Literary studies: general books

A collection of essays on Hellenistic poetry and the ancient novel presented to Susan A. Stephens on her retirement...  Read More >>

Agatha Christie is the author of over 80 books and the world's longest running play. This Very Short Introduction...  Read More >>

This compelling new work argues that appreciation of the Divine Comedy has been hindered by lack of understanding...  Read More >>

Comprising twenty-one essays by leading international scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive account of Gothic...  Read More >>

Comprising twenty three essays by leading international scholars, this book is a key reference work for anyone studying...  Read More >>

This Element argues that medieval texts conveyed the essence of expansionist mercantilism and colonialism, which...  Read More >>

This Element offers a full portrait of Suzanne Beckett, née Déchevaux-Dumesnil (1900–1989). It mentions the texts...  Read More >>

""When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor,...  Read More >>

The Literary Lifeline offers an interdisciplinary investigation into the phenomenon of reading for well-being. The...  Read More >>

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This volume offers a comprehensive account of the Gothic in Western civilisation, from the Gothic sacking of Rome...  Read More >>

This book examines the complicated place of animals in literary analysis and education and shows how an ethically...  Read More >>

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The Literary Lifeline offers an interdisciplinary investigation into the phenomenon of reading for well-being. The...  Read More >>

Reinvigorates modernist analysis of myth in Virginia Woolf's fiction by illuminating Woolf's use of parataxis to...  Read More >>

This Element argues that medieval texts conveyed the essence of expansionist mercantilism and colonialism, which...  Read More >>

Working-Class Women in Irish Literature and Theatre critically engages with works of theatre both by and about working-class...  Read More >>

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This collection of eight essays by world-renowned philosophers and literary critics thoroughly examines the philosophical...  Read More >>

This Element offers a full portrait of Suzanne Beckett, née Déchevaux-Dumesnil (1900–1989). It mentions the texts...  Read More >>

Belisarius & Antonina is a biography of an immensely powerful marriage in the time of Roman resurgence and expansion....  Read More >>

Unearths the cultural significance of medieval and early modern lists from Chaucer's and Spenser's epic catalogues...  Read More >>

Collecting in full for the first time the correspondence between Ezra Pound and members of Leo Frobenius' Forschungsinstitut...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive study of Rome's relationship with the kingdom and city of Pergamon (modern-day Bergama in...  Read More >>