Literary studies: general books

This collection of essays was born from a wish to show to a wider audience how exciting and productive Samuel Beckett...  Read More >>

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A wide ranging discussion of emotions in the key historically oriented prose genres of medieval Iceland, explored...  Read More >>

""Nan Z. Da, who immigrated to the United States from China as a child, analyzes Shakespeare's King Lear as a way...  Read More >>

Demonstrates how early modern women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter wielded poetics as a tool...  Read More >>

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'Who doubts, my reader, that you will be amazed that a woman has the audacity not only to write a book, but to send...  Read More >>

A lively and accessible introduction to Machado de Assis and his work.  Read More >>

Katherine Mansfield and Germany focuses on an under-researched yet crucially important aspect of Mansfield’s life...  Read More >>

Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare provides critical analysis of the most important moments of hospitality or...  Read More >>

The first full examination of a fascinating manuscript, Brogynton ii.1, a Middle English miscellany with a little...  Read More >>

Captures in unprecedented depth the cultural significance of the designed landscape and its relationship with Bluestocking...  Read More >>

Since the earliest days of its circulation, Dante's Divine Comedy has drawn readers into conversation with it, but...  Read More >>

Federico Garcia Lorca's (1898-1936) powerful and experimental colour-work is a critically undernourished aspect...  Read More >>

In Dante's Paradiso, the first garden dweller, Adam, speaks of the language he 'used and shaped' (Par. XXVI, 114)...  Read More >>

Focussing on the experience of work, community and the functioning of class society; on relations between France...  Read More >>

In France, in Sweden and in the United States, since the beginning of the 1970s, children's novels explore the inner...  Read More >>

D. Bauer, Deep Time in an Age of Traces. Modern Temporality in Balzac's Le Colonel Chabert and La Peau de chagrin...  Read More >>

Economics and fiction often pursue parallel objectives. Economists analyse human decisions and interactions in markets...  Read More >>

This is the first modern scholarly edition of the letters of Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), one of the major literary...  Read More >>

Demonstrates the creative affinities between ancient verbal and modern visual modes of narrative through the example...  Read More >>

In this new memoir, cycling legend Sir Chris Hoy reveals the truth of his cancer diagnosis and how he is determined...  Read More >>

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This book tells the story of the ominous synergy that has developed in recent years between the Postcolonial Left...  Read More >>