Literary studies: general books

This book explores the growing body of multimodal literary texts: books that creatively experiment with the potential...  Read More >>

This edition of Apuleius's fragmentary works presents sixty-two items, along with a larger set of dubious items,...  Read More >>

Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction explores how narrative language renders subjective states of...  Read More >>

To coincide with the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth in 2025, The Worlds of Jane Austen explores the themes...  Read More >>

Pregnancy and the Novel is a study of covert representations of pregnancy and birth in canonical eighteenth- and...  Read More >>

Essais critiques sur Rousseau, Balzac ou Zola, accusés d'avoir façonné la décadence moderne. Provocative essays...  Read More >>

James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and...  Read More >>

Drawing on transcultural perspectives, it adds nuance to contemporary discourses on the “Muslim question” in Europe...  Read More >>

It re-evaluates magical realism in response to its enduring popularity in 21st century transnational fiction. Challenging...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1969, Shaw – “The Chucker Out” quotes much entirely new and previously unpublished Shaw...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1920, The Quintessence of Bernard Shaw, the title a play on Shaw’s own essay The Quintessence...  Read More >>

It was Shaw’s general contention that all great art was didactic; it was his specific contention that he wrote plays...  Read More >>

First published in 1972, Shaw’s plays are examined as self-contained imaginative structures intended for theatrical...  Read More >>

This book is the first comprehensive study of Yuan Zhen’s (779–831) twelve New Music Bureau poems in comparison...  Read More >>

From the pre-Islamic Jahilia, early modern Sikri and Florence, to postcolonial Bombay and Karachi, cities have played...  Read More >>

How Renaissance writers and artists with disabilities engaged with consolatory literature to relate to their lived...  Read More >>

From the pre-Islamic Jahilia, early modern Sikri and Florence, to postcolonial Bombay and Karachi, cities have played...  Read More >>

What Has Been, originally published in 1801, is an affecting, lively, and accessible read for scholars and students...  Read More >>

By Consent Alone reveals how medieval German literature responded to the evolving laws of marriage and consent in...  Read More >>

This book tracks the rise of modern cultural regionalism across the turn of the nineteenth century. Regional Romanticism...  Read More >>

This volume addresses the notion of wandering in English-speaking literary modernism. Focusing on the interwar period,...  Read More >>

Two sparkling satirical novels by Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle and Gryll Grange lampoon the intellectual...  Read More >>

Bram Stoker Awards® winning author Sadie Hartmann is back with a brand-new collection of curated recommendations,...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary volume investigates Hong Kong’s cultural and political strategies of realignment and the...  Read More >>

Volume 7 is a companion to the preceding volume, “The Fruits of Autumn.” As such, it offers a rich trove of explanatory...  Read More >>