Literary studies: general books

Although the practice of reading and writing typically requires stasis, travel writing emerges from movement. This...  Read More >>

It studies nature in Dickinson’s works from five aspects including historical, pictorial, ecocritical, philosophical...  Read More >>

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À la croisée de la zoopoétique et de l’écopoétique, cet ouvrage explore les représentations de l'animal dans la...  Read More >>

Examines the significance of the Faustian pact in international law  Read More >>

A wide-ranging intellectual history of the life, death, and afterlife of the Critical Legal Studies Movement  Read More >>

Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literature  Read More >>

Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  Read More >>

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic...  Read More >>

The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction...  Read More >>

Uncovers how historical novels rewrite the history of the Korean War  Read More >>

Presents an image of Victorian life-especially womens' lives-that uniquely and surprisingly anticipates our own...  Read More >>

Extends the body of scholarship on Comic Gothic to cover contemporary texts, new media and texts from other cultures...  Read More >>

Refines our understanding of Virginia Woolf as a politically engaged writer  Read More >>

Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing  Read More >>

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Fascinating conversations with a leading twentieth century literary critic, author, and cultural gadfly. Author...  Read More >>

This book examines feminist textual and cinematic engagements with the idea of the Middle Ages in the 19th and 20th...  Read More >>

Through a series of cogent case studies, all situated from 1050 to 1250, this book highlights how restrictive and...  Read More >>

Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers  Read More >>

Discusses the ways in which post-independence novels and films understand the relationship between subjectivity...  Read More >>

Argues that J. M. Coetzee's works constitute a form of late modernism that situates life at the heart of questions...  Read More >>

Contends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous...  Read More >>

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul  Read More >>

This is the story of Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed, an exploration of when and where ancient myths become metonymic...  Read More >>