Literary studies: general books

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 >>

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Using samples taken from translations of Thucydides' influential History of the Peloponnesian War, the book argues...  Read More >>

‘Dazzling … one fine day, you open a book by an unknown writer, and a charge of pure talent blows you away’ La...  Read More >>

Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles...  Read More >>

Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles...  Read More >>

This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the...  Read More >>

Challenging the belief that medieval marriages were loveless, this book analyzes troubadour poetry and historical...  Read More >>

A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different...  Read More >>

This book analyzes contemporary Anglophone road narratives from a transcultural perspective. By bringing together...  Read More >>

This book is the first monograph devoted entirely to English dialect literature published between the sixteenth...  Read More >>

Cormorant is the natural and cultural history of a 'greedy' bird that is hated across the world and the object of...  Read More >>

Delving into his biological imagery, Tara Lee shows how Blake articulates radical views about spirituality and embodiment,...  Read More >>

This book delves into modernism, addressing its intricate relationship with the socio-political, philosophical,...  Read More >>

From Martha Washington to Jill Biden, Mars Attacks! to Scandal, and the Ladies’ Home Journal to Vogue this diverse...  Read More >>

This book targets a cluster of darknesses in a century that, in the wake of the Romantic euphoria for the nocturnal,...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1937, this anthology of humorous poems was created for the younger reader as a supplement...  Read More >>

With incisive purpose and clear-eyed nuance, West of the Ghetto showcases Jewish women writers' vital and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in the Odyssey to better understand...  Read More >>

Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

Considers relationships between modernist literature and literary criticism and argues that new modernist fiction...  Read More >>

Examines Scottish Romantic writers' shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead  Read More >>