Literary studies: general books

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 >>

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

This study of Voltairine de Cleyre's transnational anarchism focuses on her work as pedagogue and translator to...  Read More >>

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Delve into the profound spiritual journey of Elie Wiesel through this comprehensive study of his fiction. From the...  Read More >>

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This book offers the first critical edition and English translation of Vincenzo Figliucci’s Stanze sopra le stelle...  Read More >>

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

An examination of Spanglish, Portuñol, and Judeo-Spanish literatures that builds on sociolinguistic understandings...  Read More >>

Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US...  Read More >>

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence  Read More >>

In Irish Anthropocene, Malcolm Sen traces the ways in which contemporary Irish literature is deeply engaged with...  Read More >>

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change...  Read More >>

""In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of...  Read More >>