Literary studies: general books

In these 26 interviews, novelist Harry Crews discusses writing, literary influences, his fascination with so-called...  Read More >>

People living in the nineteenth-century United States saw shocking upheavals in both the economy and in ideas of...  Read More >>

Reconsiders major thinkers and works of German Idealism and their legacy for our own restless times.  Read More >>

This book is the first academic treatment of the poetry of Anton Schnack (1892-1973): his work is not well known,...  Read More >>

Offers an insider's view of the literary world of the Ottoman sultanate at its heyday, from the 1540s to the 1570s....  Read More >>

Explores Virginia Woolf as a transnational figure, her composite legacy and her impact in various cultural and political...  Read More >>

Explores the role of violence in relation to Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte's literary productions, receptions...  Read More >>

Providing a collection of E.S. Dallas's work, this volume explores the significance of the Scottish writer’s practical...  Read More >>

This book examines the public perception, scholarly reception, and critical analysis of Japan through translations...  Read More >>

First published in 1984, in this book the author uses over 100 short texts from educated writers to demonstrate...  Read More >>

First published in 1980, this volume examines English literature (1900-1930) within its socio-political context....  Read More >>

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Explores D. H. Lawrence's environmentalism and suggests new ways of reading his works in the Anthropocene.  Read More >>

This book is the most comprehensive work in English on premodern Japanese linked verse (renga).  Read More >>

This series of experiments in trans approaches to the study of the premodern book offers alternative ways into trans...  Read More >>

Questions Thomas Moore's association with cultural nationalism by tracing his interest in motion and the transatlantic....  Read More >>

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Traces the development of media concepts across scientific, legal, and devotional knowledge domains to offer a coherent...  Read More >>

A new account of premodern education that offered non-elite readers lessons in navigating the premodern marketplace...  Read More >>

How seventeenth-century English literary genres associated with gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure shaped representations...  Read More >>

Understanding Jonathan Swift's medical and literary life The Dean Disordered bridges biography and literary...  Read More >>

This is an annotated translation and discussion of Xiao Yi’s (508–555) “Xuanlan fu” (Fu on Perception of Profundity),...  Read More >>

An exploration of the global medievalism phenomenon of assigning remarkable female figures the title ""Joan of Arc,""...  Read More >>

This book explores the hidden histories offered by Greco-Roman myths of metamorphosis, and what they can reveal...  Read More >>

Explores Azeri Turkish literature to offer insights into the ideas of centralism, monolingualism and nationalism...  Read More >>