Literary studies: general books

Widow City investigates the ever-evolving role of the widow in medieval and early modern Italian literature, from...  Read More >>

Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Essays on teaching a major Portuguese writer The writings of Fernando Pessoa, one of Portugal's most renowned authors,...  Read More >>

Essays on how to teach one of the most important issues of our time People migrate to seek opportunities, to unite...  Read More >>

Gertrude Stein and Laura Riding enjoyed a fascinating if brief three-year friendship via correspondence between...  Read More >>

Shows how legal and literary innovations together reshape property law in the postcolonial world.  Read More >>

Hemingway's Attic offers a fresh perspective on Ernest Hemingway's life in Cuba from 1950 to 1952, shining a new...  Read More >>

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At its core, geopoetics proposes that a connection between language and geology has become a significant development...  Read More >>

Julia Rensing examines how writers and artists from Namibia and South Africa navigate archival silences, omissions,...  Read More >>

A history of political satire in English literature from its Roman foundations to the present day Satire is a...  Read More >>

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Establishes Elizabeth von Arnim as an important figure in literary modernism.  Read More >>

The first English translation of Nigaristan: a major work of Persian literature.  Read More >>

Examines the use of Islamic referents and themes in literary writings by European authors.  Read More >>

Analyses the pervasive use of early American themes in contemporary culture, including literature, television series,...  Read More >>

The book attempts to configure the distinctive and enduring reflective ethos of Sanskrit traditions – an ethos which...  Read More >>

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The Routledge Introduction to English Canadian Literature and Digital Humanities is a guide to the debates, concepts,...  Read More >>

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

This book presents a fresh perspective on translation, exploring it as a complex process of cultural exchange involving...  Read More >>

National Socialist Cultural Diplomacy provides the first comprehensive account of the German-Nordic Writers’ House....  Read More >>

The idea of toxic masculinity might feel like a very modern, even twenty-first-century notion, but similar concerns...  Read More >>

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Essays on teaching a major Portuguese writer The writings of Fernando Pessoa, one of Portugal's most renowned authors,...  Read More >>