A Harvard English professor's intimate meditation on the pros and cons of reading in the digital age seeks to restore a traditional definition of literature, explaining how historical debates and modern interpretations reflect key cultural ...

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors.

The title of this collection, Profiling Shakespeare, is meant strongly in its double sense. These essays show the outline of a Shakespeare rather different from the man sought by biographers from his time to our own.

Rich in anecdote and insight, Vested Interests offers a provocative and entertaining view of our ongoing obsession with dressing up--and with the power of clothes.

Reading these essays is to experience the pleasure of watching a remarkable critic grapple with the curious and the everyday, and make both speak to the question between the quotation marks: 'Who are we now?'

The symptoms of culture are the anxieties that underlie modern life: the instability of gender roles, the mysteries of female sexuality, the enigma of authority, the desire for greatness in ourselves and our heroes.

Combining literary and historical tidbits with witty social insight, "Dog Love" explains everything from why we often admire presidential pets more than their owners to why our attachment to dogs is the ultimate expression of our humanity. ...

This collection of witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays addresses interdisciplinary topics that range widely from Shakespeare, to psychoanalysis, to the practice of higher education today.

In this witty and scrupulously researched book, Garber examines bisexuality through a variety of critical lenses--cultural, literal, and psychological.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.