Literary studies: general books

This book is for an international audience concerned about environmental crisis. It shows how writers across the...  Read More >>

This book, underpinned by a database, demonstrates that rhyme is not a superficial decorative feature but rather...  Read More >>

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The first study examining the translation and reception of Dutch literature in Eastern and Central Europe during...  Read More >>

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Explores the cult status popularity of Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War era,...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary study of the literary representation and exploration of emotions and moral values in German...  Read More >>

This intersectional study demonstrates for the first time how the lens of Graeco-Roman antiquity has informed Irish...  Read More >>

A thought-provoking new assessment of this important Greek dramatic text by a major scholar.  Read More >>

Establishing the existence of a category of poems from the Modernist and contemporary periods which give agency...  Read More >>

The first to systematically examine Waugh’s relationship with cinema in the context of modernism, this book examines...  Read More >>

A renowned Brontë scholar and dress historian’s innovative, richly illustrated biography explores Charlotte Brontë's...  Read More >>

This book explores the nexus between religion and literature by examining central developments in J.M. Coetzee’s...  Read More >>

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This Element adopts a holistic approach to the processing of colours in language and literature, weaving together...  Read More >>

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This work examines the evolution of the Peruvian indigenistaliterary tradition in the twentieth century in its relation...  Read More >>

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The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman...  Read More >>

The Ecstasy of Reproduction is a piercing analysis of contemporaneity which the author still terms postmodernity....  Read More >>

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman...  Read More >>

Offering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions,...  Read More >>

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American...  Read More >>