Literary studies: general books

This edited volume is the first internationally available English translation of key lectures and essays delivered...  Read More >>

A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London  Read More >>

This volume in offers a definitive account of newspaper and periodical press activity across Britain and Ireland...  Read More >>

Comprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain...  Read More >>

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

Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain  Read More >>

Offers a new understanding of doubt in Montaigne's Essais and early modern intellectual culture  Read More >>

Recovers a forgotten and short-lived form of American fiction: the midcentury minor novel  Read More >>

Examines the work and reception of the Arab emigre writer Gibran...  Read More >>

This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history...  Read More >>

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about...  Read More >>

Imagines great artificial fiction that represents the world in creatively nonhuman ways while challenging how we...  Read More >>

Japanese writers' engagement with kanshi unveils a journey from the Meiji era's mastery of Literary Sinitic poetry...  Read More >>

Chekhov's fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to...  Read More >>

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

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and...  Read More >>

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Drawing on new research, this wide-ranging book includes chapters by both scholars and performers. It gives proper...  Read More >>

Showcasing the most exciting work currently being carried out on D. H. Lawrence, this magisterial collection serves...  Read More >>

""Contesting the binaries that still exist between modernist and First World War writing, this critical group study...  Read More >>

Presenting a new approach to Euripides’ plays, this book explores the playwright’s ancient tragedies in relation...  Read More >>

Situated between Europe and Asia, and surrounded by three seas, Turkey comprises a diverse environmental and cultural...  Read More >>

Exploring the poetic fictions of prominent French, feminist writer Hélène Cixous, this open access book highlights...  Read More >>