Literary studies: general books

Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

In Quest of a Cure explores the literary and medical cultures of European health resorts in the nineteenth and early...  Read More >>

New paperback edition - Sisters Jane and Cassandra Austen were inseparable and sought one anothers approval in all...  Read More >>

Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous...  Read More >>

Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

""In Critical Failures, Miyabi Goto examines the rise of hihyåo, a practice of critical reading, in Japan's Meiji...  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 >>

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This interdisciplinary volume asserts the ongoing and changing role of religion in Irish culture. Offering new perspectives...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

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

This book is a study of the impact of nineteenth-century popular literature on its contemporary society as well...  Read More >>

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

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

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

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

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