Literary studies: general books

Around 1700, England saw a heated public debate about the soul's immortality. Two unlikely figures--a lawyer and...  Read More >>

The 1810s are often overlooked as a transitional time between Romantic and Victorian literature and culture. The...  Read More >>

This book, underpinned by a database, demonstrates that rhyme is not a superficial decorative feature but rather...  Read More >>

The perfect gift for the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fan, The Complete Sherlock Holmes is an elegant edition boasting...  Read More >>

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

A landmark book-the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen...  Read More >>

An account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī, a twelfth-century...  Read More >>

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American...  Read More >>

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

In Queer Forms and Pronouns, author Lena Mattheis explores gender nonconformity (GNC) pronouns in Anglophone literature...  Read More >>

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  Read More >>

Ensayos para docentes exploran la amplia obra de Benito Pérez Galdós, abarcando novelas, cuentos, teatro y periodismo....  Read More >>

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Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening...  Read More >>

A thorough examination of four Peruvian intellectuals who found inspiration in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's work...  Read More >>

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  Read More >>

Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between...  Read More >>

A rethinking of the evolution of the British novel that departs from dominant narratives and argues for an importantly...  Read More >>

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