Literary studies: general books

Academic discourse on eyes has focused overwhelmingly on their visual function. Weeping Eyes turns instead to their...  Read More >>

American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast situates American poetry within a world of global media to...  Read More >>

Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly...  Read More >>

Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly...  Read More >>

The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural...  Read More >>

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A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development...  Read More >>

Mary Shelley's The Last Man is a novel set in the aftermath of climate disaster and a war between Greece and Turkey...  Read More >>

The story of two missionary priests, travelling through the American Southwest in the aftermath of the Mexican American...  Read More >>

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

This definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics,...  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

The first collection to systematically combine the vibrant fields of memory and affect in early modern studies,...  Read More >>

Two centuries after Percy Shelley's death, his writings still resonate with pressing societal issues. This collection...  Read More >>

This book traces the origins of using sea journeys to treat mental illness, a practice recommended within the medical...  Read More >>

The most comprehensive and detailed history of Latin literature from the second to the seventh centuries, which...  Read More >>

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south—the far southern latitudes occupied by Australia,...  Read More >>

This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986...  Read More >>

This volume examines Catullus' invective and homoerotic verse and the carmina maiora or 'longer poems', alongside...  Read More >>

This book examines discriminations against horses in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century alongside...  Read More >>

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Can revolution unfold in chapters? Seriality has long shaped how we read, think, and act; Peter Hitchcock explores...  Read More >>

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