Literary studies: general books

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

Examines history, modernity, gender, and sexuality through the literary innovations of two late-Victorian female...  Read More >>

Palephatus' De incredibilibus (Athens, 4th or 3rd century BC) is the most important treatise on rationalising mythography...  Read More >>

With renowned female rappers such as Ana Tijoux, Rebeca Lane or Gata Cattana, a new way of understanding rap as...  Read More >>

First book devoted to Derek Walcott's lifelong engagement with the Atlantic visual arts  Read More >>

Presents a collection of the Faroese ballads about the Völsung hero Sigurðr fáfnisbani, the pre-eminent dragon-slaying...  Read More >>

Studies the first half of Sidonius' fifth book of letters from a philological, literary and historical perspective...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume provide new scholarly insights into British fin de siecle and enrich our understanding...  Read More >>

First published in 1972, Ghalib presents aspects of Ghalib, the last great literary figured produced by Mughal India...  Read More >>

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

A timely and original examination of lesbian modernism.  Read More >>

Studies alternative concepts to received theories and practices of poetry in early modern England  Read More >>

What do Margaret Atwood or Gulliver's Travels have to do with Facebook, Tik Tok or COVID-19 and issues of surveillance?...  Read More >>

Examines how mechanisms of change and conversions harrowed and transformed early modern people and their worlds....  Read More >>

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Demonstrates what Victorian poetry tells us about the relationship between poetry and time.  Read More >>

Presents 35 thematically organised, research-led essays on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain....  Read More >>

Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s draws attention to the wide range of postwar print...  Read More >>

This innovative volume presents for the first time collective expertise on women's magazines and periodicals of...  Read More >>

To what extent does the production of art require the work of hands? And, reciprocally, to what extent does an artwork...  Read More >>

The volume analyzes the implications of the ""world exhaustion"" concept that has emerged in a post-global cultural...  Read More >>

A completely revised edition of Katherine Mansfield's letters, incorporating recently discovered material and extensive...  Read More >>

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The...  Read More >>

The first edited collection on Anne Lister (1791-1840), this interdisciplinary book explores how her diaries (as...  Read More >>