Literary studies: general books

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""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 >>

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

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

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El libro discute sobre como el desantropocentrismo no puede predicarse...  Read More >>

Taking an innovative approach to the study of religious literature and literary modernity, this book examines an...  Read More >>

Explores Bengal> 's political, social, and cultural history through Rabindranath Tagore> 's music and ideas. Using...  Read More >>