Literary studies: general books

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

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

A rethinking of the evolution of the British novel that departs from dominant narratives and argues for an importantly...  Read More >>

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

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

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Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and...  Read More >>

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

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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 >>

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

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

This book takes a literary geographical approach to the study of folklore, exploring the complex relationships between...  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 >>

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

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

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

An intriguing investigation of how aging, place, and care intersect in the newly emerging genre of the care home...  Read More >>

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