Literary studies: general books

The perfect gift for the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fan, The Complete Sherlock Holmes is an elegant edition boasting...  Read More >>

The four prose tracts Milton published from 1643 to 1645 on divorce constitute an underappreciated body of work...  Read More >>

This book, underpinned by a database, demonstrates that rhyme is not a superficial decorative feature but rather...  Read More >>

Interdisciplinary study of the medieval commentary tradition, covering a range of sources from the Wycliffite Bible...  Read More >>

Uncovers a vibrant literary culture often overlooked by colonial historiography and Anglocentric critical traditions....  Read More >>

Around 1700, England saw a heated public debate about the soul's immortality. Two unlikely figures--a lawyer and...  Read More >>

Using samples taken from translations of Thucydides' influential History of the Peloponnesian War, the book argues...  Read More >>

A scholarly exploration of the tension of spaces in African American Great Migration novels  Read More >>

Reading Better States traces the persistence of desires for the postcolonial state in an era of environmental harms...  Read More >>

A collection of works by one of twentieth-century Morocco’s greatest writers Appearing for the first time in...  Read More >>

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

Commitment Ingrained in Loss: Subjugation, Dislocation and Trauma in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro offers a profound...  Read More >>

From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, a collection...  Read More >>

Haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been...  Read More >>

The book explores how Catholicism operates in Seamus Heaney's poetry at the level of a felt sense. It is written...  Read More >>

In Other Words, the definitive translation coursebook for three decades, offers practical guidance based on linguistic...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of the classical influence on Hungarian culture in the 19th and 20th century, exploring issues...  Read More >>

Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of...  Read More >>

Through an extensive series of extracts and accompanying interpretative and contextual essays, this open access...  Read More >>

Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s...  Read More >>

The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his...  Read More >>

A long overdue examination of Rubén Darío's multilingual work and influences alongside the contexts and politics...  Read More >>

Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social...  Read More >>

Fills a gap in comparative studies, interrogating strategies of Empire in dominating the Indigenous and linking...  Read More >>

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also...  Read More >>