Literary studies: general books

Step back in time to ancient Greece with ""The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?,"" a captivating...  Read More >>

This book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. More fundamentally, it...  Read More >>

In this perceptive and rich collection of essays, Colm Tóibín investigates the lives as well as the work of homosexual...  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett's literary pedestrianism transitions from Romanticism and Edwardian autonomy to mutuality and transitory...  Read More >>

Synthesizing music, literature and theory, Fraser Riddell reveals the importance of music in emergent queer identities...  Read More >>

In this first comprehensive English-language portrait of the Brothers Grimm as political thinkers and actors, Jakob...  Read More >>

Providing new perspectives on Wordsworth's later poetry, Philip Shaw reveals how his work after the revolutionary...  Read More >>

Two centuries of sexism obscured Staël's legacy. John Isbell here restores her reputation as historian, theorist...  Read More >>

Sixteen international scholars uncover neglected histories about the contributions of eighteenth-century women to...  Read More >>

The first published book on John Milton's masculinities, this study shows how a revolutionary poet preached liberty...  Read More >>

Progressive women writers discovered unparalleled freedoms and opportunities for intellectual agency in Germany...  Read More >>

Harry R. McCarthy's innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to foreground how boys'...  Read More >>

Celebrating plurality in collaboration and underscoring the truly social nature of nineteenth-century writing, Heather...  Read More >>

In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the pernicious influence of systemic whiteness on our interpretation...  Read More >>

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While serving in the diplomatic service in Stockholm, the author fell under the spell of Norse literature, with...  Read More >>

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Writing his ""Comedy"" (the epithet ""Divine"" was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, Dante...  Read More >>

Dante’s epic poem of the soul’s journey through the afterlife remains essential reading seven centuries after its...  Read More >>

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Explore the intertwined literary histories of England and Scandinavia in Oscar Ludvig Olson's ""The Relation of...  Read More >>

Explore the rich tapestry of Roman literary history with J. W. Mackail's ""Latin Literature."" This comprehensive...  Read More >>

Writing his ""Comedy"" (the epithet ""Divine"" was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, Dante...  Read More >>