Literary studies: general books

This book charts the broad cultural impact of the medieval and early modern female performer: how she engages with...  Read More >>

""In ancient Greek comedy, nothing is ever 'just a joke'. This book treats jokes with the seriousness they deserve,...  Read More >>

Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Beyond the Shelley Circle: The Clairmont Family and Its Descendants will interest Shelley–circle researchers, life-writing...  Read More >>

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This book explores the construction of the fin-de-siècle adventure hero: set against a romanticised vision of the...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney offers an in-depth examination of one of the most influential contemporary...  Read More >>

A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine...  Read More >>

This book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the...  Read More >>

mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"">By centering the voices of individuals reflecting on their aging experiences,...  Read More >>

Shows how classical ideas and material helped to shape the modern world. This book rethinks the characterization...  Read More >>

This book reconstructs the conflicting meanings of 'equivocation' to understand the gripping complexity of how writers,...  Read More >>

This volume oversees the fluctuating, but close relationship of motherhood studies, maternal theory and feminism...  Read More >>

Over the past two decades, the events of September 11, 2001, have inspired a range of literary responses, as American...  Read More >>

This year's volume features special sections on gambling in the Age of Goethe and on Goethe and music, as well as...  Read More >>

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World Literature combines theoretical explorations and pedagogy to explore approaches to teaching some of the key...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive study of Rome's relationship with the kingdom and city of Pergamon (modern-day Bergama in...  Read More >>

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French novelist, literary critic, and essayist, Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was one of the most prominent authors...  Read More >>

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This Very Short Introduction aims to show the extraordinary sophistication and self-awareness of Eliot's fiction,...  Read More >>

World Literature combines theoretical explorations and pedagogy to explore approaches to teaching some of the key...  Read More >>

Anne Le Fèvre Dacier (1645-1720) was the most important woman of letters of her time and Of the Causes of the Corruption...  Read More >>

From 'Is there Sex Before Marriage in Austen?' to 'Which important Austen characters never speak?' the Guardian...  Read More >>