Literary studies: general books

Why has nature writing gained such popularity at a time of unprecedented ecological destruction? Guided by this...  Read More >>

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This is an Element about wonder − as an object, as a feeling, as an invitation to study, and as a way of thinking...  Read More >>

Bringing together twenty-seven established and emerging scholars, The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies...  Read More >>

This edited collection contends that the figure of the child is foundational to the workings of biopolitical power...  Read More >>

Warrior-Writers of World War II delivers a thorough study of key American writers who experienced combat in World...  Read More >>

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This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time,...  Read More >>

This Very Short Introduction will place Trollope's work in the context of his life and times, drawing on recent...  Read More >>

Rethinks modernism as a category by focusing on little-known late-modernist groupings of authors.  Read More >>

Explores the idea that Shakespeare's dramatic writing, which powerfully represents the sea, also resembles it.  Read More >>

The first large-scale study of English baroque literature.  Read More >>

The first study to consider how Whiteness pervades and is challenged in contemporary British and US Absurdist poetry....  Read More >>

This book adopts a transatlantic approach to consider literature and cultural products produced by authors confronted...  Read More >>

Importantly, the widely discussed education policies for migrant children are part of a broader framework of national...  Read More >>

Winner of the ASLE-UKI Book Prize 2023. The commons and enclosure are among the most vital ways of thinking about...  Read More >>

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This is an Element about wonder − as an object, as a feeling, as an invitation to study, and as a way of thinking...  Read More >>

This volume on Graeco-Roman perceptions of sensory experience therefore investigates the aspect of the extreme from...  Read More >>

This collection critically examines the notion of mediation as it manifests itself at the intersection of multimodal...  Read More >>

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This introduction to British literature from 1900–2021 looks at British writing from the perspective of the 2016...  Read More >>

A Year of Real and Literary Birds is simultaneously an almanac of bird life, a work of interdisciplinary literary...  Read More >>

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

Part of the Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis critical edition, which brings together all of Wyndham Lewis's published...  Read More >>