Literary studies: general books

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and...  Read More >>

This book re-evaluates traditional narratives of 19th-century modernity by placing Black women at the center of...  Read More >>

Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the...  Read More >>

Furnishing a novel take on the poetry of the 1930s within the context of the cultural history of the Depression,...  Read More >>

This book shows how serials deployed the repetition of plots and the traumas representing the sources of women's...  Read More >>

This book frames transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on the interplay between metaphor, making and mysticism, and sheds new light on the power of...  Read More >>

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This book is for university teachers and students of modern American literature. By focusing on literature's relationship...  Read More >>

This landmark publication offers an expansive, detailed, and varied history of the Bloomsbury group's aesthetic,...  Read More >>

This book explores how poets navigate the dynamic concept of ‘home’ through language, memory, and experience. Examining...  Read More >>

In the shadow of medieval cathedrals, a revolutionary intellectual movement was taking shape that would transform...  Read More >>

In this timely contribution to debates over the relationship of politics to storytelling, Lee Manion uncovers the...  Read More >>

Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential...  Read More >>

This book explores the intricate and dynamic role of readers as witnesses, with a specific focus on Kurdish literature...  Read More >>

This book examines the evolution of the female lyric body in Western culture through the figure of Helen of Troy,...  Read More >>

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Through an interdisciplinary approach, this collection delves into the interplay between modernity and sacred traditions...  Read More >>

A user's guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises...  Read More >>

An updated stand-alone edition of Sophocles's Oedipus the King taken from Chicago's renowned translations of the...  Read More >>

Leer literatura es necesario para hacer frente a las múltiples crisis del Antropoceno. Leer con detenimiento, tomarse...  Read More >>

How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous...  Read More >>

A user's guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises...  Read More >>

The new incredible legal thriller from John Grisham.  Read More >>