Literary studies: general books

Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse...  Read More >>

This book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture...  Read More >>

The first study of creative and cultural afterlives of Gulliver’s Travels produced over the past 3 centuries that...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging critical survey of British fiction of the 1960s, from J.G. Ballard and Angela Carter to A.S. Byatt,...  Read More >>

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Bringing together book historians, textual editors, and new media theorists, this is an engaging and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

This volume offers a philosophical and literary exploration of Dostoevsky’s humanism, with a particular focus on...  Read More >>

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Diamela Eltit’s recent novels, highlighting how her experimental...  Read More >>

A complete introduction to the comics of Lynda Barry, this book maps her historical and biographical contexts, key...  Read More >>

Literatursoziologische Fragen sind seit einiger Zeit wieder ins Blickfeld der germanistischen Forschung gerückt,...  Read More >>

This book is the first sustained analysis of travel narratives from one of the most important US writers of the...  Read More >>

Drawing on new research, this wide-ranging book includes chapters by both scholars and performers. It gives proper...  Read More >>

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

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A long-overdue reappraisal of a groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social norms...  Read More >>

Examining three of the most influential writers of the modern fantasy tradition, this book looks at how they engage...  Read More >>

A complete introduction to the comics of Lynda Barry, this book maps her historical and biographical contexts, key...  Read More >>

The decolonial knowledges, imaginations, and praxes of migrant and refugee ecopoetics  Read More >>

The first study of creative and cultural afterlives of Gulliver’s Travels produced over the past 3 centuries that...  Read More >>

Focusing on the international circulation of culture and ideas by women in the early modern period through the long...  Read More >>

Professors, high school teachers, novelists, anti-censorship advocates, and librarians confront and examine the...  Read More >>

A scholarly consideration of Akínwùmí Ìsòlá and his anthology, Àfàìmò Àti Àwon Àròfò Mìíràn, via the analysis of...  Read More >>

In this first-ever account of the broadsheet ballads sold outside playhouses, Tiffany Stern reveals how ballads...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1963, this is a study of the greatness of Dante, Michelangelo and Milton, and of the differences...  Read More >>