Literary studies: general books

Presenting the first-edition text of Far from the Madding Crowd for the first time since its 1874 publication, this...  Read More >>

Close Reading and Its Alternatives provides an up-to-date history of the literary and analytical technique and philosophy...  Read More >>

Geometries of Empathy offers a new take on the contemporary Anglophone novel through the much-contested problem...  Read More >>

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

A new history of literary narration rooted in the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation. We often identify secularization's...  Read More >>

Introduction to the Attribution of Literature describes the first unbiased and accessible authorship attribution...  Read More >>

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

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A major literary biography of America's best-loved nineteenth-century poet, the first in more than fifty years,...  Read More >>

""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 >>