Literary studies: general books

When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between literature and philosophy.  Read More >>

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Following the concept of multiple modernities, the contributors to the volume view modernity as a meta-cultural...  Read More >>

This book explores the connections between the body and narrative across the early modern world. It examines how...  Read More >>

The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett...  Read More >>

This book follows a close textual analysis approach and offers a discussion of love as portrayed in ‘Modern’ popular...  Read More >>

Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict goes...  Read More >>

English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century discusses the valuable fiction written in mid-nineteenth...  Read More >>

How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action?...  Read More >>

This co-edited collection breaks new ground by bringing together...  Read More >>

In times that are rife with complex manifestations of identity politics, writing classrooms across the world are...  Read More >>

Comprehensive and comparative, this volume investigates African American street novelists from the Chicago Black...  Read More >>

The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels studies how the detective as a literary character evolved...  Read More >>

Comparing Lawrence’s texts to various major and minor contemporary novels, journal articles, political pamphlets...  Read More >>

Presenting an exploration of education as “the edge of experience,” this book investigates how unassimilable concepts...  Read More >>

This research individuates uncanny-related narrative techniques and cognitive responses as means to decodify and...  Read More >>

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth Century French Literature and Medicine offers a new way of conceptualizing...  Read More >>

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics...  Read More >>

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This book is a collection of papers on Frankish historiography in the Merovingian and early Carolingian periods,...  Read More >>

Questo libro si inserisce in una macro-area di studi che esplora la letteratura come modalità conoscitiva e i suoi...  Read More >>

An exploration of the mind of one of America's most beloved Founding Fathers and most brilliant minds, through the...  Read More >>