Literary studies: general books

""Highways of Canadian Literature"" offers a foundational survey of the development of English-language literature...  Read More >>

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

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With incisive purpose and clear-eyed nuance, West of the Ghetto showcases Jewish women writers' vital and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Attends to the early modern stage as a platform for the creation and interrogation of knowledge and knowledge production,...  Read More >>

What kind of a playwright comes into being when an avant-garde poet moves on to write Christian popular theatre,...  Read More >>

This volume explores the early Soviet reception of Laurence Sterne. By reconstructing individual readerly encounters...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern...  Read More >>

Anne Shakespeare's grave is commemorated with a brass plaque that has an English section of basic biographical information,...  Read More >>

This Handbook deals with textual criticism of Greek and Latin literature and of ancient documents (inscriptions,...  Read More >>

This book offers the first critical edition and English translation of Vincenzo Figliucci’s Stanze sopra le stelle...  Read More >>

Primo Levi’s development as a writer was expressed through multiple literary genres and an increasing awareness...  Read More >>

This open access book sets out to investigate how contemporary African women writers are challenging traditional...  Read More >>

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W.H. Auden once remarked that the complete œuvre of Jean Cocteau could fill a warehouse. Over the course of his...  Read More >>

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'If I be waspish, best beware my sting'  Read More >>

An immersive account of William Shakespeare’s life and legacy presented in a lavishly illustrated journal-style...  Read More >>

An exploration and insightful analysis of sisters in literature and their depiction in three centuries of the novel....  Read More >>

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This collectionreassesses and revitalises the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century...  Read More >>