Literary studies: general books

Studies the intertwined manner in which Arabic and Turkish literatures took shape as national traditions.  Read More >>

Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism...  Read More >>

This book explores representations of Amazonian Indigenous peoples in contemporary cultural texts.  Read More >>

This book provides an analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their contributions...  Read More >>

This book explores the rich and varied mystical writings by and about medieval and early modern women across Western...  Read More >>

The go-to volume for anyone interested in epic literature in a global framework. Engaging with powerful stories...  Read More >>

Traces the evolving relationship between American literature and therapeutic cultures across the twentieth and...  Read More >>

Newly available in paperback, this iconoclastic study draws on affect theory, the history of emotions, and new materialism...  Read More >>

Drawing on literature, legal texts, and archival materials from the Italian Renaissance, The Ambassador and the...  Read More >>

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Reading with Jane Austen rereads Austen's novels within the context of the rich Georgian literary culture that she...  Read More >>

The first curatorial studies volume to engage with the concept of 'the future'.  Read More >>

Tennyson’s writing life spanned a period from the Regency to the last decade of Victoria’s reign and he is often...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on the multifaceted meaning of wind and its various attributions. Wind is certainly more than...  Read More >>

""Shows how competing ideas about the reader in US literature and literary theory of the late 1960s and 70s reconfigured...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking study reveals how the Rossetti siblings revolutionized Victorian conceptions of selfhood through...  Read More >>

Fifty years after its original publication in 1976, this excellent analysis of the psycho-social dimensions of Shakespearean...  Read More >>

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Provides a first-hand account of the revolutionary politics and culture of 1970s Tehran.  Read More >>

ABOUT THE BOOK This book has an absolute lack of literary and academic value but it can be a diamond for those...  Read More >>

A scholarly edition of William Barnes's Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect as published in the Dorset County...  Read More >>

Studies literary and cinematic representations of sex work in Cambodia and Vietnam to rethink claims about the 'truth'...  Read More >>

A queer, postcolonial reading of twentieth-century Irish women's writing.  Read More >>

Victorian Women's Travel Narratives and the Female-Capitalist Gaze argues that female travellers both informed and...  Read More >>