Literary studies: general books

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Explores various aspects of Arabic literature of migration published over the past three decades, focusing on the...  Read More >>

This book provides innovative, up-to-date essays about Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. Recognising herself as a child...  Read More >>

Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

The Spanish Civil War (19361939) inspired an outpouring of responses among Canadian cultural producers. Yet, the...  Read More >>

This fourth volume of The Collected Works of Charles and Mary Lamb contains Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia,...  Read More >>

How the ""Asian girl"" is central to the story of US imperialism and the formation of Asian America Representations...  Read More >>

""Situates Chaucer's proverbs in their premodern cultural and intellectual contexts, arguing that Chaucer places...  Read More >>

How the ""Asian girl"" is central to the story of US imperialism and the formation of Asian America Representations...  Read More >>

In recounting the fascinating history of how modern Irish writers politically, socially, and polemically organised...  Read More >>

Against an African, African American, and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement's backdrop, this book examines six African...  Read More >>

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In Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan, Ariel Stilerman examines the transformation of classical Japanese...  Read More >>

Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous...  Read More >>

New paperback edition - Sisters Jane and Cassandra Austen were inseparable and sought one anothers approval in all...  Read More >>

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

Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

""In Critical Failures, Miyabi Goto examines the rise of hihyåo, a practice of critical reading, in Japan's Meiji...  Read More >>

This book takes a literary geographical approach to the study of folklore, exploring the complex relationships between...  Read More >>

Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media tells a new story of how nineteenth-century evangelicals...  Read More >>

A new translation into English by G. J. Racz of José Hernández's long narrative poems The Gaucho Martín Fierro and...  Read More >>

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor...  Read More >>

A new translation of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924). The story of Hans Castorp's seven-year stay at a tuberculosis...  Read More >>