Literary studies: general books

Examines Scottish Romantic writers' shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead  Read More >>

Der schlesische Dichter Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635-1683) gehört neben Gryphius zu den bedeutendsten Autoren...  Read More >>

Das Berliner Projekt ist die erste historisch-kritische, umfassend kommentierte Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Daniel...  Read More >>

Eve de Charles Peguy. Ecrivain, poete et essayiste francais (1873-1914).  Read More >>

Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils...  Read More >>

This book examines the engagement of Greek lyric poetry with the divine in the light of new scholarly approaches,...  Read More >>

This book is the first to study six versions of the Dharmaparīkṣā - a Jain narrative that ridicules Brahmanical...  Read More >>

The Routledge Introduction to Feminisms in Canadian Literature introduces readers to the shifting historical contexts,...  Read More >>

Getting Started as a Literary Translator is an essential guide for aspiring translators navigating the professional...  Read More >>

Offers a compelling new study of failure and neoliberalism in contemporary American literature.  Read More >>

Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature.  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

This compelling book offers a fresh and insightful contribution to the interrelated fields of book history and literary...  Read More >>

Examines the connections between J. M. Coetzee's work and Hispanic literatures and cultures, especially in the Southern...  Read More >>

This book explores the fiction of the French writer François Rabelais (d. 1553) and its engagement with the seemingly...  Read More >>

""Drawing on a range of authors that includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, Ali Smith, Tom McCarthy, Duncan...  Read More >>

An exploration into how the figure of the zombie uniquely articulates the societal changes prompted by the health,...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive look at the religious significance of this century's contemporary English literature, this...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and...  Read More >>

Mining unexplored discourses of pain in New England literary texts, this book shows how pain was central in shaping...  Read More >>

Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies...  Read More >>

Exploring 18th-century medicine's construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as ""hermaphrodites"",...  Read More >>

Presents original archival research on eight largely unknown émigré translators whose work during the Cold War actively...  Read More >>

Der hebräische Text von Jeremia verwendet unpassende oder symmetrische Elemente, um Wortspiele zu erzeugen, die...  Read More >>

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