Literary studies: general books

A collection of new translations of short stories by Bengali poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)....  Read More >>

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African provides an unequalled portrait of the everyday life of a Black...  Read More >>

The story behind what makes Beowulf such a remarkable work of art, and why it is of such cultural significance....  Read More >>

One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume – the first of its...  Read More >>

Medieval Icelandic Bodies in ""Tristram ok Ísodd"" examines the depiction of the bodies of the two main characters...  Read More >>

Within the five years before his premature death in 2001, W.G. Sebald made an astounding ascent into the canon of...  Read More >>

An edition, with translation and commentary, of the transatlantic Latin poetry of Christian Wedsted (1727-1757)....  Read More >>

The first modern editions and annotated English translations of two Latin texts important in literary history.  Read More >>

Inspired by the career of Judie Newman, a genuinely ground-breaking scholar in the fields of U.S. and postcolonial...  Read More >>

One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume – the first of its...  Read More >>

A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, tracing its life over the last century  Read More >>

This is the first new edition of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations in over forty years. Robert A. Kaster draws on an...  Read More >>

This is the first full-length study to explore how contemporary, Western manifestations of Sufism are represented...  Read More >>

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The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

This book charts the Hollywood studio system's genesis, international dominance, and self-understood demise by way...  Read More >>

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the...  Read More >>

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument...  Read More >>

This inspirational book is a delightful gift for readers and fans of Charlotte Bronte's novels.  Read More >>

This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals-writers, historians,...  Read More >>

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de S Nogueira examines the life and journalism of Maria Teresa de S Nogueira,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern...  Read More >>

This book examines the transnational dynamics that shape Latina affect narrative from the 1990s through the twenty-first...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking comparative study of the weird apocryphal hells found in the vernaculars of medieval Ireland, England,...  Read More >>