Literary studies: general books

Studies literary and cinematic representations of sex work in Cambodia and Vietnam to rethink claims about the 'truth'...  Read More >>

A queer, postcolonial reading of twentieth-century Irish women's writing.  Read More >>

A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London  Read More >>

This volume in offers a definitive account of newspaper and periodical press activity across Britain and Ireland...  Read More >>

A remarkable collection of Lyn Hejinian's previously uncollected early poems from 1963 to 1983  Read More >>

Offers a new understanding of doubt in Montaigne's Essais and early modern intellectual culture  Read More >>

Recovers a forgotten and short-lived form of American fiction: the midcentury minor novel  Read More >>

Examines the work and reception of the Arab emigre writer Gibran...  Read More >>

This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history...  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 >>

The twentieth-anniversary edition of the path-clearing study of Cherokee writing in English, with an emphatic refocus...  Read More >>

Victorian Women's Travel Narratives and the Female-Capitalist Gaze argues that female travellers both informed and...  Read More >>

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This book explores J. R. R. Tolkien’s unique and warm relationship to the Kalevala, a poem usually hailed as the...  Read More >>

Don Quixote’s madly ideal fiction is as relevant as ever in our “post-truth” era of virtual reality. Classic Christian...  Read More >>

Beowulf tells of a legendary hero who battles monstrous foes, exploring courage, honor, and mortality in one of...  Read More >>

Refocuses Sylvia Plath's affiliations with 'the occult' on the legacies of the early modern witch trials. Drawing...  Read More >>

This contextual guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra highlights the ways in which the play was shaped by...  Read More >>

Brings together researchers from across the world to explore the creation, effect, craft, and effect of a feeling...  Read More >>

Imagines great artificial fiction that represents the world in creatively nonhuman ways while challenging how we...  Read More >>

In a world of religious rivalries and state collapse, how did the looming spectre of the barbarian show what it...  Read More >>

Examines gardens, gardening and horticulture in the work of Virginia Woolf through a cultural and historical lens....  Read More >>

Explores the depiction and treatment of inanimate matter in James Joyce's oeuvre.  Read More >>