Literary studies: general books

This is the first ever critical edition of Wyndham Lewis's Paleface. It reproduces, with corrections, the text first...  Read More >>

Newly available in paperback, this iconoclastic study draws on affect theory, the history of emotions, and new materialism...  Read More >>

This fascinating history explores the development of a distinctive national prose tradition in colonial Angola,...  Read More >>

Attends to the early modern stage as a platform for the creation and interrogation of knowledge and knowledge production,...  Read More >>

Examines the transformative power of repetition in contemporary poetic practices.  Read More >>

What kind of a playwright comes into being when an avant-garde poet moves on to write Christian popular theatre,...  Read More >>

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

This Element explores Tertullian, the first author to write Christian theology in Latin. It focuses on the primary...  Read More >>

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An investigation of the specific uses of the motif of melancholy in modern Kurdish novels  Read More >>

Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles...  Read More >>

An innovative teaching guide reinterprets an ancient epic by linking its Bronze Age roots to contemporary issues...  Read More >>

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A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London  Read More >>

This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history...  Read More >>

Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain  Read More >>

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Bringing together modern poetry’s aesthetic experimentation and modern philosophy’s attention to the problem of...  Read More >>

Situating itself against the transitional moment of first direct contact of English merchants with the Indian subcontinent,...  Read More >>

It can be argued that Anglo-Indian fiction is a criticism of the life of the English in India, and of Indians before...  Read More >>

This is the first work that examines the actions and conduct of both immortal and mortal female figures in the Odyssey,...  Read More >>

This book (1988) challenges widely held assumptions about Victorian culture and shows that its poetry was far more...  Read More >>

Bringing together diverse perspectives from authors situated in both the South and the Global North, this ground-breaking...  Read More >>