secrets in Nineteenth-Century France Sebald’s Bachelors: Queer Resistance and the Unconforming Life Goethe’s Visual World Prometheus in the Nineteenth Century: From Myth to Symbol |
Forthcoming May 2013
Stendhal’s Less-Loved Heroines: Fiction, Freedom, and the Female Method and Variation: Narrative in Early Modern French Thought Dante and Epicurus: A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual Fulfilment Edoardo Sanguineti: Literature, Ideology and the Avant-Garde The Realist Author and Sympathetic Imagination |
Published March 2013
Chicago of the Balkans: Budapest in Hungarian Literature 1900-1939 Form and Feeling in Modern Literature: Essays in Honour of Barbara Hardy Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr Transformative Change in Western Thought: A History of Metamorphosis from Homer to Hollywood |
Published February 2013
Dissonance in the Republic of Letters: The Querelle des Gluckistes et des Piccinnistes French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War Renaissance Keywords Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile |
Published January 2013
Childhood as Memory, Myth and Metaphor: Proust, Beckett, and Bourgeois Dream Cities: Utopia and Prose by Poets in Nineteenth-Century France Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics Furetière’s Roman bourgeois and the Problem of Exchange: Titular Economies |
Published October 2012
Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution Octavio Paz and T. S. Eliot: Modern Poetry and the Translation of Influence Translating the Perception of Text: Literary Translation and Phenomenology Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini The Livres-Souvenirs of Colette: Genre and the Telling of Time |
Published 1 June 2012
Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages Proust, the One, and the Many: Identity and Difference in A la recherche du temps perdu Women, Genre and Circumstance: Essays in Memory of Elizabeth Fallaize Spanish Practices: Literature, Cinema, Television Cinema and Contact: The Withdrawal of Touch in Nancy, Bresson, Duras and Denis Maryse Condé and the Space of Literature Translating Sholem Aleichem: History, Politics and Art |
Published 30 January 2012
Pessoa in an Intertextual Web: Influence and Innovation Regarding Lost Time: Photography, Identity, and Affect in Proust, Benjamin, and Barthes Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature: Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda Remembering Aldo Moro: The Cultural Legacy of the 1978 Kidnapping and Murder The Subversive Poetics of Alfred Jarry: Ubusing Culture in the Almanachs du Père Ubu |
Published 29 August 2011
Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism German Women’s Writing of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Future Directions in Feminist Criticism Mediterranean Travels: Writing Self and Other from the Ancient World to Contemporary Society Proust Writing Photography: Fixing the Fugitive in À la recherche du temps perdu |
Published 6 July 2011
Examining Whiteness: Reading Clarice Lispector through Bessie Head and Toni Morrison Gender, Nation and the Formation of the Twentieth-Century Mexican Literary Canon Saturn’s Moons: W. G. Sebald — A Handbook Textual Wanderings: The Theory and Practice of Narrative Digression The Truth of Realism: A Reassessment of the German Novel 1830-1900 The Printed Media in Fin-de-siècle Italy: Publishers, Writers, and Readers |
Published 11 May 2011
English Responses to French Poetry 1880-1940: Translation and Mediation Victor Hugo, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Liability of Liberty Ugo Foscolo and English Culture Syntactic Borrowing in Contemporary French: A Linguistic Analysis of News Translation The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare |
Published 28 March 2011
A Captive of the Dawn: The Life and Work of Peretz Markish (1895-1952) Post-War Jewish Women’s Writing in French Reading Games in the Greek Novel Alienation and Theatricality: Diderot after Brecht |
Published 11 February 2011
Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures Jacques Derrida and the Institution of French Philosophy The Libertine’s Nemesis: The Prude in Clarissa and the roman libertin The Picture as Spectre in Diderot, Proust, and Deleuze Portuguese Modernisms: Multiple Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Arts Borges and Joyce: An Infinite Conversation |
Published 6 September 2010
