Literary studies: general books

This Element explores the Jacobitism, focusing on multi-media representations and multi-lingual productions. It...  Read More >>

A volume on the early writings of the science fiction author Octavia E. Butler that offers an illustrated background...  Read More >>

“You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” These are some of the most quoted lines written by Samuel Beckett,...  Read More >>

The Nazis and their collaborators buried over 100,000 victims at Babyn Yar, a ravine in modern-day Ukraine. Most...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive picture of the production, reception and dissemination of Goldblatt’s translation,...  Read More >>

As with the companion volume on France, societal factors are discussed, here relating to the cultural renaissance...  Read More >>

An ancient Greek guide to the heavens, translated in a new accessible modern English edition. A poetic guide to...  Read More >>

Abbreviating Middle English: Scribal practices, Visual Texts and Medieval Multimodalities investigates the changing...  Read More >>

Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction argues that literary fiction has reimagined life in the...  Read More >>

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), the Argentine literary titan, redefined the boundaries of fiction, philosophy, and...  Read More >>

This book takes up the task of mapping discursive shifts in the representation of disability in dystopian youth...  Read More >>

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This work demonstrates how Latina/os have been integral to US and Latin American literature and history since the...  Read More >>

This book examines the poetry and poetic influence, before and after, of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, including 17th...  Read More >>

Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell examines heretical elements in Durrell’s thought and writings...  Read More >>

Der anonym verfasste Ovide moralisé (1309-1320), der die lateinischen Metamorphosen erstmals ins Französische übersetzt...  Read More >>

A great deal has been written about early modern temporality, both by scholars of Renaissance drama and historians...  Read More >>

Manchester Wasn't Built on Cotton. It Was Built on Grit.Think you know Manchester? Forget tired clichés about rain...  Read More >>

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This is the first ever effort to bring such a wide range of socio-cultural issues and establish interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

The chapters in this book span the years from 1902 to 1991 and interrogate the ways in which architecture constructed...  Read More >>

Velleius Paterculus, soldier and senator, chronicles in concise fashion the story of Rome and Roman culture from...  Read More >>

Following my Nose is Hugo and Nebulaauthor and critic Alexei Panshin's very personal journey into literary analysisand...  Read More >>