Literary studies: general books

Exploring 18th-century medicine's construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as ""hermaphrodites"",...  Read More >>

Presents original archival research on eight largely unknown émigré translators whose work during the Cold War actively...  Read More >>

Administration and Economy in Early Babylonian Society unlocks 4,000-year-old business records from Mesopotamia,...  Read More >>

This book theorizes the slave ship as a unique site for the imaginative and material convergence of abolitionism...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between music and emotion in the Caroline theatre. Music could be ravishing,...  Read More >>

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In Print for the Pocket, Madeline Zehnder examines how nineteenth-century Americans understood a common but often...  Read More >>

Blood of Others offers a cultural history of Crimea and the Black Sea region, one of Europe's most volatile flashpoints,...  Read More >>

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

An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction’s power to intervene in the social, political, and environmental...  Read More >>

Exploring Romantic writers' free and imaginative confrontation with eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century scientific...  Read More >>

This is the first book to identify and trace a theme of old age running throughout T.S. Eliot’s oeuvre. Previously...  Read More >>

Die Gründerin der Internationalen Jugendbibliothek Jella Lepman (1891-1970) gehört zu den prägenden Persönlichkeiten...  Read More >>

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Taking an innovative approach to the study of religious literature and literary modernity, this book examines an...  Read More >>

Explores Bengal> 's political, social, and cultural history through Rabindranath Tagore> 's music and ideas. Using...  Read More >>

Redefining Faith in Dante’s ""Divine Comedy"" offers a bold reinterpretation of one of the world’s most studied...  Read More >>

History has shown that antisemitism reactivates and rises like a latent viral infection at the slightest crisis...  Read More >>

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A popular novelist and literary blogger answers those who claim the classics are too difficult, too problematic,...  Read More >>

Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action...  Read More >>

Russo-Soviet imperialist hauntings conceptualizes neo-Gothic texts from the former Eastern Bloc countries and Soviet...  Read More >>

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