Literary studies: general books

Beowulf's battles with Grendel and other foes embody courage, honor, and mortality in one of the oldest English...  Read More >>

This transdisciplinary study expands on theories of theatricality beyond performance studies and into poetry, media...  Read More >>

Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man (first published in 1926 and now re-edited after the discovery of an original...  Read More >>

Using a case study, this Element explores the criticism and creativity generated by eighteenth-century periodicals...  Read More >>

Drawing on the contributions of scholars working on Italian, French, English, Ottoman Turkish, and Japanese tale...  Read More >>

This volume explores the period when the European fairy tales conquered the world and shaped the global imagination...  Read More >>

An authoritative history of the earliest history of familiar folk tales and fairy tales from 3000BCE to the seventh...  Read More >>

Top medieval scholars explore tales told, translated, adapted and circulated from England to France and India to...  Read More >>

Drawing together contributions from an international range of scholars in history, literature, and cultural studies,...  Read More >>

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Historians and literary historians alike recognize David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829-1830)...  Read More >>

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This book presents a comprehensive collection of Piero Gobetti's writings in English, featuring over thirty articles...  Read More >>

This book explores how our physical experiences shape our understanding of health, disease, and illness, revealing...  Read More >>

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How do twenty-first-century Black satirists rewrite American ideas of race? This book plunges into the New Black...  Read More >>

The history of modern German drama begins with Lessing. However, he is regarded as an author who stands at a threshold,...  Read More >>

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""A notable editor's survey of the defining novels of the twentieth century""--  Read More >>

This one-of-a-kind cultural history explores caricature as a distinctively literary phenomenon, exploring how realism...  Read More >>

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Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide offers twenty-four case studies of mainstream and...  Read More >>

This volume is the very first annotated translation of all the titled stories included in the New ABC Book and in...  Read More >>