Dante’s Plurilingualism: Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity Re-Contextualising East Central European History: Nation, Culture and Minority Groups Unbinding Medea: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Classical Myth from Antiquity to the 21st Century Uncharted Depths: Descent Narratives in English and French Children’s Literature Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women’s Writing and Activism Blake, Lavater and Physiognomy |
Published 26 April 2010
Dante the Lyric and Ethical Poet: Dante lirico e etico Force from Nietzsche to Derrida Machado de Assis’s Philosopher or Dog?: From Serial to Book Form Sex in Imagined Spaces: Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch Dreams of Lovers and Lies of Poets: Poetry, Knowledge, and Desire in the Roman de la Rose Turning into Sterne: Viktor Shklovskii and Literary Reception Yeats and Pessoa: Parallel Poetic Styles |
Published 12 April 2010
Published February 2010
Decolonizing Modernism: James Joyce and the Development of Spanish American Fiction Ismail Kadare: The Writer and the Dictatorship 1957-1990 Zola, The Body Modern: Pressures and Prospects of Representation Personal Effects: Reading the Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff |
Published July 2009
Emile Zola and the Artistry of Adaptation Sensibility, Reading and Illustration: Spectacles and Signs in Graffigny, Marivaux and Rousseau Imagining Terrorism: The Rhetoric and Representation of Political Violence in Italy 1969-2009 Boccaccio and the Book: Production and Reading in Italy 1340-1520 The Syllables of Time: Proust and the History of Reading |
Published June 2009
A Cultural Citizen of the World: Sigmund Freud’s Knowledge and Use of British and American Writings The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante’s Aracoeli Retrospectives: Essays in Literature, Poetics and Cultural History by Terence Cave Wilhelm Raabe: Global Themes — International Perspectives Imagining Jewish Art: Encounters with the Masters in Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj |
Published January 2009
Adrian Stokes: An Architectonic Eye The Cervantean Heritage: Reception and Influence of Cervantes in Britain John Ruskin’s Correspondence with Joan Severn: Sense and Nonsense Letters Pre-Histories and Afterlives: Studies in Critical Method The Strange M. Proust Henry James and the Second Empire Platonic Coleridge |
Published November 2008
Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance: French Love Lyric and Natural-Philosophical Poetry The Near and Distant God: Poetry, Idealism and Religious Thought from Hölderlin to Eliot Strands of Utopia: Spaces of Poetic Work in Twentieth-Century France Moving Scenes: The Aesthetics of German Travel Writing on England 1783-1830 A New History of English Metre Yiddish in the Cold War |
Published May 2008
Laughter and Narrative in the Later Middle Ages: German Comic Tales c. 1350-1525 Proust and Joyce in Dialogue Exotic Subversions in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction |
Published December 2007
In(ter)discipline: New Languages for Criticism Making the Personal Political: Dutch Women Writers 1919-1970 Poetry and the Realm of the Public Intellectual: The Alternative Destinies of Gabriela Mistral, Cecília Meireles, and Rosario Castellanos Balzac and the Model of Painting: Artist Stories in La Comédie humaine |
Published November 2007
Consuming Autobiographies: Reading and Writing the Self in Post-War France Literary Scholarship in Late Imperial Russia: Rituals of Academic Institutionalization Théophile Gautier, Orator to the Artists: Art Journalism of the Second Republic Il teatro di Eduardo De Filippo: La crisi della famiglia patriarcale Biography in Early Modern France 1540-1630: Forms and Functions |
Published August 2007
After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds, and Frogs Contemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the Fantastic: The Creation of Literary Space Men of their Words: The Poetics of Masculinity in George Sand’s Fiction Regressive Fictions: Graffigny, Rousseau, Bernardin France/China: Intercultural Imaginings David Bergelson: From Modernism to Socialist Realism — Proceedings of the 6th Mendel Friedman Conference |
Published July 2007
The Burgtheater and Austrian Identity: Theatre and Cultural Politics in Vienna, 1918-38 From Art Nouveau to Surrealism: Belgian Modernity in the Making Gypsies and Orientalism in German Literature and Anthropology of the Long Nineteenth Century Negotiating Sainthood: Distinction, Cursilería and Saintliness in Spanish Novels Wanderers Across Language: Exile in Irish and Polish Literature of the Twentieth Century The French Language and Questions of Identity |
