Literary studies: general books

In Britain, the parameters of citizenship and its reciprocal relations shifted dramatically during and after the...  Read More >>

This book aims to explore the history and evolution of the bildungsroman genre by moving beyond its traditional...  Read More >>

This book is the first to examine understandings and experiences of fatness in early modern Europe (c. 1450-1700),...  Read More >>

Demonstrates the formative influence of Arab nationalist thought on Arabic literature since decolonization. It is...  Read More >>

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Through an in-depth analysis of wartime essays and literary works, Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean...  Read More >>

An interrogation of the poetry of Mazisi Kunene that places his work in the context of African literature and the...  Read More >>

Bringing together an historian of political thought and a literary scholar, this book offers a historically wide-ranging...  Read More >>

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

From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience...  Read More >>

This book explores a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking...  Read More >>

Ovid's Metamorphoses and its lasting impact on visual art The Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses is among the most...  Read More >>

Approaches Italian American literature from new critical perspectives and explores contemporary and understudied...  Read More >>

Considers how a series of poets reimagined the possibilities of ""O"" as a gesture of apostrophe and, even more...  Read More >>

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence  Read More >>

This is the first book-length, interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between animals and the rational...  Read More >>

In Irish Anthropocene, Malcolm Sen traces the ways in which contemporary Irish literature is deeply engaged with...  Read More >>

Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature explores how normative ideas of sex and gender have shaped the development...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English tests theories of word order change...  Read More >>

Fascinating conversations with a leading twentieth century literary critic, author, and cultural gadfly.  Read More >>

This book explores the eighteenth-century concept of “mentorship” in literary works, founded on voluntary, reciprocal...  Read More >>

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change...  Read More >>

""In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of...  Read More >>