Literary studies: general books

Imagines great artificial fiction that represents the world in creatively nonhuman ways while challenging how we...  Read More >>

In a world of religious rivalries and state collapse, how did the looming spectre of the barbarian show what it...  Read More >>

Examines gardens, gardening and horticulture in the work of Virginia Woolf through a cultural and historical lens....  Read More >>

Explores the depiction and treatment of inanimate matter in James Joyce's oeuvre.  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

From its recurring appearances in Gothic poetry and prose to the menacing images of Fuseli and Blake, Orianne Smith...  Read More >>

Delve into a creative universe built on faith as the cornerstone of ethics, where moral dilemmas and cruelty intertwine...  Read More >>

Japanese writers' engagement with kanshi unveils a journey from the Meiji era's mastery of Literary Sinitic poetry...  Read More >>

This is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. It contains the text of Walter Pater's...  Read More >>

""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

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In Quest of a Cure explores the literary and medical cultures of European health resorts in the nineteenth and early...  Read More >>

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and...  Read More >>

Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in...  Read More >>

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Through his journals (19351950), Cesare Pavese opens a door into his life as one of Italy's most influential writers....  Read More >>

Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in...  Read More >>

This book is a phenomenological study of the crime fiction of Benjamin Black and John Banville, including novels...  Read More >>

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Drawing on new research, this wide-ranging book includes chapters by both scholars and performers. It gives proper...  Read More >>

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht's significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential...  Read More >>

Interweaving Tapestries of Culture and Sexuality, Volume 2 looks at Caribbean sexuality from around the region and...  Read More >>