Literary studies: general books

An accessible introduction to the Roman tragedy Hercules on Oeta with chapters on its contexts, key themes and reception....  Read More >>

Offers a dedicated and detailed theorization and genre study of the ""bonkbuster,"" a phenomenally popular genre...  Read More >>

A survey of indigenous Judaism in colonial Algeria from a Halachic perspective, looking at the transition from Muslim-Ottoman...  Read More >>

The first book-length study of fictions of radical life extension, this book recovers a major but as-yet unrecognized...  Read More >>

Offering a new introduction to an important yet overlooked group of 20th century American poets, this book re-examines...  Read More >>

An examination of the ethical and social assumptions of Zora Neale Hurston’s aesthetics and feminist visions, this...  Read More >>

This collection demonstrates how to achieve more comprehensive scholarship on J. R. R. Tolkien, connecting Tolkien...  Read More >>

Employing theoretical lenses of implicit theology and secular spirituality, this book blurs the boundaries between...  Read More >>

Examines the practice of literary declamation in German literature and its place alongside print culture in the...  Read More >>

This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first...  Read More >>

В своей книге Гейл Роджерс реконструирует межкультурные связи двух ключевых модернистских движений — британского...  Read More >>

English translation of Sophocles' tragic story of Antigone addresses civil disobedience and a moral imperative which...  Read More >>

How women wood engravers helped reshape the visual and literary landscape of modern Britain Amid the austerities...  Read More >>

Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You a Better Writer is a unique reference guide designed to teach writers...  Read More >>

The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos...  Read More >>

Explore creative approaches for teaching literature that interlace pressing social issues—climate challenges, political...  Read More >>

A moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical...  Read More >>

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Examining a strain of feminine speculative thought that resonates with contemporary efforts to recenter pleasure....  Read More >>

How women wood engravers helped reshape the visual and literary landscape of modern Britain Amid the austerities...  Read More >>

This volume aims to explore and highlight aspects of the work of Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia. Topics include Sulpicia's...  Read More >>

Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You a Better Writer is a unique reference guide designed to teach writers...  Read More >>

This is a collection of seminal papers by the late Michael Frede on an important period in philosophical history,...  Read More >>

Nature's ability to satisfy deep human needs is familiar to anyone who has hiked up a mountain, canoed a river,...  Read More >>

This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout...  Read More >>