Literary studies: general books

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 >>

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

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

Insightful essays explore a prolific writer’s vast work of novels, plays and journalism, addressing issues of feminism,...  Read More >>

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

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

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

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

This compelling book offers a fresh and insightful contribution to the interrelated fields of book history and literary...  Read More >>

The first book to focus on the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass and their impact on Black organizing A robust...  Read More >>

Offers a compelling new study of failure and neoliberalism in contemporary American literature.  Read More >>

Galicia as a Literary Idea explores the relationship of Jewish tradition and modernity in literary works by Joseph...  Read More >>

Reassesses Cartesian subjectivity as an important critical lens for the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries....  Read More >>

Examines the connections between J. M. Coetzee's work and Hispanic literatures and cultures, especially in the Southern...  Read More >>

Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature.  Read More >>

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

In this survey of foundational theory on James Joyce's Ulysses, seasoned Joyceans introduce the methodologies that...  Read More >>

Bringing together nineteen essays from leading specialists in poetics and American music, this collection offers...  Read More >>

The perfect gift for the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fan, The Complete Sherlock Holmes is an elegant edition boasting...  Read More >>