Literary studies: from c 1900 - books

""Adventure or Experience: Four Essays on Certain Writers and Readers of Novels"" is an insightful exploration into...  Read More >>

""Adventure or Experience: Four Essays on Certain Writers and Readers of Novels"" is an insightful exploration into...  Read More >>

Reframing debates surrounding long narratives to explore their impact, this book develops a critical vocabulary...  Read More >>

Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

In Quest of a Cure explores the literary and medical cultures of European health resorts in the nineteenth and early...  Read More >>

Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous...  Read More >>

Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary volume asserts the ongoing and changing role of religion in Irish culture. Offering new perspectives...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

This book is a study of the impact of nineteenth-century popular literature on its contemporary society as well...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Bringing together an historian of political thought and a literary scholar, this book offers a historically wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Demonstrates the formative influence of Arab nationalist thought on Arabic literature since decolonization. It is...  Read More >>

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This book will appeal to scholars in literary studies and the history and philosophy of science, offering a new...  Read More >>

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Through an in-depth analysis of wartime essays and literary works, Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean...  Read More >>

An interrogation of the poetry of Mazisi Kunene that places his work in the context of African literature and the...  Read More >>

An examination of alternate imaginaries of ‘the global’ in post-millennium anglophone African literature and the...  Read More >>

Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized...  Read More >>

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A remarkable collection of Lyn Hejinian's previously uncollected early poems from 1963 to 1983  Read More >>