Literary studies: general books

This book takes a literary geographical approach to the study of folklore, exploring the complex relationships between...  Read More >>

Unprinted redefines reading in early modern Iberia through a critical discussion of manuscript culture, material...  Read More >>

Lyric Temporalities explores how lyric a form of poetry often concerned with an insistently present experience...  Read More >>

Whether you're a lifelong book lover or a curious traveller, this guide is the perfect companion to discovering...  Read More >>

Nicole M. Morris Johnson analyzes the intertwined relationship between movement and writing in the works of Zora...  Read More >>

'Recovering Lost Voices' explores what recovery work looks like in the twenty-first century and why its continued...  Read More >>

A new translation into English by G. J. Racz of José Hernández's long narrative poems The Gaucho Martín Fierro and...  Read More >>

George Orwell: His Life and Legacy by Robert Colls is an intellectual biography which offers an original account...  Read More >>

Considering poetry, narrative, and performances from diverse oral societies and the earliest scribal cultures, Ethics...  Read More >>

Part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe, this volume presents the first fully annotated edition...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary volume asserts the ongoing and changing role of religion in Irish culture. Offering new perspectives...  Read More >>

This book offers a reading of Montaigne's Essais through the prism of visual art, chiefly the notion of 'design'...  Read More >>

This is the first in-depth study exploring the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists--including...  Read More >>

Considering poetry, narrative, and performances from diverse oral societies and the earliest scribal cultures, Ethics...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking book offers a fresh perspective on classical Chinese literature. Using literary sociology, it...  Read More >>

This book offers a panoramic review of the translation and academic study of Chinese classics spanning philosophy,...  Read More >>

Against the backdrop of cultural exchange between China’s Central Plains and Western Regions during the Sui, Tang,...  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947) recounts the life of a solitary composer, Adrian Leverkühn, whose personal and...  Read More >>

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing is the first dedicated study of British and Irish...  Read More >>

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

A cultural and social critique of early-twentieth-century America, addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class and...  Read More >>