Literary studies: general books

Published in 1925, The New Negro is an anthology of poems, stories, and essays by Black luminaries of the period,...  Read More >>

A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance presents a comprehensive collection of original essays that address the literature...  Read More >>

By detailing one of the most popular and significant cultural movements of the post-World War II era, readers will...  Read More >>

Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man (first published in 1926 and now re-edited after the discovery of an original...  Read More >>

Drawing on the contributions of scholars working on Italian, French, English, Ottoman Turkish, and Japanese tale...  Read More >>

This volume traces the evolution of the fairy tale over the period known as the long eighteenth century.  Read More >>

This volume explores the period when the European fairy tales conquered the world and shaped the global imagination...  Read More >>

Drawing together contributions from an international range of scholars in history, literature, and cultural studies,...  Read More >>

This volume presents the unabridged and annotated edition of more than 1000 annotations as well as four small drawings...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking new study examines how around 1100, a poetic renewal took hold of Latin writing that had decisive...  Read More >>

Der Band versammelt Studien zu Handschriften und den ältesten gedruckten Büchern, die in den Olmützer Gedächtnisinstitutionen...  Read More >>

This book explores the intricate and dynamic role of readers as witnesses, with a specific focus on Kurdish literature...  Read More >>

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With a focus on regions neglected in African Anglophone literature (such as Egypt, Libya, and Ethiopia), this book...  Read More >>

The first study of Anglo-Hispanic exchanges in print culture between the Spanish-American War and the Spanish Civil...  Read More >>

Long overshadowed by the campaign to exonerate the memory of Calas, the Sirven affair (1762-1772) has nonetheless,...  Read More >>

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This collection explores the relationship between letter writing and emotions through time, using case studies from...  Read More >>

Adopting a comparative approach, this book argues that many iconic 21st-century metaphors and images used to communicate...  Read More >>

This open access edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of scholars to investigate the concept of...  Read More >>

This open access edited volume brings together a team of linguists to explore how indigenized varieties of English...  Read More >>

Positioning fantasy fiction as a response to the ongoing crisis of representation in Western fiction, this book...  Read More >>

Exploring a range of twentieth and twenty-first century Marian prayer-poetry - prayer poems directed to or involving...  Read More >>

Exploring the ways nineteenth-century medicine and theology co-created modern perceptions of the impact of nutrition...  Read More >>

Offers an accessible translation and detailed commentary of Piccolomini's only comedy, Chrysis.  Read More >>