In romantic literature of the fourteenth and fifteen centuries, fainting wasn’t just for ladies.

Celebrated for his plays, Shakespeare actually opened his writing career with a derivative poem.

In addition to a New Wave hit, Nell Dunn's 1963 book about young women in a poor London neighborhood inspired a Ken Loach adaption that helped shift British attitudes toward abortion.

Writers have long plotted murder mysteries in gardens of all sorts. What makes these fertile grounds for detective fiction?

Viewing the genre as a means to spread modern knowledge, Chinese novelists have been writing science-fiction stories since at least 1902.

While Villa’s otherness created an opening for his work in the US, American critics ultimately held both his modernism and his nationality against him.

Despite being famous for his witty analyses of the American South, Twain was proudest of the historical fiction he wrote about France’s legendary martyr.

A fierce opponent of censorship, Gershon Legman helped legitimize the academic study of erotic folklore as manifested in jokes, limericks, and songs.

Between the medieval and modern world, the marks used to make writing more legible changed from “pointing” to punctuation.

Why the Old Norse gods disguised themselves as a bride and bridesmaid before visiting Thrymr, king of Jötunheima.