Literary studies: general books

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Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies...  Read More >>

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In Print for the Pocket, Madeline Zehnder examines how nineteenth-century Americans understood a common but often...  Read More >>

Administration and Economy in Early Babylonian Society unlocks 4,000-year-old business records from Mesopotamia,...  Read More >>

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Acclaimed author and translator Sophus Helle considers an ancient creation story with themes of humanity, class...  Read More >>

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The Epic of Florida brings to light a neglected tradition of colonial poetry from the sixteenth century. Written...  Read More >>

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure...  Read More >>

Die Gründerin der Internationalen Jugendbibliothek Jella Lepman (1891-1970) gehört zu den prägenden Persönlichkeiten...  Read More >>

This book theorizes the slave ship as a unique site for the imaginative and material convergence of abolitionism...  Read More >>

This anthology brings together the unpublished poetry of Jacob Bronowski (1908-74). One of the last great polymaths,...  Read More >>

Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action...  Read More >>

Russo-Soviet imperialist hauntings conceptualizes neo-Gothic texts from the former Eastern Bloc countries and Soviet...  Read More >>

Taking an innovative approach to the study of religious literature and literary modernity, this book examines an...  Read More >>

The Epic of Florida brings to light a neglected tradition of colonial poetry from the sixteenth century. Written...  Read More >>

Explores Bengal> 's political, social, and cultural history through Rabindranath Tagore> 's music and ideas. Using...  Read More >>

Redefining Faith in Dante’s ""Divine Comedy"" offers a bold reinterpretation of one of the world’s most studied...  Read More >>

This book reexamines William Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (1939), a novel of increasing sociohistorical...  Read More >>

History has shown that antisemitism reactivates and rises like a latent viral infection at the slightest crisis...  Read More >>

This new theory of reader response describes ""perverse attachment,"" or the powerful desire to intervene in a story,...  Read More >>

This edited volume presents a collection of new essays on Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis from leading figures in...  Read More >>