Literary studies: general books

This collective study of the James siblings--Alice, William, and Henry--lights up their shared intellectual project:...  Read More >>

Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? This book explains...  Read More >>

Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a friendly and readable style....  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern...  Read More >>

Through his journals (19351950), Cesare Pavese opens a door into his life as one of Italy's most influential writers....  Read More >>

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Praktiken, Verfahren und Episteme des Selfpublishings in Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaft treten heute konkurrierend...  Read More >>

This book is a phenomenological study of the crime fiction of Benjamin Black and John Banville, including novels...  Read More >>

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W.H. Auden once remarked that the complete œuvre of Jean Cocteau could fill a warehouse. Over the course of his...  Read More >>

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Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a friendly and readable style....  Read More >>

This book offers the first critical edition and English translation of Vincenzo Figliucci’s Stanze sopra le stelle...  Read More >>

An exploration and insightful analysis of sisters in literature and their depiction in three centuries of the novel....  Read More >>

This Handbook deals with textual criticism of Greek and Latin literature and of ancient documents (inscriptions,...  Read More >>

Richard Barnfield was an Elizabethan writer and poet and author of the most overtly queer poetry of the English...  Read More >>

This book illuminates the extent to which the thought of modernist authors resonated with the affective legacy of...  Read More >>

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An exploration of Stephen King's writing from the first academic granted full access to King's archives.  Read More >>

This book on translation borrows from the introduction to Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. It will interest...  Read More >>

Using John Ireland's fascination with Arthur Machen as case study, this book challenges our perception of the correspondence...  Read More >>

An exploration of Stephen King's writing from the first academic granted full access to King's archives.  Read More >>

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Edward Lear as Victorian Modernist offers a bold new reading of Lear’s limericks as foundational works of literary...  Read More >>