Literary studies: general books

Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of how fiction has depicted and responded to terrorism in the twenty-first century  Read More >>

This book examines William Blake as a ‘mystic’ and the movements and authors that contributed to this definition...  Read More >>

The twenty-one sermons translated here were not, as was so often the case, exercises in belles-lettres but a sustained...  Read More >>

Throughout his career Shakespeare, although steeped in expert knowledge of military matters, weighted his plays...  Read More >>

A critically sophisticated yet highly readable exploration of Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer.  Read More >>

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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Explores how African American literary representations of maroons in the decade leading up to the Civil War complicate...  Read More >>

The most comprehensive collection of writing by award-winning US poet, renowned translator of Sappho, and trailblazing...  Read More >>

Explores the coevolution of Absolute idealist philosophy and British fiction from the Romantic period forward.  Read More >>

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Argues that J. M. Coetzee's works constitute a form of late modernism that situates life at the heart of questions...  Read More >>

""This book examines the writings and experimental film collaborations of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson,...  Read More >>

Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers  Read More >>

Advances our understanding of the literary legacy of contemporary ecological crises to investigate the interfaces...  Read More >>

Examines Australian avant-garde poetry from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries  Read More >>

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

This book (part-3) explores the development of Urdu, emphasizing adaptation to societal and technological changes....  Read More >>

This book explores the development of Urdu, emphasizing adaptation to societal and technological changes. It offers...  Read More >>

Explores Derick Thomson's far-reaching influence on the 20th-century revival of Scottish Gaelic  Read More >>

Discusses the ways in which post-independence novels and films understand the relationship between subjectivity...  Read More >>

Contends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous...  Read More >>

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

This is the story of Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed, an exploration of when and where ancient myths become metonymic...  Read More >>