Literary studies: general books

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Offers a panoramic view of New York City in the 1920s, uncovering hidden histories from within entertainment, politics,...  Read More >>

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as...  Read More >>

A creative and analytical study of important facets of classical Persian poetry.  Read More >>

Shows how the study of modern Arabic literature was transformed by Mustafa Badawi.  Read More >>

Explores developments in Arab autobiography over the last 40 years.  Read More >>

Explores the influences that triggered the Arabic awakening, the 'nahdah', from the 1700s onwards.  Read More >>

Studies a neglected area of postcolonial fiction, fostering a better understanding of Iraqi culture and society....  Read More >>

Provides a nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national'...  Read More >>

Explores the intricately crafted rhetorical strategies used by al-Jahiz in his letters.  Read More >>

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A collection of works by early modern men writing in women's voices. This anthology gives students and scholars...  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 >>

Argues that Shakespeare's plays are dramaturgically misogynist and that surface-level interventions cannot remediate...  Read More >>

Offers the first full-length study of Cicely Saunders' idea of 'total pain', providing a fresh perspective on the...  Read More >>

Leading scholars take stock of McCarthy's final novels, illuminating the arc of his career, influence, and legacy...  Read More >>

I Can't Believe I?m Old is a collection of essays by Janet Torge as she stumbles and is dragged into old age. She...  Read More >>

This book explores short fiction by migrant women writers in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2020, including...  Read More >>

Argues that Victorian literature uses traces of a lingering past to theorise time as non-progressive and discontinuous...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of the essential role Switzerland played in Charles Dickens's imagination  Read More >>

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