`Ik wens en begeer dat de trouweloze handelingen van mijn vader publiek en openbaar gemaakt zullen worden, desnoods na mijn dood.

Dit zijn de woorden van Elisabeth de Flines. Ze spreekt ze uit in 1715, als ze verwikkeld is in een jarenlange vete met haar vader. Het gaat daarbij om een grote erfenis, om standsverschil en om de liefde van haar leven. Wanneer Elisabeth, de dochter van een steenrijke Amsterdamse koopman, er vandoor gaat met de knecht van haar vader, is dat het begin van een verb...

A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that characterized theory through the 1960s and 70s, when it posed an unprecedented challenge to the literary establishment. Eagleton has added a new preface to this anniversary edition to address more recent developments in literary studies, including what he describes as "the growth of a kind of anti-theory", and the idea that literary theory has ...

The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon. Since F. N.

Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published in 1957, there has been a dramatic increase in Chaucer scholarship. This has not only enriched our understanding of Chaucer's art, but has also enabled scholars, working for the first time with all the source-material, to recreate Chaucer's authentic texts. For the third edition,...