Literary studies: general books

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Simon Goldhill recounts the untold history of Cambridge's gay academic community and the remarkable impact that...  Read More >>

Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous...  Read More >>

This edited book examines three main understandings of the concept of modernity in relation to translation: “modernity...  Read More >>

Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova’s memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling meditation on...  Read More >>

A propulsive and lyrical version of ancient Mesopotamia’s greatest adventure–tale, by the bestselling translator...  Read More >>

Illuminates Bantock's experimentation with musical structure to create effective representations of literature,...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study to explore the unexamined afterlives of Petrarch’s 1347 Neo-Latin epic of the Second Punic...  Read More >>

An introduction to Terence’s Eunuchus, a dramaturgically complex play addressing questions of behaviour still relevant...  Read More >>

Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

""In Critical Failures, Miyabi Goto examines the rise of hihyåo, a practice of critical reading, in Japan's Meiji...  Read More >>

This book takes a literary geographical approach to the study of folklore, exploring the complex relationships between...  Read More >>

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How did Ottoman individuals and objects interact within the wider nineteenth-century world? The eleven essays from...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking study examines how Carroll's Victorian masterpieces and six major screen adaptations (1966-2016)...  Read More >>

What Love's Labor's Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and change Shakespeare...  Read More >>

This book examines Alexander Pope’s Dunciad, focusing on the role played by cultural periphery (what Pope called...  Read More >>

This is the first full-length study to explore how contemporary, Western manifestations of Sufism are represented...  Read More >>

Part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe, this volume presents the first fully annotated edition...  Read More >>

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Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über rhetorische Strategien, in zentralen literarischen Streitigkeiten des 18....  Read More >>

This book is a study of the impact of nineteenth-century popular literature on its contemporary society as well...  Read More >>

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>