Literary studies: general books

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

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Ovid's Metamorphoses and its lasting impact on visual art The Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses is among the most...  Read More >>

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Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature explores how normative ideas of sex and gender have shaped the development...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English tests theories of word order change...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1928, this book discusses the complex relationships between authors, patrons and publishers...  Read More >>

Fascinating conversations with a leading twentieth century literary critic, author, and cultural gadfly.  Read More >>

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence  Read More >>

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change...  Read More >>

""In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of...  Read More >>

Is conflict inherent to the politics of borders? Recent global events, erupting from national, religious, class,...  Read More >>

Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the “neural unconscious” and higher-order...  Read More >>

An examination of Spanglish, Portuñol, and Judeo-Spanish literatures that builds on sociolinguistic understandings...  Read More >>

Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US...  Read More >>

Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles...  Read More >>

In Irish Anthropocene, Malcolm Sen traces the ways in which contemporary Irish literature is deeply engaged with...  Read More >>

A writer-activist explores the hidden dynamics between planet, politics, and stories as literature bears witness...  Read More >>

The 13th volume of the Correspondance générale contains over 400 letters dating from 1823 and 1824. 1823 marks a...  Read More >>

Fifty years after its original publication in 1976, this excellent analysis of the psycho-social dimensions of Shakespearean...  Read More >>

This classic study of the Elizabethan sonnet, first published in 1956, describes the development of the English...  Read More >>

Tennyson’s writing life spanned a period from the Regency to the last decade of Victoria’s reign and he is often...  Read More >>