Published February 2007
Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy — A Festschrift for John Woodhouse Identity and Transformation in the Plays of Alexis Piron Image, Eye and Art in Calvino: Writing Visibility Journeys of Remembrance: Memories of the Second World War in French and German Literature, 1960-1980 Thinking with Shakespeare: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays Singing Poets: Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece |
Published December 2006
Bakhtin between East and West: Cross-Cultural Transmission Sublime Worlds: Early Modern French Literature Towards a New Material Aesthetics: Bakhtin, Genre and the Fates of Literary Theory Sweet Thunder: Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy |
Published September 2006
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: A Life of Culture Defective Inspectors: Crime Fiction Pastiche in Late-Twentieth-Century French Literature Phrase and Subject: Studies in Literature and Music Rilke’s Poetics of Becoming Pastoral Drama in Early Modern Italy: The Making of a New Genre |
Published May 2006
The Extreme In-Between: Jean Paulhan’s Place in the Twentieth Century From Florence to the Heavenly City: The Poetry of Citizenship in Dante Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture Poisoned Words: Slander and Satire in Early Modern France Dilettantism and its Values: From Weimar Classicism to the fin de siècle The Fantastic in France and Russia in the Nineteenth Century: In Pursuit of Hesitation Redefining Regional French: Koinéization and Dialect Levelling in Northern France |
Published January 2006
Modernist Song: The Poetry of Tristan Tzara Spanish Romanticism and the Uses of History: Ideology and the Historical Imagination Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s Selfless Cinema?: Ethics and French Documentary Rethinking Languages in Contact: The Case of Italian |
Published September 2005
Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-Century Italy The Object and the Cause in the Vulgate Cycle Women in Russian Literature after Glasnost: Female Alternatives Oral Narration in Modern French: A Linguistic Analysis of Temporal Patterns The Anatomy of Laughter The Yiddish Presence in European Literature: Inspiration and Interaction — Selected Papers arising from the Fourth and Fifth International Mendel Friedman Conference |
Published February 2005
Authorial Echoes: Textuality and Self-Plagiarism in the Narrative of Luigi Pirandello England and the Avignon Popes: The Practice of Diplomacy in Late Medieval Europe The Feminine in the Prose of Andrey Platonov Reinventing Community: Identity and Difference in Late Twentieth-Century Philosophy and Literature in French A Taste for the Negative: Beckett and Nihilism Teresa of Avila’s Autobiography: Authority, Power and the Self in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Spain Two Old French Satires on the Power of the Keys: L’Escommeniement au lecheor and Le Pardon de foutre |
Published 2004
Science and Literature in Italian Culture: From Dante to Calvino Alter Ego: Critical Writings of Michel Leiris Naturalism Redressed: Identity and Clothing in the Novels of Emile Zola Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe: From Local History to the Global Individual |
Published 2003
Published 2002
Published 2001
Conceptions of the Absurd: From Surrealism to Chestov’s and Fondane’s Existential Thought All Puns Intended: The Verbal Creation of Jean-Pierre Brisset Treny: The Laments of Kochanowski Le Partage de la Parole Diderot and the Body Eugenio Montale: The Poetry of the Later Years Yiddish and the Left: Papers of the Third Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish Experiment and Metaphysics: Towards a Resolution of the Cosmological Antinomies |
Published 2000
Published 1999
Published 1998
The Epic Rhetoric of Tasso: Theory and Practice Processes of Literary Creation: Flaubert and Proust Stéphane Mallarmé. Correspondance: compléments et suppléments Proust: Questions d’identité Hölderlin and the Dynamics of Translation |
Published 1997
Breeches and Metaphysics: Thackeray’s German Discourse Classical Rhetoric and the German Poet: 1620 to the Present — A Study of Opitz, Bürger and Eichendorff |
Published 1996
Baudelaire: Individualism, Dandyism and the Philosophy of History Privileged Anonymity: The Writings of Madame de Lafayette |