Literary studies: general books

An examination of Spanglish, Portuñol, and Judeo-Spanish literatures that builds on sociolinguistic understandings...  Read More >>

Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US...  Read More >>

In Irish Anthropocene, Malcolm Sen traces the ways in which contemporary Irish literature is deeply engaged with...  Read More >>

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change...  Read More >>

""In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of...  Read More >>

Is conflict inherent to the politics of borders? Recent global events, erupting from national, religious, class,...  Read More >>

Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the “neural unconscious” and higher-order...  Read More >>

This Element explores Tertullian, the first author to write Christian theology in Latin. It focuses on the primary...  Read More >>

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

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With incisive purpose and clear-eyed nuance, West of the Ghetto showcases Jewish women writers' vital and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Joseph Ashmore argues that early modern literature became a key site for handling questions of faith during the...  Read More >>

Laura Fox Gill sheds new light on Milton's afterlives in a multimedia age, expanding our understanding of literary...  Read More >>

This Element explores Tertullian, the first author to write Christian theology in Latin. It focuses on the primary...  Read More >>

An investigation of the specific uses of the motif of melancholy in modern Kurdish novels  Read More >>

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell shared one of the most remarkable literary friendships of the 19th century,...  Read More >>

Attends to the early modern stage as a platform for the creation and interrogation of knowledge and knowledge production,...  Read More >>

Examines the transformative power of repetition in contemporary poetic practices.  Read More >>

What kind of a playwright comes into being when an avant-garde poet moves on to write Christian popular theatre,...  Read More >>

By Heart or From the Scroll studies six grammatika vases depicting scenes from the Odyssey, offering new insights...  Read More >>

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas:...  Read More >>

Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler's Kindred...  Read More >>

Exploring Edith Wharton's engagement with global issues in her life and writing Hailed for her remarkable social...  Read More >>

Bringing together modern poetry’s aesthetic experimentation and modern philosophy’s attention to the problem of...  Read More >>

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