Literary studies: general books

Originally published in 1992, Le Bel Inconnu edited and with an introduction by Karen Fresco, presents on facing...  Read More >>

In the aftermath of Bulgaria’s liberation from Ottoman rule, a cohort of young men and women found a home in the...  Read More >>

This book explores how monsters articulate questions about the sacred in nineteenth-century Irish Gothic literature....  Read More >>

Oscar Wilde's Paris explores Wilde's connection with the French capital from his rise to fame to his eventual exile...  Read More >>

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville...  Read More >>

Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947) recounts the life of a solitary composer, Adrian Leverkühn, whose personal and...  Read More >>

Book VII is a pivotal book in Herodotus' Histories. It brings together many of the work's themes and contains the...  Read More >>

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This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years 1897 to 1912,...  Read More >>

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing is the first dedicated study of British and Irish...  Read More >>

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

A cultural and social critique of early-twentieth-century America, addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class and...  Read More >>

Henry James was a leading commentator on the art of his time. Readers of this complete collection of his nonfictional...  Read More >>

Henry James is a highly readable commentator on the theatre and performance practices of his time. Readers of this...  Read More >>

This book shows how novels and films set in the near future can shed light both on our failures of imagination before...  Read More >>

This book reveals how modernist artists across Europe and the United States turned to trees and wooden materials...  Read More >>

This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first...  Read More >>

Book VII is a pivotal book in Herodotus' Histories. It brings together many of the work's themes and contains the...  Read More >>

Combining sound studies and contemporary philosophy, this study reveals the ethical potency of the sound of the...  Read More >>

Exploring Romantic-period works as open-ended collections of discrete book parts, prints, watercolours, manuscripts,...  Read More >>

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

A lively way into the works of beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, this book provides fresh understanding...  Read More >>

Examines Ovid’s Amores through a comics-based methodology to demonstrate how Latin elegy uses its segmented format...  Read More >>