Literary studies: general books

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Guide to the performance history of Measure for Measure and new critical thinking on the play including its sexual...  Read More >>

A study of homoerotic desire and friendship and between King James VI & I, Queen Anna and his favourites through...  Read More >>

This book ranges across historical periods to offer a comprehensive and much-needed critical prehistory of contemporary...  Read More >>

What does 'Irish romanticism' mean and when did Ireland become romantic? Claire Connolly proposes an understanding...  Read More >>

This new volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series presents Alexander Pope's work, including An Essay on...  Read More >>

A fresh and timely look at Anglo-German relations in English fiction from the Cold War to Brexit.  Read More >>

Drawing on two years of ethnographic research mixed with archival work, Immigrants, Brokers, and Literacy as Affinityexplores...  Read More >>

In 1600, Teresa Martín and Luisa Menéndez were among the witnesses called before the expansionist governor of La...  Read More >>

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Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova’s memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling meditation on...  Read More >>

The whole project has deep connections with games and rules, partly via the notion of constraint in experimental...  Read More >>

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This groundbreaking book shows that women’s songs of the grind mill played a foundational role in the vernacular...  Read More >>

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This monograph is one of the first on the market that focuses entirely on Damon Galgut’s novels. The authors of...  Read More >>

A selection of short stories centred on Athens that portray the wealth and vibrancy of Athens literature and the...  Read More >>

This book combines close literary readings with detailed considerations of visual media to demonstrate that key...  Read More >>

The books offer intimate views of the most important woman of her times as she shares her love of her family and...  Read More >>

Who were the women writers that inspired Jane Austen? Why have they all but disappeared from our bookshelves? Rare...  Read More >>

In this book, originally published in 1974, Cecily Mackworth writes about four outstanding French poets who came...  Read More >>

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Edward Thomas (1878-1917) wrote in the last two and a half years of his life a body of poetry that has endured....  Read More >>