Literary studies: general books

What is there in language that is so dreadful that, most often, man assents to it only in order to chatter rather...  Read More >>

Schelmuffsky is a wildly eccentric baroque novel that recounts the travels of a hero extraordinary by birth and...  Read More >>

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After decades of study on Cocteau, is there anything new to say about his work? This book, the result of a conference...  Read More >>

Origins have shaped contemporary literature. This volume is the first to take this into account from a cross-genre...  Read More >>

Considers how Anglo-Scottish conflict was memorialised, reimagined and embedded by later writers.  Read More >>

As one of the foundational texts in the field of postcolonial writing, Barbara Harlow’s Resistance Literature introduced...  Read More >>

This is the first book-length academic study of the work of John Wyndham, a formative figure in postwar British...  Read More >>

Offers a nuanced reading of character and subjectivity in medieval romance via an exploration of its conventions....  Read More >>

""Specters of War analyzes how mourning has been expressed in postwar Salvadoran and Guatemalan fiction, theatre,...  Read More >>

Übersetzungen spiegeln und bestätigen die Normen der zielkulturellen Mehrheitsgesellschaft und ihrer machthabenden...  Read More >>

Showing how museum practices shed new light on literary form. How and why do books deploy objects in order to narrate...  Read More >>

The first collection of essays on this subject, this Edinburgh Companion assembles some of the world's foremost...  Read More >>

This collection highlights the contributions of women writers, editors and critics to periodical culture in the...  Read More >>

By bringing together leading Victorianists with a wide range of interests, this innovative collection of essays...  Read More >>

This collection of new essays recovers and explores a neglected archive of women's print media and dispels the myth...  Read More >>

The present volume of new, interdisciplinary scholarship investigates the arts with which Pound had a lifelong interaction...  Read More >>

Edinburgh Studies in Later Latin Literature offers a forum for new scholarship on important and sometimes neglected...  Read More >>

Widespread panic once generated by 'tramps' produced interdisciplinary and international dialogue on race, work,...  Read More >>

Traces authors' attitudes toward US economic expansionism through their fictional allusions to internationally-traded...  Read More >>

Explores abstraction as a keyword in aesthetic modernism and in critical thinking since Marx  Read More >>

This authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war's upheavals across a wide...  Read More >>

Explores how military medical practitioners articulated and represented their spatial and sensory experiences of...  Read More >>

The first critical study of Anna Kavan's experimental fiction  Read More >>

Foregrounds underrepresented agents (women, nature and the nonhuman) in and through the poetry of Theocritus.  Read More >>