Literary studies: general books

Shows how representations of sapphic desire can subvert or sustain prevailing norms of gender, sexuality, and power...  Read More >>

Poor boy. Spy. Transgressor. Genious. In repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened into dull conventionality,...  Read More >>

Poor boy. Spy. Transgressor. Genious. In repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened into dull conventionality,...  Read More >>

Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition...  Read More >>

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The Mabinogion Setis a book about the most famous of medieval Welsh stories: the Four Branches of the Mabinogi....  Read More >>

Since the Middle Ages, bearshave mostfrequentlybeen seenas objects. For many centuries, Europeans regarded bears...  Read More >>

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

Christ's war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution...  Read More >>

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A provocative history of Disney's rise to cultural dominance, pulling skeletons from the corporate closet to decode...  Read More >>

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

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Using samples taken from translations of Thucydides' influential History of the Peloponnesian War, the book argues...  Read More >>

This book is the first monograph devoted entirely to English dialect literature published between the sixteenth...  Read More >>

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

‘Dazzling … one fine day, you open a book by an unknown writer, and a charge of pure talent blows you away’ La...  Read More >>

Recent news images of disastrous floods, fires and earthquakes vividly show we live in an unstable world. This book...  Read More >>

This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the...  Read More >>

Challenging the belief that medieval marriages were loveless, this book analyzes troubadour poetry and historical...  Read More >>

A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different...  Read More >>

Cormorant is the natural and cultural history of a 'greedy' bird that is hated across the world and the object of...  Read More >>

Delving into his biological imagery, Tara Lee shows how Blake articulates radical views about spirituality and embodiment,...  Read More >>