Literary studies: general books

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

Explores the coevolution of Absolute idealist philosophy and British fiction from the Romantic period forward.  Read More >>

Explores how African American literary representations of maroons in the decade leading up to the Civil War complicate...  Read More >>

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

Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

The most comprehensive collection of writing by award-winning US poet, renowned translator of Sappho, and trailblazing...  Read More >>

This book aims to foster a Dalit feminist discourse by reading Dalit writings. The contributors analyse Dalit texts...  Read More >>

First published in 1987, The New Eighteenth Century (now with a new preface by Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown)...  Read More >>

A Study of the Twenty-First-Century Latin American Novel in an Era of Apocalyptic Catastrophe  Read More >>

A timely look into how fascist ideas permeate contemporary culture well beyond the far right As challenges posed...  Read More >>

Inquiry into African American literature in recent decades has neglected to probe the intellectual structure of...  Read More >>

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This book examines contemporary refugee narratives, and explores their power to challenge dominant representations...  Read More >>

A multidisciplinary study of the art and science of botany in Shakespeare's time, Marvellous Vegetables in the English...  Read More >>

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This book asks how cultural and artistic practices constitute a central tool for the expression and recognition...  Read More >>

Explores the profound influence of multilingual dictionaries, dialogues, and grammars on English Renaissance playwrights...  Read More >>

For more than twenty years, The Age of Johnson has aspired to present to a wide readership a body of influential...  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 >>

The Fool and the Clown in Western Culture and Literature: Homo Sapiens is a fascinating description of these two...  Read More >>