Literary studies: general books

A transformative lens revealing the historical racial context that profoundly influenced European fairy tales. Engaging...  Read More >>

The diverse forms and structures of graphic narratives discussed in this volume by a range of international scholars...  Read More >>

A landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life In this groundbreaking literary...  Read More >>

A surprising look at how American writers envision a more equitable healthcare system In the United States,...  Read More >>

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Detailed historical context, biographies of each writer, and evocative illustrations support this meaningful collection...  Read More >>

Jacopo Passavanti is a complete English translation of Jacopo Passavanti's summa on penitence that explores sin,...  Read More >>

A collection of essays that examines literature in seven languages from across the Islamic world and explores the...  Read More >>

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Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late-medieval and early-modern English poets thought about the material...  Read More >>

From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, a collection...  Read More >>

Haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been...  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 >>

In Other Words, the definitive translation coursebook for three decades, offers practical guidance based on linguistic...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of the classical influence on Hungarian culture in the 19th and 20th century, exploring issues...  Read More >>

Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of...  Read More >>

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

Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s...  Read More >>

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

A long overdue examination of Rubén Darío's multilingual work and influences alongside the contexts and politics...  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 >>

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