Literary studies: general books

Rewrites the dominant narrative of the political work of lyric poetry in the United States since the nineteenth...  Read More >>

This volume engages with migrant deaths from a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective, raising questions...  Read More >>

Millennium transcends boundaries - between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the journal Millennium-Jahrbuch,...  Read More >>

The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Major Russian...  Read More >>

A material philological interpretation of the Cambridge Songs that provides a glimpse into the Latin lyric practice...  Read More >>

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A radical theorization of hyperglossia as a post-narrative condition, it explores how language, identity, and space...  Read More >>

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

This is the first English translation of the ancient scholia to the Iliad, the richest and most extensive collection...  Read More >>

The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of colonialism, expansion,...  Read More >>

Surveys the career of the influential Nobel-prize winning author Ernest Hemingway. Pays close attention to prose...  Read More >>

This book is for people who want to learn about mass incarceration. It covers all of the major figures in prison...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1988, this book brings brain science to...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature...  Read More >>

Cheney explores the literary trope of Elysium from ancient Greek poetry to the English Renaissance, with attention...  Read More >>

This book critically examines Whitehead’s genre-driven fiction as a powerful intervention in debates on race, memory,...  Read More >>

Hybrid Novels answers long-gestating questions in Contemporary Literary Studies about how to define post-postmodernism....  Read More >>

This book explores the representation of the first generations of women who studied at Oxford and Cambridge in popular...  Read More >>

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How did a Scorpion become a constellation? Who lifted the Archer into the sky? Which timeless tales gave birth to...  Read More >>

""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  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 >>

Demonstrates how women's writing formed a crucial, if underappreciated, part of the history of sexuality in the...  Read More >>