Literary studies: general books

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

‘Dazzling … one fine day, you open a book by an unknown writer, and a charge of pure talent blows you away’ La...  Read More >>

Recent news images of disastrous floods, fires and earthquakes vividly show we live in an unstable world. This book...  Read More >>

'The Sound of the Past' collects nine essays on the topic of Modernism and its relationship to past histories, literatures,...  Read More >>

This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the...  Read More >>

Challenging the belief that medieval marriages were loveless, this book analyzes troubadour poetry and historical...  Read More >>

A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different...  Read More >>

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

This book explores a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking...  Read More >>

Cormorant is the natural and cultural history of a 'greedy' bird that is hated across the world and the object of...  Read More >>

Delving into his biological imagery, Tara Lee shows how Blake articulates radical views about spirituality and embodiment,...  Read More >>

This book delves into modernism, addressing its intricate relationship with the socio-political, philosophical,...  Read More >>

From Martha Washington to Jill Biden, Mars Attacks! to Scandal, and the Ladies’ Home Journal to Vogue this diverse...  Read More >>

Thomas Leonard-Roy explores the writings of six canonical authors--Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell,...  Read More >>

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Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Considers relationships between modernist literature and literary criticism and argues that new modernist fiction...  Read More >>

A thorough examination of four Peruvian intellectuals who found inspiration in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's work...  Read More >>

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in the Odyssey to better understand...  Read More >>

These letters between Theodore Dreiser, pioneer of literary realism, and the actress and artist Kyra Markham (born...  Read More >>

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

Examines Scottish Romantic writers' shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead  Read More >>

Galicia as a Literary Idea explores the relationship of Jewish tradition and modernity in literary works by Joseph...  Read More >>