Literary studies: general books

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Argues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an...  Read More >>

Examines the ambivalent, often critical relationship of the New York School poets to bureaucratic culture and the...  Read More >>

From the bodies rotting by the wayside in Famine fiction, Synge’s sodden corpses and Joyce’s dead, to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s...  Read More >>

An exciting topological foray into Romantic textuality, Fantastic Shapes shows how poetic form participates in a...  Read More >>

A new, multi-faceted collection of studies of the structural, narrative, and symbolic functions of time and space...  Read More >>

This collection of essays offers perspectives on the play’s early life as well as creates a major theoretical framework...  Read More >>

It defines a magical or occult poetics in terms of the willingness of a poet to entertain a magical worldview for...  Read More >>

This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval...  Read More >>

This open access book examines how Indigenous authors from the Soviet North reflect the impact of Soviet settler...  Read More >>

Organized thematically, the chapters compare these authors’ novels in relation to the dehumanised body, bodies of...  Read More >>

This book examines drone warfare – primarily understood now as an issue of technology, military strategy, and law...  Read More >>

This book examines William Blake as a ‘mystic’ and the movements and authors that contributed to this definition...  Read More >>

This book explores the popular writing of the New Humourists and their vital engagement with late Victorian conceptions...  Read More >>

Nature's ability to satisfy deep human needs is familiar to anyone who has hiked up a mountain, canoed a river,...  Read More >>

Delve into the vibrant landscape of 19th-century English poetry with ""The belle of a season,"" a captivating work...  Read More >>

""The works of Thomas Middleton: Volume 2 of 5"" offers an indispensable collection from one of the Jacobean era's...  Read More >>

""The Little Review, January 1917 (Vol. 3, No. 8)"" offers an essential journey into the heart of 20th-century literature...  Read More >>

Step back into the vibrant literary world of the early 20th century with 'The Little Review, May, 1917 (Vol. 4,...  Read More >>

""The Little Review, September 1916 (Vol. 3, No. 6)"" offers a vital glimpse into the vibrant literary landscape...  Read More >>

The first edited essay collection of its kind to focus on innovators and innovations in the mass-market press from...  Read More >>

Explores the relationship between radical poetry and radical politics from the formation of the welfare state to...  Read More >>

Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties...  Read More >>

Analyses how the political career of Sir Thomas Overbury exposes the changing systems of power at the English court...  Read More >>

Examines the role occupied by the senses and the self in approaches to literary mimesis in nineteenth-century European...  Read More >>