Literary studies: general books

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as...  Read More >>

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

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

Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

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

Insightful essays explore a prolific writer’s vast work of novels, plays and journalism, addressing issues of feminism,...  Read More >>

With incisive purpose and clear-eyed nuance, West of the Ghetto showcases Jewish women writers' vital and wide-ranging...  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 >>

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

Offers a compelling new study of failure and neoliberalism in contemporary American literature.  Read More >>

Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature.  Read More >>

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

Reassesses Cartesian subjectivity as an important critical lens for the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries....  Read More >>

Examines the connections between J. M. Coetzee's work and Hispanic literatures and cultures, especially in the Southern...  Read More >>

Combining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of ""the...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

This compelling book offers a fresh and insightful contribution to the interrelated fields of book history and literary...  Read More >>

The first book to focus on the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass and their impact on Black organizing A robust...  Read More >>

In this survey of foundational theory on James Joyce's Ulysses, seasoned Joyceans introduce the methodologies that...  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 >>

Bringing together nineteen essays from leading specialists in poetics and American music, this collection offers...  Read More >>

The 1810s are often overlooked as a transitional time between Romantic and Victorian literature and culture. The...  Read More >>

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This book, underpinned by a database, demonstrates that rhyme is not a superficial decorative feature but rather...  Read More >>

The four prose tracts Milton published from 1643 to 1645 on divorce constitute an underappreciated body of work...  Read More >>