Literary studies: general books

This is the first book to cover the evolution and scope of Aldous Huxley’s socio-political ideas in a concise and...  Read More >>

Organized thematically, the chapters compare these authors’ novels in relation to the dehumanised body, bodies of...  Read More >>

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This book encounters the figure of the royal woman in the early modern period and explores how she enables and complicates...  Read More >>

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This book provides a brief scholarly introduction to A Game of Thrones, the first volume of George R. R. Martin's...  Read More >>

This open access book examines how Indigenous authors from the Soviet North reflect the impact of Soviet settler...  Read More >>

This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout...  Read More >>

This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval...  Read More >>

Predramatic Theatre offers a fresh, innovative account of the drama of the period prior to the building of the professional...  Read More >>

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From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience...  Read More >>

R. L. Stevenson’s life and writing, reflecting a restless mind in a global age.  Read More >>

While comics published in twentieth-century China have enjoyed extensive coverage, this volume showcases recent...  Read More >>

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Analyses how the political career of Sir Thomas Overbury exposes the changing systems of power at the English court...  Read More >>

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Explores the relationship between radical poetry and radical politics from the formation of the welfare state to...  Read More >>

Demonstrates how African literature grapples with the enforced optimism of US empire that circulates in postcolonial...  Read More >>

The first critical edition of Harryette Mullen's remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-day  Read More >>

A critically sophisticated yet highly readable exploration of Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer.  Read More >>

Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on the multifaceted meaning of wind and its various attributions. Wind is certainly more than...  Read More >>