Literary studies: general books

The authoritative guide to the singular career and artistic legacy of one of America's most celebrated playwrights,...  Read More >>

With incisive purpose and clear-eyed nuance, West of the Ghetto showcases Jewish women writers' vital and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland's past and future Ireland was Britain's first colony and its first...  Read More >>

Breaks new ground in the study of world literature by analysing the genesis of this concept in the context of early...  Read More >>

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the great monuments of modern literature-admired, imitated, and...  Read More >>

Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening...  Read More >>

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  Read More >>

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the great monuments of modern literature-admired, imitated, and...  Read More >>

This book provides innovative, up-to-date essays about Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. Recognising herself as a child...  Read More >>

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A rethinking of the evolution of the British novel that departs from dominant narratives and argues for an importantly...  Read More >>

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  Read More >>

""Situates Chaucer's proverbs in their premodern cultural and intellectual contexts, arguing that Chaucer places...  Read More >>

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Remembering Revolutionary Women considers the afterlives of individual revolutionary women and proposes that to...  Read More >>

Reading the Racial Encounter engages constructions of race through the analysis of scenes of meeting or encounter...  Read More >>

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In recounting the fascinating history of how modern Irish writers politically, socially, and polemically organised...  Read More >>

Against an African, African American, and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement's backdrop, this book examines six African...  Read More >>

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This book explores how monsters articulate questions about the sacred in nineteenth-century Irish Gothic literature....  Read More >>

This timely book shows how complex narratives-from memoirs to propaganda-can illuminate and respond to ideologically...  Read More >>

Blending folklore studies, media theory, horror criticism and cultural geography, this collection charts an unprecedented...  Read More >>

New paperback edition - Sisters Jane and Cassandra Austen were inseparable and sought one anothers approval in all...  Read More >>

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