Literary studies: general books

Contextualises modernist-era feminist writings of Beatrice Hastings and Katherine Mansfield in The New Age magazine....  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Considers relationships between modernist literature and literary criticism and argues that new modernist fiction...  Read More >>

A thorough examination of four Peruvian intellectuals who found inspiration in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's work...  Read More >>

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in the Odyssey to better understand...  Read More >>

These letters between Theodore Dreiser, pioneer of literary realism, and the actress and artist Kyra Markham (born...  Read More >>

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

Examines Scottish Romantic writers' shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead  Read More >>

King Arthur legends spark enduring debates about leadership, love, and community, weaving medieval texts with modern...  Read More >>

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Galicia as a Literary Idea explores the relationship of Jewish tradition and modernity in literary works by Joseph...  Read More >>

Offers a compelling new study of failure and neoliberalism in contemporary American literature.  Read More >>

Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature.  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Combining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of ""the...  Read More >>

This compelling book offers a fresh and insightful contribution to the interrelated fields of book history and literary...  Read More >>

The first book to focus on the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass and their impact on Black organizing A robust...  Read More >>

Reassesses Cartesian subjectivity as an important critical lens for the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries....  Read More >>

Examines the connections between J. M. Coetzee's work and Hispanic literatures and cultures, especially in the Southern...  Read More >>

Scholarly essays examine the enduring allure of Arthurian legends—from medieval texts to modern adaptations across...  Read More >>

Leading scholars take stock of McCarthy's final novels, illuminating the arc of his career, influence, and legacy...  Read More >>

This book explores the fiction of the French writer François Rabelais (d. 1553) and its engagement with the seemingly...  Read More >>

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

Acclaimed author and translator Sophus Helle considers an ancient creation story with themes of humanity, class...  Read More >>