Literary studies: general books

Blending folklore studies, media theory, horror criticism and cultural geography, this collection charts an unprecedented...  Read More >>

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Exploring diverse texts amid climate change, pandemics, and struggles over rights, the essays offer innovative approaches...  Read More >>

Nicole M. Morris Johnson analyzes the intertwined relationship between movement and writing in the works of Zora...  Read More >>

How the classic aesthetic of 1960s pulp comics influenced art, culture, and politics.  Read More >>

Unprinted redefines reading in early modern Iberia through a critical discussion of manuscript culture, material...  Read More >>

Whether you're a lifelong book lover or a curious traveller, this guide is the perfect companion to discovering...  Read More >>

Oscar Wilde's Paris explores Wilde's connection with the French capital from his rise to fame to his eventual exile...  Read More >>

Lyric Temporalities explores how lyric a form of poetry often concerned with an insistently present experience...  Read More >>

Dilapidated dramas. The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with Marcus Pacuvius...  Read More >>

Nicole M. Morris Johnson analyzes the intertwined relationship between movement and writing in the works of Zora...  Read More >>

'Recovering Lost Voices' explores what recovery work looks like in the twenty-first century and why its continued...  Read More >>

George Orwell: His Life and Legacy by Robert Colls is an intellectual biography which offers an original account...  Read More >>

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville...  Read More >>

Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947) recounts the life of a solitary composer, Adrian Leverkühn, whose personal and...  Read More >>

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing is the first dedicated study of British and Irish...  Read More >>

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

A cultural and social critique of early-twentieth-century America, addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class and...  Read More >>

Henry James was a leading commentator on the art of his time. Readers of this complete collection of his nonfictional...  Read More >>

Henry James is a highly readable commentator on the theatre and performance practices of his time. Readers of this...  Read More >>

This book shows how novels and films set in the near future can shed light both on our failures of imagination before...  Read More >>

This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first...  Read More >>

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Book VII is a pivotal book in Herodotus' Histories. It brings together many of the work's themes and contains the...  Read More >>