Literary studies: general books

The primary source of in-depth information on music learning, literacy, and reading.  Read More >>

The first in-depth study to explore the unexamined afterlives of Petrarch’s 1347 Neo-Latin epic of the Second Punic...  Read More >>

An introduction to Terence’s Eunuchus, a dramaturgically complex play addressing questions of behaviour still relevant...  Read More >>

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A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, tracing its life over the last century  Read More >>

This is the first new edition of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations in over forty years. Robert A. Kaster draws on an...  Read More >>

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The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

This book charts the Hollywood studio system's genesis, international dominance, and self-understood demise by way...  Read More >>

An exploration of how everyday Renaissance practices of folding, sending, archiving, and arranging manuscript poetry...  Read More >>

Explores how Ancien Régime writers theorized public communication through acoustic metaphors The salons, cafés,...  Read More >>

King Arthur legends spark enduring debates about leadership, love, and community, weaving medieval texts with modern...  Read More >>

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the...  Read More >>

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument...  Read More >>

This inspirational book is a delightful gift for readers and fans of Charlotte Bronte's novels.  Read More >>

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

This book is the first sustained study of the role and function of dialogue in late medieval and early modern England,...  Read More >>

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals-writers, historians,...  Read More >>

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de S Nogueira examines the life and journalism of Maria Teresa de S Nogueira,...  Read More >>

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

This book examines the transnational dynamics that shape Latina affect narrative from the 1990s through the twenty-first...  Read More >>

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