Literary studies: general books

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This open access book provides the first scholarly account of the role of hope and hopefulness from the perspective...  Read More >>

Der Reiz, die Potentiale, aber zugleich auch die Risiken der Hybridformate bestehen darin, dass die Grenzen zwischen...  Read More >>

It investigates representations of time in 21st century Anglo-American literature, focusing on innovative timeframes...  Read More >>

This book explores Fichte's theory of sensibility, focusing on its theoretical and practical significance. It offers...  Read More >>

An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic...  Read More >>

This book provides close historical, theological and cultural analyses of an important, but neglected, Late Antique...  Read More >>

An anthology of essays devoted to Slavic horror fiction assesses current trends in East/Central European horror...  Read More >>

Over the post-war decades, Italy's 'extroverted' cultural identity was mostly oriented towards social and political...  Read More >>

Karoline von Günderrode's biography - and in particular her early death - have long overshadowed an appreciation...  Read More >>

Forty years after her death, Clarice Lispector's startling oeuvre continues to fascinate readers and scholars. Internationally...  Read More >>

Considering metropolitan and colonial cultural production as a “unitary field of analysis,” this book shows how...  Read More >>

Explores primary stereotypes of Black women.  Read More >>

What did medieval people call the animals they lived and worked with? Why did they give them the names they did?...  Read More >>

At the end of his career, the Yorkshire hermit and mystic Richard Rolle (d. 1349) wrote a Latin commentary on the...  Read More >>

Explores primary stereotypes of Black women.  Read More >>

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This is an in depth exploration of how the Gothic literature boom of the late-eighteenth century was a response...  Read More >>

The first critical anthology of major programmatic texts of cultural journalism from the crucial period known in...  Read More >>

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This edited anthology offers a collection of essays that each look at various types of wayfinding. Together they...  Read More >>

This book illuminates the premodern roots of the linguistic and narrative materials of addiction discourse and argues...  Read More >>

Performing Desire examines the intellectual and philosophical complexity of a monument of medieval literature: the...  Read More >>

mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"">The Egyptian Gothic consists of novels and short stories about ancient Egyptian mummies...  Read More >>