Literary studies: general books

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

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

From one of our leading biographers and critics comes an exhilarating, landmark new look at Muriel Spark – shortlisted...  Read More >>

The Innocent Midwest explores how the Midwest came to symbolize innocence in American culture. Through literature...  Read More >>

This book offers an ambitious reassessment of the post-Petrarchan tradition. Elegantly and lucidly written, it examines...  Read More >>

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News Machines rewrites the history of nineteenth-century daily newspapers using theories developed for the study...  Read More >>

This book examines the archetypical and best-known neoclassical painter in France from a different perspective,...  Read More >>

Contesting Translation honors Professor Mona Baker with eleven chapters exploring translation across contexts and...  Read More >>

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

New Left Comics examines the leftist radicalization in Sweden during the decade immediately succeeding 1968 through...  Read More >>

This book brings into conversation perspectives from the disciplines of history, literary studies, archival studies...  Read More >>

‘Dazzling … one fine day, you open a book by an unknown writer, and a charge of pure talent blows you away’ La...  Read More >>

Charting a history of theatrical resistance to environmental exploitation, this study places Australian theatre...  Read More >>

Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1992, Le Bel Inconnu edited and with an introduction by Karen Fresco, presents on facing...  Read More >>

Contesting Translation honors Professor Mona Baker with eleven chapters exploring translation across contexts and...  Read More >>

This book presents a fresh approach to the writing of legal history as an essentially textual enterprise. It argues...  Read More >>

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This book explores a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking...  Read More >>

This book analyzes contemporary Anglophone road narratives from a transcultural perspective. By bringing together...  Read More >>

Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles...  Read More >>

A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different...  Read More >>

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

Red Missionaries explores the communication strategies of French and German Socialist parties during the inter-war...  Read More >>