Literary studies: general books

This edited volume brings together global perspectives on the works of Jia Pingwa (1952–), one of the most important...  Read More >>

This book seeks to break free from Eurocentric historical perspectives of medieval-era travel through Egypt and...  Read More >>

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This book offers a critical introduction to comparative literature. It reviews the origin and development of comparative...  Read More >>

This book seeks to break free from Eurocentric historical perspectives of medieval-era travel through Egypt and...  Read More >>

It scrutinises the production and transnational distribution of sexological knowledge at the turn of the century....  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary study offers a fresh perspective on Ali Smith’s fiction, exploring her unique stylistic choices...  Read More >>

This book offers a pioneering study of the national, transnational, and international dimensions of working-class...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on narrative engagement within the theory of storyworld possible selves, a framework for the...  Read More >>

Insights into the rich tradition of Latin American literature set in aquatic environments.  Read More >>

This book is about Shakespeare’s role in sustaining the antiblack paradigm of modernity. This work re-reads both...  Read More >>

While the multilingualism of the medieval world has been at the forefront of research agendas across medieval studies...  Read More >>

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book bridges literary studies and the history of medicine to offer a...  Read More >>

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Well-written and engaging, The Making of Modern Cynicism will appeal not only to readers in literary and cultural...  Read More >>

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was one of the leading figures in the development of the modernist short story and...  Read More >>

Contradicting common perception of them as mere footnotes in Tennyson's career, this book examines the influence...  Read More >>

""Analyses the rich global histories of 20th- and 21st-century politicized writing in order to provoke new debate...  Read More >>

The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th...  Read More >>

The term ""radical formalism"" refers to strategies aimed at defamiliarising and revitalising conventional modes...  Read More >>

This book offers a nuanced analysis of the ways in which Egyptian and British novels represent the Egyptian nationalist...  Read More >>

""In ancient Greek comedy, nothing is ever 'just a joke'. This book treats jokes with the seriousness they deserve,...  Read More >>

""Castration desire theorizes an alternative form of masculinity in global literature that is less egocentric and...  Read More >>

In this innovative re-casting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional investments in...  Read More >>

Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary...  Read More >>