Literary studies: general books

In nineteenth-century France, medicine reigned as queen of the sciences. From Balzac to Gautier, through to Flaubert...  Read More >>

Under the July Monarchy, Fanny Tercy's work successfully moved towards two fashionable genres which she contributed...  Read More >>

The book deals with the phenomenon of animism as a philosophical proposal to understand historical formations of...  Read More >>

Set in seventeenth-century France, a secret from the past challenges the union between Iphis—raised as a boy—and...  Read More >>

Exploring the entangled roots of literature and botany – where symbolism and ecology intertwine  Read More >>

It uncovers the palpable and pleasing anxiety about the human body in the works of Henry Fuseli, William Blake,...  Read More >>

A new edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow, featuring a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories that take...  Read More >>

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Upending traditional Byron criticism to reveal a more relentlessly precise and skeptical poetic mind than ever previously...  Read More >>

This first comprehensive account of Daniel Defoe's Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain explores the content,...  Read More >>

In this book, Neil Ramsey examines the intellectual contexts of the period in which modern war writing first took...  Read More >>

Gathering ground-breaking essays by leading scholars, this collection forwards an innovative feminist theory of...  Read More >>

This book traces an unexpected journey to Latin America for South Asian literature in English. It shows how this...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. The theme for Volume 75 is 'Othello'. The...  Read More >>

Under the July Monarchy, Fanny Tercy's work successfully moved towards two fashionable genres which she contributed...  Read More >>

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Engagements with Children’s and Young Adult Literature offers an accessible guide to studying Children’s and Young...  Read More >>

By combining the chapter authors' expertise as literary and cultural critics with their own responses to novels,...  Read More >>

Identifies literature as a site of sonic invention and reconfiguration, contributing a range of terms, models, and...  Read More >>

Tells the story of how 19th-century American writers re-envisioned science and religion in the age of German naturalist-explorer...  Read More >>

Explores the afterlives of one Romantic poem – a poem meant to be sung – across time, cultures, media, and contexts,...  Read More >>

Using a radical and inclusive definition of the genre, this collection explores musicians' autobiographies as articulated...  Read More >>

The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus presents eighteen chapters surveying individual works and books by Tacitus....  Read More >>

Sean O'Casey is one of Ireland's best-known writers. His work has been praised by figures from G. Bernard Shaw to...  Read More >>

A systematic study of the texts written in honour of the saints of Cyprus during the Byzantine era. Reveals cultural...  Read More >>