Literary studies: general books

A comprehensive and cutting-edge guide to Alasdair Gray's literary and artistic practice.  Read More >>

Essays and translations by modern-day scholars organised along the principles of the Arabic narrative tradition....  Read More >>

Studies literature's role in representing and addressing dis/trust in the digital world.  Read More >>

The first book-length study of alcohol in Victorian literature and culture.  Read More >>

Provides the first critical edition in English of Elvira Hernndez's exceptional poetry, from her early works to...  Read More >>

History mingles with romance in John Galt's only novel set in the English Middle Ages.  Read More >>

Eve de Charles Peguy. Ecrivain, poete et essayiste francais (1873-1914).  Read More >>

""Drawing on a range of authors that includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, Ali Smith, Tom McCarthy, Duncan...  Read More >>

An exploration into how the figure of the zombie uniquely articulates the societal changes prompted by the health,...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive look at the religious significance of this century's contemporary English literature, this...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and...  Read More >>

Mining unexplored discourses of pain in New England literary texts, this book shows how pain was central in shaping...  Read More >>

Exploring 18th-century medicine's construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as ""hermaphrodites"",...  Read More >>

Presents original archival research on eight largely unknown émigré translators whose work during the Cold War actively...  Read More >>

This book theorizes the slave ship as a unique site for the imaginative and material convergence of abolitionism...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between music and emotion in the Caroline theatre. Music could be ravishing,...  Read More >>

Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies...  Read More >>

In Print for the Pocket, Madeline Zehnder examines how nineteenth-century Americans understood a common but often...  Read More >>

Administration and Economy in Early Babylonian Society unlocks 4,000-year-old business records from Mesopotamia,...  Read More >>

Blood of Others offers a cultural history of Crimea and the Black Sea region, one of Europe's most volatile flashpoints,...  Read More >>

Acclaimed author and translator Sophus Helle considers an ancient creation story with themes of humanity, class...  Read More >>

An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction’s power to intervene in the social, political, and environmental...  Read More >>

Exploring Romantic writers' free and imaginative confrontation with eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century scientific...  Read More >>

This is the first book to identify and trace a theme of old age running throughout T.S. Eliot’s oeuvre. Previously...  Read More >>

Die Gründerin der Internationalen Jugendbibliothek Jella Lepman (1891-1970) gehört zu den prägenden Persönlichkeiten...  Read More >>