Literary studies: general books

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What if a single ancient text could ignite a nation's darkest ambitions? In Germania By Tacitus: The Reich's Sacred...  Read More >>

This monograph offers a comprehensive exploration of Oliphant’s Gothic literature, in the light of her religious...  Read More >>

Keegan Cook Finberg argues that poetry became an increasingly capacious force in the second half of the twentieth...  Read More >>

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Correcting the misunderstood role of maxims at the intersection of early science and literature Eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

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How does modern poetry from Donne to Ashbery provide occasions for rethinking the scope and limits of the literary...  Read More >>

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The life and work of Katherine Mansfield, one of literary modernism's most significant writers.  Read More >>

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A chronological history of the literature of Wales in its two major languages (Welsh and English), this book covers...  Read More >>

Recovering Cervantes' career as an itinerant poet, this study presents a new theory of the modern novel as an organic...  Read More >>

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Uncovers the previously neglected links between the nineteenth-century American canon and twentieth-century Asian...  Read More >>

Examines the life-affirming and enchanting aspects of Woolf's and Rhys's modernism with feminist, affect and new...  Read More >>

This book explores Middle-Eastern adaptations of Greek tragedy in Europe and the Middle East from the turn of the...  Read More >>

The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception....  Read More >>

This new translation of Pindar’s songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility...  Read More >>

Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, this book reads multiple Chinese translations...  Read More >>

Examines the life and works of Ernest Hemingway through the lens of posthumanism.  Read More >>

This book provides an overview of the literary genre of Middle English lyrics, anonymous short poems that were composed...  Read More >>

Examines the way recent Irish poems interrogate the status of a place or being or phenomenon considered 'magic'....  Read More >>

Offering new and original approaches to the Roman civil wars of 49-30 BCE, the eleven papers presented here for...  Read More >>

The first, comparative study of white life writers who migrated to Britain from colonies and former colonies after...  Read More >>