Literary studies: general books

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

""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 >>

Schon Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts wurden Parallelen zwischen dem kolloquialen Latein eines Plautus und der spätantiken...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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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 >>

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

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 >>

In Quest of a Cure explores the literary and medical cultures of European health resorts in the nineteenth and early...  Read More >>

Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late-medieval and early-modern English poets thought about the material...  Read More >>

This collective study of the James siblings--Alice, William, and Henry--lights up their shared intellectual project:...  Read More >>

Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in...  Read More >>