Literary studies: general books

This is a collection of seminal papers by the late Michael Frede on an important period in philosophical history,...  Read More >>

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In Monstrosity, Alienation and Impossibility of Communication in J. M. Coetzee's Novels, readers embark on a profound...  Read More >>

A major new interpretation of translations of the classics in Tudor England, showing how they applied ancient Greek...  Read More >>

Argues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an...  Read More >>

With La nostalgia ferita [Wounded Nostalgia], Eugenio Borgna develops another term in his personal lexicon of emotion....  Read More >>

This is the first book to cover the evolution and scope of Aldous Huxley’s socio-political ideas in a concise and...  Read More >>

Organized thematically, the chapters compare these authors’ novels in relation to the dehumanised body, bodies of...  Read More >>

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This book encounters the figure of the royal woman in the early modern period and explores how she enables and complicates...  Read More >>

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This book provides a brief scholarly introduction to A Game of Thrones, the first volume of George R. R. Martin's...  Read More >>

This open access book examines how Indigenous authors from the Soviet North reflect the impact of Soviet settler...  Read More >>

This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout...  Read More >>

This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval...  Read More >>

Predramatic Theatre offers a fresh, innovative account of the drama of the period prior to the building of the professional...  Read More >>

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R. L. Stevenson’s life and writing, reflecting a restless mind in a global age.  Read More >>

From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience...  Read More >>

While comics published in twentieth-century China have enjoyed extensive coverage, this volume showcases recent...  Read More >>

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Analyses how the political career of Sir Thomas Overbury exposes the changing systems of power at the English court...  Read More >>

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