Literary studies: general books

Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the ""Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel""...  Read More >>

Featuring more than 80 illustrations and easy access to related music files, this magisterial work argues that a...  Read More >>

Recovers Jane Crow-era Black women's writing as a challenge to the white supremacist and patriarchal logics of Western...  Read More >>

In a series of incisive readings, Francisco E. Robles provides a literary history of midcentury US multiethnic literature,...  Read More >>

Explores how French and Algerian dramatists addressed violence, conflict, and war trauma after the German occupation...  Read More >>

This is a revised critical edition of philosopher and scientist, Francesco Patrizi's manuscript, Il Delfino, overo...  Read More >>

This book explores the relationship between Anne Brontë’s work and the life and writings of Lord Byron.  Read More >>

The C programming language has been a cornerstone of computer science for decades, serving as the foundation for...  Read More >>

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This book demonstrates the continuity of Roman Catholicism in English Literature in a Biblicist age which established...  Read More >>

Born in 1940 in Lillebonne, Normandy, Annie Ernaux is a literary alchemist who transforms the raw material of her...  Read More >>

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This book looks at Pakistani fiction from an environmental perspective, focusing on the novels of the internationally...  Read More >>

This updated and unabridged edition of The Stones of Venice introduces new readers to John Ruskin's classic Victorian...  Read More >>

Recovers Jane Crow-era Black women's writing as a challenge to the white supremacist and patriarchal logics of Western...  Read More >>

Explores how French and Algerian dramatists addressed violence, conflict, and war trauma after the German occupation...  Read More >>

In a series of incisive readings, Francisco E. Robles provides a literary history of midcentury US multiethnic literature,...  Read More >>

This book addresses a universal problem: the transmission of psycho-physiological reactions from one person to another,...  Read More >>

The Egypt of the pharaohs is not only monumental pyramids, majestic temples, or inviolate tombs. It has also bequeathed...  Read More >>

Using close readings of nine novels by African or African-descended novelists, this book examines three phases of...  Read More >>

""Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian...  Read More >>

It traces the evolution of travel writing studies over the last two decades and points to innovative ways to study...  Read More >>

This book uncovers queer-anarchist dimensions of the second half of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy's life (1828–1910),...  Read More >>