Literary studies: general books

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and...  Read More >>

This book re-evaluates traditional narratives of 19th-century modernity by placing Black women at the center of...  Read More >>

Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the...  Read More >>

Furnishing a novel take on the poetry of the 1930s within the context of the cultural history of the Depression,...  Read More >>

This book shows how serials deployed the repetition of plots and the traumas representing the sources of women's...  Read More >>

This book frames transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts...  Read More >>

Wild Abandon serves scholars and students of American literature, environment, and postwar history. It chronicles...  Read More >>

Reiseliteratur erfährt im digitalen Zeitalter eine neue gesellschaftliche Relevanz, gibt es doch eine Vielzahl an...  Read More >>

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This book explores how poets navigate the dynamic concept of ‘home’ through language, memory, and experience. Examining...  Read More >>

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An invigorating pair of essays exploring exile, language and national identity from one of Europe's most celebrated...  Read More >>

This book reveals an original investigation of Renaissance literature and portraiture.  Read More >>

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

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Tradefull Merchants (1981) surveys the range of English literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries...  Read More >>

Through an interdisciplinary approach, this collection delves into the interplay between modernity and sacred traditions...  Read More >>

How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous...  Read More >>

A lively and thoughtful exploration of how book clubs change the way we read. In this engaging and vivacious memoir,...  Read More >>

A user's guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises...  Read More >>

Beyond The First Man follows the unfinished trajectory of Albert Camus with a clarity rarely attempted. Rather than...  Read More >>

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The new incredible legal thriller from John Grisham.  Read More >>