Literary studies: general books

Brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, this title delves into Mark Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he...  Read More >>

""I've struck it!"" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. ""And I will give it away - to you. You will...  Read More >>

It begins like any other Tuesday morning in New York City. Emily Lombardo, a sharp-witted, coffee-dependent twenty-eight-year-old...  Read More >>

A study in the literature of selfhood across time, this book analyzes how the Gnostics, the Romantics, Kierkegaard,...  Read More >>

Archipelagothic: The Gothic in Philippine Culture is an edited volume that brings together essays that examine the...  Read More >>

Examining the African American and white racial binary in contemporary multiracial literature, Molly Littlewood...  Read More >>

Letter writing in the Northumbrian Kingdom offers a pioneering...  Read More >>

Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity....  Read More >>

Explore the soul and structure of modern Hindi verse. This scholarly work dissects the sensibility and craft of...  Read More >>

It begins like any other Tuesday morning in New York City. Emily Lombardo, a sharp-witted, coffee-dependent twenty-eight-year-old...  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

Argues that Shakespeare's plays are dramaturgically misogynist and that surface-level interventions cannot remediate...  Read More >>

Short, sharp and original commentary inspired by Peter Brooks's diverse critical work.  Read More >>

Establishes maternity as a vital theme within Virginia Woolf's feminist and political thought  Read More >>

Offers the first full-length study of Cicely Saunders' idea of 'total pain', providing a fresh perspective on the...  Read More >>

A creative and analytical study of important facets of classical Persian poetry.  Read More >>

Shows how the study of modern Arabic literature was transformed by Mustafa Badawi.  Read More >>

Explores developments in Arab autobiography over the last 40 years.  Read More >>

Explores the influences that triggered the Arabic awakening, the 'nahdah', from the 1700s onwards.  Read More >>

Studies a neglected area of postcolonial fiction, fostering a better understanding of Iraqi culture and society....  Read More >>

Provides a nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national'...  Read More >>

Explores the intricately crafted rhetorical strategies used by al-Jahiz in his letters.  Read More >>

Argues that Victorian literature uses traces of a lingering past to theorise time as non-progressive and discontinuous...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of the essential role Switzerland played in Charles Dickens's imagination  Read More >>

Articulates life writing's complex engagement with the nineteenth-century literary market  Read More >>