Literary studies: general books

This book is for people who want to learn about mass incarceration. It covers all of the major figures in prison...  Read More >>

The twenty-one sermons translated here were not, as was so often the case, exercises in belles-lettres but a sustained...  Read More >>

The most comprehensive collection of writing by award-winning US poet, renowned translator of Sappho, and trailblazing...  Read More >>

Correcting the misunderstood role of maxims at the intersection of early science and literature Eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

This is the first English translation of the ancient scholia to the Iliad, the richest and most extensive collection...  Read More >>

The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of colonialism, expansion,...  Read More >>

A daring literary fusion of pop culture and feminism, Swifterature captures the special connection between English...  Read More >>

Surveys the career of the influential Nobel-prize winning author Ernest Hemingway. Pays close attention to prose...  Read More >>

This book is for people who want to learn about mass incarceration. It covers all of the major figures in prison...  Read More >>

This book explores the representation of the first generations of women who studied at Oxford and Cambridge in popular...  Read More >>

How did a Scorpion become a constellation? Who lifted the Archer into the sky? Which timeless tales gave birth to...  Read More >>

“The Myth of George Eliot” shows how Marian Evans understood the power of collective stories to change society,...  Read More >>

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Exploring the ways the early modern Italian culture of food was imagined in the literature of the time, this text...  Read More >>

This book introduces new methods of research for studying the Alexiad, aiming primarily at analysing Anna Komnene's...  Read More >>

This book considers films that have experimented with new, increasingly complicated narrative approaches, including...  Read More >>

This book ties together social and medical history, Disability Studies, and Monster Studies to argue that people...  Read More >>

This book traces the meteoric trajectory of the Mexican Tenth Muse’s renown and studies how her worldly celebrity...  Read More >>

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. From 1942 to 1944, approximately...  Read More >>

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This study of ludic literary society in sixteenth-century France addresses Italianate practices of philosophical...  Read More >>