Literary studies: general books

Tracing the linkages between the postcolonial bildungsroman and spatial discourses, this volume emphasizes three...  Read More >>

A uniquely comprehensive, groundbreaking two-volume study of Loy's relationship to the human body and soul.  Read More >>

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""This book examines the writings and experimental film collaborations of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson,...  Read More >>

Provides a first-hand account of the revolutionary politics and culture of 1970s Tehran.  Read More >>

ABOUT THE BOOK This book has an absolute lack of literary and academic value but it can be a diamond for those...  Read More >>

Develops a new approach to the politics of reproduction in literature and film.  Read More >>

A scholarly edition of William Barnes's Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect as published in the Dorset County...  Read More >>

Situates the works, legend and reception of the Renaissance poet and politician John Milton within the network of...  Read More >>

Studies literary and cinematic representations of sex work in Cambodia and Vietnam to rethink claims about the 'truth'...  Read More >>

A queer, postcolonial reading of twentieth-century Irish women's writing.  Read More >>

This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history...  Read More >>

Beowulf tells of a legendary hero who battles monstrous foes, exploring courage, honor, and mortality in one of...  Read More >>

Refocuses Sylvia Plath's affiliations with 'the occult' on the legacies of the early modern witch trials. Drawing...  Read More >>

This contextual guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra highlights the ways in which the play was shaped by...  Read More >>

This commentary offers a close reading of one of the most famous ancient texts, Herodotus' Histories. It focuses...  Read More >>

In a world of religious rivalries and state collapse, how did the looming spectre of the barbarian show what it...  Read More >>

First published in 1914, Joseph Conrad's female-centred, uncharacteristically optimistic Chance represented a new...  Read More >>

This gripping history offers a unique understanding of the pervasive influence of nationalism in both politics and...  Read More >>

To Be Continued discusses forms of creating narrative continuation, such as adventure, parody, the saga format,...  Read More >>

In The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini reimagines Dante’s descent into Hell not as allegory but as lived, historical reality—urban,...  Read More >>

Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova’s memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling meditation on...  Read More >>

Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who...  Read More >>

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing was published in 1917 (and republished in 1922) as a result of an adaptation by Asa Don...  Read More >>