Literary studies: general books

Through an in-depth analysis of wartime essays and literary works, Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean...  Read More >>

An interrogation of the poetry of Mazisi Kunene that places his work in the context of African literature and the...  Read More >>

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

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

Ancient philosophers developed a rich toolbox to better reach, teach, and affect their addressees or, indeed, practitioners,...  Read More >>

Bringing together an historian of political thought and a literary scholar, this book offers a historically wide-ranging...  Read More >>

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

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Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized...  Read More >>

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

This book explores a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking...  Read More >>

A collection of colourful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five...  Read More >>

Commentary on Plotinus, Volume 1: Ennead I contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and first translation...  Read More >>

A bracing feminist chronicle of the history of the West told through seven texts, exposing where our most virulent...  Read More >>

A scholarly exploration of the tension of spaces in African American Great Migration novels  Read More >>

Reading with Jane Austen rereads Austen's novels within the context of the rich Georgian literary culture that she...  Read More >>

A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London  Read More >>

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

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Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain  Read More >>

Exploring Edith Wharton's engagement with global issues in her life and writing Hailed for her remarkable social...  Read More >>

Through a wide variety of essays on language, history, politics, and culture in the works of James Joyce, this book...  Read More >>

This volume in offers a definitive account of newspaper and periodical press activity across Britain and Ireland...  Read More >>

A remarkable collection of Lyn Hejinian's previously uncollected early poems from 1963 to 1983  Read More >>