Literary studies: general books

Analyses more than a dozen pieces of Ernest Hemingway’s celebrated short fiction, with a focus on manuscripts and...  Read More >>

Confirms the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery, and sacrament to the spiritual and ethical outlook of the...  Read More >>

Since 2004, horror fiction writer Nicholas Grabowsky has reviewed books given to him from authors and their agents...  Read More >>

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe is a novel published in 1722. Born in prison to a convict mother, Moll navigates survival...  Read More >>

One of the most influential books in early American literature.  Read More >>

A wide-ranging display of a restless intellect, On the Margin: Notes and Essays gathers reflections on literature,...  Read More >>

A young drawing teacher falls for his pupil, but she's married off to a baronet. A sinister plot unfolds, involving...  Read More >>

Panalo is not a story invented from imagination. It is born from history-American history-that has been silenced,...  Read More >>

This book aims to enhance our intellectual understanding of the relationship between human beings and domestic animals,...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

Around 1700, England saw a heated public debate about the soul's immortality. Two unlikely figures--a lawyer and...  Read More >>

The 1810s are often overlooked as a transitional time between Romantic and Victorian literature and culture. The...  Read More >>

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

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

A landmark book-the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen...  Read More >>

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Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

In Queer Forms and Pronouns, author Lena Mattheis explores gender nonconformity (GNC) pronouns in Anglophone literature...  Read More >>