Literary studies: general books

Examining Europe’s borders and their artistic representations as an archive both of state violence and of refusal,...  Read More >>

Taking a holistic approach to performances of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this multidisciplinary volume examines...  Read More >>

Delve into the vibrant landscape of 19th-century English poetry with ""The belle of a season,"" a captivating work...  Read More >>

""The works of Thomas Middleton: Volume 2 of 5"" offers an indispensable collection from one of the Jacobean era's...  Read More >>

""The Little Review, January 1917 (Vol. 3, No. 8)"" offers an essential journey into the heart of 20th-century literature...  Read More >>

Step back into the vibrant literary world of the early 20th century with 'The Little Review, May, 1917 (Vol. 4,...  Read More >>

""The Little Review, September 1916 (Vol. 3, No. 6)"" offers a vital glimpse into the vibrant literary landscape...  Read More >>

Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literature  Read More >>

Uncovers how historical novels rewrite the history of the Korean War  Read More >>

Explores how espionage fiction captures the most significant political conflicts and crises of the last hundred...  Read More >>

Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing  Read More >>

Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  Read More >>

Provides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the...  Read More >>

Examines the scene of reading in modernism, psychoanalysis and popular novels from the early twentieth century  Read More >>

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic...  Read More >>

The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction...  Read More >>

Presents an image of Victorian life-especially womens' lives-that uniquely and surprisingly anticipates our own...  Read More >>

The first reference book on First World War newspapers and magazines from the home front to the front lines.  Read More >>

Refines our understanding of Virginia Woolf as a politically engaged writer  Read More >>

This series of ten volumes presents a decade-by-decade account of how literature developed in Britain throughout...  Read More >>

Extends the body of scholarship on Comic Gothic to cover contemporary texts, new media and texts from other cultures...  Read More >>

Entertaining Ambiguities explores the intersections of male-male sexual activities, subcultures, and coded language...  Read More >>

A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire...  Read More >>

Examining Europe’s borders and their artistic representations as an archive both of state violence and of refusal,...  Read More >>

Rethinks the relationship between architecture, literature and (in)visibility in the nineteenth-century city  Read More >>