Literary studies: general books

Explores how F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories reveal the full depth of his life and literary genius The Life...  Read More >>

Alone With Others provides an unparalleled intellectual-historical account of tact in modernist literature, film,...  Read More >>

For any reader curious about the wilder flights of fancy in eighteenth-century fiction and how they challenge colonial...  Read More >>

This is a second edition of the second volume of James Diggle's Oxford Classical Text of Euripides (1981). This...  Read More >>

This volume aims to explore and highlight aspects of the work of Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia. Topics include Sulpicia's...  Read More >>

Last Thoughts on Euripides is a companion to the second edition of volume II of the Oxford Classical Text edition...  Read More >>

How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civility Is civility merely a matter of reinforcing...  Read More >>

Taking a holistic approach to performances of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this multidisciplinary volume examines...  Read More >>

""Analyzes the environmental and social complexities of Izaak Walton's famous fishing treatise The Compleat Angler....  Read More >>

Examining Europe’s borders and their artistic representations as an archive both of state violence and of refusal,...  Read More >>

The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian...  Read More >>

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Entertaining Ambiguities explores the intersections of male-male sexual activities, subcultures, and coded language...  Read More >>

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This volume offers the first critical examination of how societal pressures compelling individuals towards parenthood...  Read More >>

Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination explores the centrality of familiar motifs associated with Gothic literature...  Read More >>

A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire...  Read More >>

Examining Europe’s borders and their artistic representations as an archive both of state violence and of refusal,...  Read More >>

Rethinks the relationship between architecture, literature and (in)visibility in the nineteenth-century city  Read More >>

Demonstrates how women's writing formed a crucial, if underappreciated, part of the history of sexuality in the...  Read More >>