Literary studies: general books

Through a detailed examination of a wide range of texts, this book reclaims Edith Wharton's writings from World...  Read More >>

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This book develops a new approach to readerly engagement with constellations of characters in the novel. It argues...  Read More >>

This book explores the process, aesthetics, and politics of literary self-translation and transmediation in the...  Read More >>

This collection of early work, college writing, newspaper pieces, and stories of life in Florida by Marjorie Kinnan...  Read More >>

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Brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, this title delves into Mark Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he...  Read More >>

""I've struck it!"" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. ""And I will give it away - to you. You will...  Read More >>

Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity....  Read More >>

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Examining the African American and white racial binary in contemporary multiracial literature, Molly Littlewood...  Read More >>

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Reconsiders major thinkers and works of German Idealism and their legacy for our own restless times.  Read More >>

The first English translation of Hölderlin's complete correspondence, with a full introduction and notes.  Read More >>

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A study in the literature of selfhood across time, this book analyzes how the Gnostics, the Romantics, Kierkegaard,...  Read More >>

This book examines the history of goblins from the Middle Ages to the present. It shows that goblins—whether interpreted...  Read More >>

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