Literary studies: general books

In psychotherapy, the client’s narratives serve as a starting point. Therapeutic work involves the reconstruction...  Read More >>

This book throws new light on the question of authorship in Neo- Latin literature and examines the the strategies...  Read More >>

Body Language examines how eighteenth-century medical discourse informed the comic novel. Through comic representations...  Read More >>

At the Crossroads of the Avant-Garde: Ivan Aksyonov and Russian Modernism is a pioneering study of Ivan Aksyonov,...  Read More >>

Shattering the Self in Early Modern English Verse: Gender, Sex, and Queerness Beyond the Human shows how representations...  Read More >>

Transit Lit argues that twenty-first-century African immigrant fiction serves as a key site in the contemporary...  Read More >>

Real Lives in the Eighteenth Century presents a global history using four sets of biographies to illustrate corresponding...  Read More >>

Irish Writers and The New Yorker in the Mid-Twentieth Century draws on archival research in the New Yorker Records...  Read More >>

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

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Using John Ireland's fascination with Arthur Machen as case study, this book challenges our perception of the correspondence...  Read More >>

This book on translation borrows from the introduction to Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. It will interest...  Read More >>

The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his...  Read More >>

Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social...  Read More >>

Fills a gap in comparative studies, interrogating strategies of Empire in dominating the Indigenous and linking...  Read More >>

Through an extensive series of extracts and accompanying interpretative and contextual essays, this open access...  Read More >>

Edward Lear as Victorian Modernist offers a bold new reading of Lear’s limericks as foundational works of literary...  Read More >>

The book explores how Catholicism operates in Seamus Heaney's poetry at the level of a felt sense. It is written...  Read More >>

Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential...  Read More >>

Real Lives in the Eighteenth Century presents a global history using four sets of biographies to illustrate corresponding...  Read More >>

This book investigates the nature of ‘home’ and nation in post-imperial British novels, which deal with the loss...  Read More >>

This book addresses the pressing issues of environmentalism and its representations in African literature. It emphasizes...  Read More >>

An exploration of how Pakistani Anglophone novels engage with prior texts to shape meaning, reinforce themes, and...  Read More >>

This book reconsiders Iamblichus’ Response to Porphyry, Late Antiquity’s seminal work on theurgy, which is often...  Read More >>