Literary studies: general books

Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse...  Read More >>

The first study of creative and cultural afterlives of Gulliver’s Travels produced over the past 3 centuries that...  Read More >>

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging critical survey of British fiction of the 1960s, from J.G. Ballard and Angela Carter to A.S. Byatt,...  Read More >>

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Drawing on new research, this wide-ranging book includes chapters by both scholars and performers. It gives proper...  Read More >>

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The first study of creative and cultural afterlives of Gulliver’s Travels produced over the past 3 centuries that...  Read More >>

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

In this first-ever account of the broadsheet ballads sold outside playhouses, Tiffany Stern reveals how ballads...  Read More >>

A long-overdue reappraisal of a groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social norms...  Read More >>

Focusing on the international circulation of culture and ideas by women in the early modern period through the long...  Read More >>

Through incisive analysis, Stacey McDowell shows how Romantic writers reflect on ideas about reading, revealing...  Read More >>

As one among few studies of Indian Ocean literature, this book will benefit scholars and students in humanistic...  Read More >>

Demonstrates William James's role in the history of Anglo-American literary production and the practice of literary...  Read More >>

Professors, high school teachers, novelists, anti-censorship advocates, and librarians confront and examine the...  Read More >>

Examining three of the most influential writers of the modern fantasy tradition, this book looks at how they engage...  Read More >>

Academic discourse on eyes has focused overwhelmingly on their visual function. Weeping Eyes turns instead to their...  Read More >>

Arguing against the reductive understanding of risk as negative possibility, this book shows how risk is a necessary...  Read More >>

What was the role of insects in defining the human during the British eighteenth century? Through close ecocritical...  Read More >>

First published in 1978, Beckett examines the plays of Beckett in the order in which they were written. The book...  Read More >>

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What exactly is Bhagavat Gita? Bhagawan Krishna delivered a long and learned speech to Arjuna, the ace, incomparable...  Read More >>