Literary studies: general books

This multifaceted volume will be of interest to students working on twentieth-century poetry, the short story, the...  Read More >>

Perhaps no great poet, in any language, has suffered more than Byron from being merely read about rather than actually...  Read More >>

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Edited and self-published by Bernadette Mayer and Vito Acconci from 1967 to 1969, 0 to 9 not only documented some...  Read More >>

A richly drawn biography of Jane Austen, from a beloved English novelist Elizabeth Jenkins  Read More >>

John Milton's Latin Defences are landmark texts in the history of English Civil War and Interregnum polemics. This...  Read More >>

Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction by Men: No Plans for the Future is the first comprehensive study of...  Read More >>

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Argues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an...  Read More >>

Examines the ambivalent, often critical relationship of the New York School poets to bureaucratic culture and the...  Read More >>

Aesthetic Impropriety analyzes vanguard legal actions and literary innovations to reveal contemporary reforms to...  Read More >>

An exacting reassessment of neurodiversity within activist and artistic communities, Autistic Dreaming illuminates...  Read More >>

Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in Renaissance Italy investigates the evolving role of the widow in medieval...  Read More >>

It examines selected authors over a short time period who consciously placed their works as minor, arguing that...  Read More >>

The book discusses the demarcation of secular and sacred territory in early modern English drama. It focuses primarily...  Read More >>

The Graphomaniac is a poetically parodic portrait of an anti-Pushkin, Dmitry Khostov, the worst versifier to emerge...  Read More >>

Inspired by Robert Macfarlane and curated by Jennie Orchard, an anthology of essays about the joys of giving books...  Read More >>

Recherche littéraire / Literary Research has for mission to inform comparative literature scholars worldwide of...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare in Tongues interrogates the popular conflation of “the language of Shakespeare” with English by examining...  Read More >>

Originally published posthumously in 1980, this book centres on 5 British poets – Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin,...  Read More >>

George Eliot thought of herself as a teacher, as did her contemporaries. Their view that her writing was a deliberate...  Read More >>

First published in 1923, the original blurb reads: “This series of studies by a distinguished neurologist and psychiatrist,...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1991, this elegantly written book offers new readers a useful approach to the work of Evelyn...  Read More >>

The invention of the locomotive changed landscapes, cityscapes, social relations, sensibilities prophesied by Hans...  Read More >>