Literary studies: general books

This book (1971) critically investigates the main literary genres and styles of Old and Middle English, illustrated...  Read More >>

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

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure...  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 >>

In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the importance of trees both as allies in the fight against...  Read More >>

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Presents a collection of the Faroese ballads about the Völsung hero Sigurðr fáfnisbani, the pre-eminent dragon-slaying...  Read More >>

An exploration of how everyday Renaissance practices of folding, sending, archiving, and arranging manuscript poetry...  Read More >>

Explores how Ancien Régime writers theorized public communication through acoustic metaphors The salons, cafés,...  Read More >>

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

Studies literature's role in representing and addressing dis/trust in the digital world.  Read More >>

Reveals how animal rights and species identity are reimagined in literature of the late twentieth century.  Read More >>

Provides the first critical edition in English of Elvira Hernndez's exceptional poetry, from her early works to...  Read More >>

History mingles with romance in John Galt's only novel set in the English Middle Ages.  Read More >>

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Shows that form and materiality in early modern English literary texts must be understood together.  Read More >>

Telepoetics explores how telephony has shaped and been shaped by literature.  Read More >>

Essays and translations by modern-day scholars organised along the principles of the Arabic narrative tradition....  Read More >>

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

Considers relationships between modernist literature and literary criticism and argues that new modernist fiction...  Read More >>

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in the Odyssey to better understand...  Read More >>

These letters between Theodore Dreiser, pioneer of literary realism, and the actress and artist Kyra Markham (born...  Read More >>

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

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