Literary studies: general books

As the son of a famous writer, the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, in this memoir, explores his...  Read More >>

Award-winning classicist, ancient historian and author Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey through the...  Read More >>

A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English  Read More >>

""This book examines artistic, literary, and technological depictions of climate change and how they influence humanity's...  Read More >>

A forensic psychiatrist's corrective and innovative diagnosis of the conditions that led to Ernest Hemingway's suicideHemingway's...  Read More >>

""Study of Oscar Wilde's two volumes of fairy tales, The Happy Prince and Other Tales and A House of Pomegranates,...  Read More >>

Introduces scholars and students of literature to previously neglected or unknown works of literature, as well as...  Read More >>

Jane Austen’s Notebook is a biography with a difference, providing a full and detailed account of Austen’s life...  Read More >>

Early Modern Women’s Work examines the contributions of female writers, artists, scientists, religious leaders,...  Read More >>

In Chapters 5-8, Italian translations of comix dealing with such controversial themes as sex, drugs, political struggle,...  Read More >>

Contemporary Queer Modernism is a collection of scholarship that offers a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to the...  Read More >>

Wild Anthropocene demonstrates how literature illuminates progressive solutions to Anthropocene challenges. It will...  Read More >>

Bringing together a wide range of critical and creative voices in the first book-length study of Fogarty’s work,...  Read More >>

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A biography of the book that inspired Prince to adopt purple as his signature color, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author...  Read More >>

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This biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels....  Read More >>

Explores discussions of numbers, arithmetic, and other mathematical operations in late medieval English sermons,...  Read More >>

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Contemporary Queer Modernism is a collection of scholarship that offers a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration brings together theatre artists, currently and formerly incarcerated...  Read More >>

Early Modern Women’s Work examines the contributions of female writers, artists, scientists, religious leaders,...  Read More >>

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The first critical study to trace the hard-boiled detective inheritance of America's Storyteller  Read More >>