Literary studies: general books

The first to systematically examine Waugh’s relationship with cinema in the context of modernism, this book examines...  Read More >>

This book explores the nexus between religion and literature by examining central developments in J.M. Coetzee’s...  Read More >>

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This Element adopts a holistic approach to the processing of colours in language and literature, weaving together...  Read More >>

This volume offers a new reading of Macrobius' place in late antique literary history with an exploration of the...  Read More >>

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The first study examining the translation and reception of Dutch literature in Eastern and Central Europe during...  Read More >>

This work examines the evolution of the Peruvian indigenistaliterary tradition in the twentieth century in its relation...  Read More >>

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The Ecstasy of Reproduction is a piercing analysis of contemporaneity which the author still terms postmodernity....  Read More >>

Offering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions,...  Read More >>

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The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman...  Read More >>

Bloke of All Ages offers refreshing new insights into the works of one of South Africa’s most important literary,...  Read More >>

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This series of ten volumes presents a decade-by-decade account of how literature developed in Britain throughout...  Read More >>

Challenges the myths about apathy and smugness surrounding British literature of the period.  Read More >>

Examines the significance of the Faustian pact in international law  Read More >>

A wide-ranging intellectual history of the life, death, and afterlife of the Critical Legal Studies Movement  Read More >>

Explores how espionage fiction captures the most significant political conflicts and crises of the last hundred...  Read More >>

Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literature  Read More >>

Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing  Read More >>

Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  Read More >>