Literary studies: general books

Provides a description of every extant manuscript and pre-1500 edition of Chaucer's best-known, yet unfinished work....  Read More >>

Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media tells a new story of how nineteenth-century evangelicals...  Read More >>

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor...  Read More >>

Part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe, this volume presents the first fully annotated edition...  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

The essays in Mezukak Shivatayim pay tribute to Bernard Septimus’s writing and teaching, covering rabbinic culture,...  Read More >>

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

Explores typographic display and experimentation in printed play-texts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries...  Read More >>

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This book is the perfect starting point for those who want to read their way through New Orleans, for it orchestrates...  Read More >>

An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and proliferates...  Read More >>

This commentary offers a close reading of one of the most famous ancient texts, Herodotus' Histories. It focuses...  Read More >>

Demonstrates the formative influence of Arab nationalist thought on Arabic literature since decolonization. It is...  Read More >>

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This book will appeal to scholars in literary studies and the history and philosophy of science, offering a new...  Read More >>

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This gripping history offers a unique understanding of the pervasive influence of nationalism in both politics and...  Read More >>

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Through an in-depth analysis of wartime essays and literary works, Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean...  Read More >>

An interrogation of the poetry of Mazisi Kunene that places his work in the context of African literature and the...  Read More >>

An examination of alternate imaginaries of ‘the global’ in post-millennium anglophone African literature and the...  Read More >>

The first text, translation and commentary of an unpublished 18th-century Latin didactic poem about the Brazilian...  Read More >>

Ancient philosophers developed a rich toolbox to better reach, teach, and affect their addressees or, indeed, practitioners,...  Read More >>

From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience...  Read More >>