Literary studies: general books

This selection of short, engaging essays examines and explains key terms that Jane Austen repeatedly drew on in...  Read More >>

Dyma gyfrol gyfoethog o ysgrifau’n ymwneud ag amrywiol agweddau ar lenyddiaeth Gymraeg a Cheltaidd, ac sy’n talu...  Read More >>

In der Debatte über Digitalisierung sind Techniken und Praktiken des digitalen Lesens zu einem viel diskutierten...  Read More >>

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This is the first book-length study of the poetry and journal writings ofGillian Clarke in their entirety; it is...  Read More >>

Using an ecocritical lens to broaden the scope of Hemingway studies, this book unpacks Hemingway’s unique perspective...  Read More >>

Drawing on a significant literary corpus from Europe and the Global South, this book examines how post-1945 novelists...  Read More >>

This volume explores the significance of schadenfreude in Greek literature and culture from the archaic period to...  Read More >>

This volume offers an investigation of Martial's engagement with Roman epigraphic habits and proposes a new interpretation...  Read More >>

This edited collection reimagines the coming-of-age genre, exploring youth, identity, and belonging in narratives...  Read More >>

This is the first book-length study of Covid fictions in Britain. It argues that although it was common to see the...  Read More >>

The age of Enlightenment was also an age of development of sporting and physical activities. This book studies the...  Read More >>

In the ancient world, theatre was one of the main factors of social interaction, spreading political, religious,...  Read More >>

This volume is the first extended investigation of the classicism of José Rizal (1861-1896), the de facto national...  Read More >>

Theorising Oliver Jeffers’ Picturebooks examines semiotic, affective, and metafictive storytelling in Oliver Jeffers’...  Read More >>

This book examines how writers of the Republican era (1912–1949) came to recognize and respond to “information.”...  Read More >>

This book reveals how modernists turned to the Middle Passage—and, in so doing, upended Western ideas about time...  Read More >>

Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers...  Read More >>

This book examines arguments, tropes, and figures that formed anti-Jesuit literature in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...  Read More >>

Historian and novelist Song WooHye chronicles the life of Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945), one of the most beloved and important...  Read More >>

In 1877, the atmosphere in Russia was highly contentious. Amid war with the Ottoman Empire, the nation was also...  Read More >>

Illustrated with over 40 art pieces from the British Library's collections. An authoritative guide, written by a...  Read More >>

""A collection of essays that illuminate and connect the shared concerns and conversation of philosophers, historians,...  Read More >>

Early Modern expansionism and its aftermaths constitute a biopolitical laboratory, measuring social and individual...  Read More >>

For centuries, scribes and users have left notes in the margins of manuscripts. This volume examines commentary...  Read More >>