Literary studies: general books

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This book provides an analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their contributions...  Read More >>

This book explores representations of Amazonian Indigenous peoples in contemporary cultural texts.  Read More >>

This book explores the rich and varied mystical writings by and about medieval and early modern women across Western...  Read More >>

The go-to volume for anyone interested in epic literature in a global framework. Engaging with powerful stories...  Read More >>

Provides a first-hand account of the revolutionary politics and culture of 1970s Tehran.  Read More >>

ABOUT THE BOOK This book has an absolute lack of literary and academic value but it can be a diamond for those...  Read More >>

Develops a new approach to the politics of reproduction in literature and film.  Read More >>

A scholarly edition of William Barnes's Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect as published in the Dorset County...  Read More >>

Situates the works, legend and reception of the Renaissance poet and politician John Milton within the network of...  Read More >>

Studies literary and cinematic representations of sex work in Cambodia and Vietnam to rethink claims about the 'truth'...  Read More >>

A queer, postcolonial reading of twentieth-century Irish women's writing.  Read More >>

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

This volume in offers a definitive account of newspaper and periodical press activity across Britain and Ireland...  Read More >>

A remarkable collection of Lyn Hejinian's previously uncollected early poems from 1963 to 1983  Read More >>

Offers a new understanding of doubt in Montaigne's Essais and early modern intellectual culture  Read More >>

Recovers a forgotten and short-lived form of American fiction: the midcentury minor novel  Read More >>

Examines the work and reception of the Arab emigre writer Gibran...  Read More >>

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

Originally published in 1937, this anthology of humorous poems was created for the younger reader as a supplement...  Read More >>

Victorian Women's Travel Narratives and the Female-Capitalist Gaze argues that female travellers both informed and...  Read More >>

This book explores J. R. R. Tolkien’s unique and warm relationship to the Kalevala, a poem usually hailed as the...  Read More >>

Don Quixote’s madly ideal fiction is as relevant as ever in our “post-truth” era of virtual reality. Classic Christian...  Read More >>

Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>