Literary studies: general books

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Using a case study, this Element explores the criticism and creativity generated by eighteenth-century periodicals...  Read More >>

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World Literature as Geoculture makes a case for studying literature in its most diverse manifestations as the cultural...  Read More >>

Insurgent Veins examines the decolonial ideological bridge between the early twentieth-century indigenista literary...  Read More >>

This book extensively investigates the integral nature of spatiality and spatial imagination in the works of Philip...  Read More >>

This book examines Mohja Kahf’s use of parody and allusion in E-mails from Scheherazad to deconstruct Orientalist...  Read More >>

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This third volume completes the text of this hagiographic collection by the fifteenth-century writer Osbern Bokenham....  Read More >>

How the word viscera is intrinsic to public discourses around civil war, fertility, and succession in Roman history...  Read More >>

What does 'Irish romanticism' mean and when did Ireland become romantic? Claire Connolly proposes an understanding...  Read More >>

A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book uses four stages in the story...  Read More >>

Writing the Mountains reconsiders the role of mountains in German language fiction from 1800 to the present and...  Read More >>

Tapping into the emergence of scholarly comedy studies since the 2000s, this collection brings new perspectives...  Read More >>

Using comparative analyses of source and target texts, Leone Anderson examines Jorge Luis Borges’s residual presence...  Read More >>

YOU WERE RIGHT TO FEEL EMPTY AFTER THAT ""MASTERPIECE."" Why does ""serious"" art so often leave us drained instead...  Read More >>

An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and proliferates...  Read More >>

Argues that 18th-century British literary writers deployed melancholic feeling to draw a complex web of relations...  Read More >>

Examines the connection between auditory perception and the formation of subjectivity and identity in 20th-century...  Read More >>

A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book uses four stages in the story...  Read More >>

Provides for the first time an inclusive and detailed view of C. P. Cavafy as a “World poet,” tracing his critical...  Read More >>

A study of the origins, nature and role of fantasy literature in early 19th century colonial India, this book explores...  Read More >>

The first book devoted to exploring Marcel Proust’s influence on Irish literature and Irish themes within his work...  Read More >>