Literary studies: general books

This Element traces the origins of gender bias in the English language. Situating the linguistic representations...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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Provides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the...  Read More >>

Establishes Elizabeth von Arnim as an important figure in literary modernism.  Read More >>

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Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  Read More >>

Examines the scene of reading in modernism, psychoanalysis and popular novels from the early twentieth century  Read More >>

An intriguing investigation of how aging, place, and care intersect in the newly emerging genre of the care home...  Read More >>

Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media tells a new story of how nineteenth-century evangelicals...  Read More >>

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Demonstrates how the career of Britain's first major Black actor, Ira Aldridge, transformed a range of dramatic...  Read More >>

Traces the evolving relationship between American literature and therapeutic cultures across the twentieth and...  Read More >>

The first critical edition of the final text of Lockhart's Valerius, A Roman Story.  Read More >>

Addresses the changing geographical and historical background to Conrad's life as a source for his developing artistic...  Read More >>

The first curatorial studies volume to engage with the concept of 'the future'.  Read More >>

A timely look into how fascist ideas permeate contemporary culture well beyond the far right. Presenting a view...  Read More >>