Literary studies: general books

This book examines the role of (post)colonial ports in creating and shaping the ecotonal, cultural, historical,...  Read More >>

This ground-breaking book focuses on the dynamic interplay between language and identity in postcolonial Anglophone...  Read More >>

An absorbing study of the development and reception of musical culture in Ireland by a pioneering and deservedly...  Read More >>

Develops a method for placing book-historical evidence in dialogue with literary meaning through a detailed investigation...  Read More >>

Was Lucretius a ""fundamentalist"" Epicurean and a mere repeater of his Master’s words, or did he emerge as an innovative...  Read More >>

Containing the full text of both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Peter Heath's delightful commentary...  Read More >>

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This volume collects eighteen pieces on the Roman poet Horace (65-8 BCE) written over the last two decades. They...  Read More >>

Taking a cross-cultural and a multidisciplinary perspective, this volume enriches our understanding of the phenomenology...  Read More >>

Ce troisième volume des Abrégés de Poésie et de Littérature, à travers une pléiade lumineuse de grands esprits et...  Read More >>

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""A collection of essays examining Chaucer's attention to violence, victimhood, abuse, and isolation in Troilus...  Read More >>

Reading southern literary texts from a variety of perspectives, these lectures engage the new materialist, object-oriented...  Read More >>

Die vorliegende Literaturgeschichte entstand in deutsch-polnischer Zusammenarbeit und zeichnet die dynamische Entwicklung...  Read More >>

Explores the transformation of religious orthodoxy in the age of modernism  Read More >>

This is the first full scholarly appraisal of the distinctive British experimental writer, Ann Quin.  Read More >>

Examines Gabriele D'Annunzio to re-evaluate cultural exchange and the political dimensions of global decadence and...  Read More >>

The first book-length investigation of the history of pre-chapter epigraphs in the English novel  Read More >>

Shifts the scholarly conversation on modernism and war from shell shock to material culture  Read More >>

Explores Shakespeare's use of allegory as a privileged tool for making visible the inner workings of his characters'...  Read More >>

Applies new understandings of realism as a political aesthetic to Progressive Era Literature, arguing for its radicalism...  Read More >>

Confronts the racial and ethnic logics of the Oriental subject undergirding the development of Romantic poetics...  Read More >>

Revises current thinking about how genre operates in early modern theatre  Read More >>

The most comprehensive collection of writing by award-winning US poet, renowned translator of Sappho, and trailblazing...  Read More >>

Explores how African American literary representations of maroons in the decade leading up to the Civil War complicate...  Read More >>