Literary studies: general books

Eliot’s career was influenced by concrete historical and biographical circumstances who played a decisive role as...  Read More >>

In Sensibility, originally published in 1986, Janet Todd charts the growth and decline of sentimental writing as...  Read More >>

In ""Blind, Lame, and Paralyzed,"" author Alander Pulliam delves into the profound truths behind the spiritual and...  Read More >>

In a world devastated by the cataclysm of war, two extraordinary authors and friends, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S....  Read More >>

A quietly powerful exploration of memory and forgetting, from one of France's leading feminist public intellectuals...  Read More >>

Modeling a new way of writing the past while experiencing ourselves more fully in time, Maia Kotrosits offers a...  Read More >>

This transdisciplinary study expands on theories of theatricality beyond performance studies and into poetry, media...  Read More >>

This book explores how our physical experiences shape our understanding of health, disease, and illness, revealing...  Read More >>

""Examines how biblical texts construct boundaries between human and nonhuman entities. Using critical theories...  Read More >>

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Reading Children’s Fairytales: Inside the Gingerbread House brings...  Read More >>

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""This book tells the story of how Victorians experienced the virtual images created by modern optical media. It...  Read More >>

This book is a study in cultural collegiality and interchange. Over the course of a long life, Thomas Mann established...  Read More >>

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""This book tells the story of how Victorians experienced the virtual images created by modern optical media. It...  Read More >>

The latest entry in the Yale Oriental Series presents descriptions, translations, and commentary for tablets and...  Read More >>

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

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

The Guermantes Way is the third volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important...  Read More >>

Published in 1925, The New Negro is an anthology of poems, stories, and essays by Black luminaries of the period,...  Read More >>

These three plays tell a fascinating and heartbreaking story, introduce a new playwright (Laura Kieler) to the world,...  Read More >>

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