Literary studies: general books

A landmark book-the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen...  Read More >>

In Queer Forms and Pronouns, author Lena Mattheis explores gender nonconformity (GNC) pronouns in Anglophone literature...  Read More >>

Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  Read More >>

Explores the stylistic and formal inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers from Britain, the United States,...  Read More >>

A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent...  Read More >>

Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening...  Read More >>

Analyzing the stylistic innovations most characteristic in pivotal works of literary realism, Prosaic Times shows...  Read More >>

Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between...  Read More >>

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This book provides innovative, up-to-date essays about Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. Recognising herself as a child...  Read More >>

Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  Read More >>

An exploration of nineteenth-century fiction written by descendants of Puritans and Pilgrims who intended to shape...  Read More >>

An exploration of variations on the theme of disappearance in contemporary women's writing  Read More >>

An exploration of the symbolic and philosophical roles of animals and hybrid creatures in Italian literature from...  Read More >>

Reframing debates surrounding long narratives to explore their impact, this book develops a critical vocabulary...  Read More >>

Explores various aspects of Arabic literature of migration published over the past three decades, focusing on the...  Read More >>

The Spanish Civil War (19361939) inspired an outpouring of responses among Canadian cultural producers. Yet, the...  Read More >>

This fourth volume of The Collected Works of Charles and Mary Lamb contains Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia,...  Read More >>

""Situates Chaucer's proverbs in their premodern cultural and intellectual contexts, arguing that Chaucer places...  Read More >>

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In Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan, Ariel Stilerman examines the transformation of classical Japanese...  Read More >>

Against an African, African American, and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement's backdrop, this book examines six African...  Read More >>