Literary studies: general books

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. Emergent Voices is the first...  Read More >>

Embodiment, Aesthetics, and Ethics in Romantic Literature and Science makes an unprecedented intervention into debates...  Read More >>

Jacopo Passavanti is a complete English translation of Jacopo Passavanti's summa on penitence that explores sin,...  Read More >>

Covering literature, visual media and popular culture, this book explores how the Gothic is consistently used to...  Read More >>

A Salon-in-Exile explores the translation of the salon from France to England in the late-17th century via the first...  Read More >>

Examining a wide variety of poets from the last three decades of the 20th century to the present, from Asian, African,...  Read More >>

Uses case studies from 20th-century German literature and theory to explore the material, social, economic, and...  Read More >>

The book argues that Ian McDonald’s globalized science fiction functions as a complex, hybrid fusion of magic realism...  Read More >>

This book uncovers how knowledge was transmitted and transformed in 18th-century Britain, using digital tools to...  Read More >>

How mobility and its impediment serve as frameworks for expressions of political dissent in cultural production...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive study of the Goncourt brothers' etchings, including never-before published images of their...  Read More >>

A monograph on the rich and complex history of postcolonial literature from the Caucasus and Central Asia, examining...  Read More >>

Award-winning British playwright, composer and screenwriter Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage...  Read More >>

This book explores the preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound in interwar Britain. It contends that the extreme decibel...  Read More >>

A collection of essays engaging with digital scholarship and new technologies. Contributors to this volume engage...  Read More >>

It discusses the issues women writers are faced with when they try to combine their literary vocation with their...  Read More >>

Critical Approaches to Sjón: North of the Sun is the first English-language book-length study of the works of the...  Read More >>

Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929 focuses on fifty-three silent...  Read More >>

This book elucidates the work of 21st-century European thinkers to describe the event of art as an intuited correspondence...  Read More >>

Spanning the environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, this volume brings together utopian and...  Read More >>

This book uses literary examples makes the case for understanding law and the legal system through the lens of philosophical...  Read More >>

Based on first-hand historical materials, this book explores the various aspects of literary communication during...  Read More >>

Norman Maclean’s “A River Runs Through It”: The Search for Beauty is the first book-length study of Norman Maclean...  Read More >>

This volume maps the phenomenon of medievalism in Aotearoa, initially as an import by the early white settler society,...  Read More >>

This volume brings together scholars of History, Manuscript Studies, and Art and Architectural History to examine...  Read More >>