Literary studies: general books

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

Christ's war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution...  Read More >>

This book explores why stories of Latin American violence are commonplace. These stories are often set in exotic...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development...  Read More >>

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

This definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics,...  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

The first collection to systematically combine the vibrant fields of memory and affect in early modern studies,...  Read More >>

Two centuries after Percy Shelley's death, his writings still resonate with pressing societal issues. This collection...  Read More >>

This book traces the origins of using sea journeys to treat mental illness, a practice recommended within the medical...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking volume delves into a diverse selection of trans-themed children’s and adolescent literature...  Read More >>

Challenging the view of autofiction as a hybrid of autobiography and the novel, this book redefines it as a mode...  Read More >>

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

This volume presents a newly edited text of Euripides' Electra with a scene-by-scene and line-by-line commentary....  Read More >>

The series explores the complexity and the interconnections of arts and languages by merging, comparing and contrasting...  Read More >>

Medieval book ornament is a rapidly developing field of research. In the last decade, the various materials and...  Read More >>

This book is the first comprehensive critical introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant...  Read More >>

Millennium transcends boundaries - between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the journal Millennium-Jahrbuch,...  Read More >>

Adapting The Tempest: Explorations in Ecophenomenology examines five female-authored novelizations of The Tempest,...  Read More >>

This innovative study examines literary censorship in China from 1900 to present. Literature and Censorship in Modern...  Read More >>

This book is the first comprehensive critical introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant...  Read More >>

Irish literary studies has long subordinated the nineteenth century to the experimental triumphs of Irish modernism,...  Read More >>

This collection of essays investigates both the elements that locate Israeli speculative fiction in relation to...  Read More >>

This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986...  Read More >>

Izumi Kyōka’s influence on modern literature of the fantastic  Read More >>