Books are written to entertain and to inform, and during the Enlightenment, accounts of other worlds became popular as trade routes, scientific and le…

Exploring Text and Emotions investigates the functions, values and effects of emotions in literature and the arts, fostering the affective turn in tex…

Literature and Chemistry: Elective Affinities investigates literary and chemical encounters, from medieval alchemy to contemporary science fiction, in…

The articles in this second issue of Romantik: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms demonstrate the crucial role of emergent regionalism and national…

Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and other diseases related to modern lifestyles have spread with frightening speed all over the globe, a development that is…

Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto is a short stop-motion puppet film that has won awards at international film festivals in a number of countries and…

This inaugural issue of Romantik: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms contains seven articles that explore the connection between Romanticism and th…

Just like national identities, European identity may be viewed as an imagined community, constituted by different levels of inclusion and exclusion al…

The book presents new ways of thinking about the historical, epistemological and institutional role of literature. It aims at providing a theoreticall…

Robots, human hybrids and fictional monsters assembled from graveyard body parts by mad scientists have haunted literature for centuries. The frighten…

The war on terror, the globalization of politics and the emergence of international law have shaped our recent history and brought about new questions…

In a globalised age where people, goods and cultural products transcend the boundaries of geography and temporality as never before, it is only natura…