Literary studies: general books

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 >>

Explores how modernist fiction interrogated the many promises of ubiquitous media connectivity as key to collective...  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 >>

This broad-ranging book draws on Freudian and post-Freudian theory to offer a new and original perspective on courtly...  Read More >>

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Revealing how legal developments in Britain shaped and were shaped by imaginative writing, this volume provides...  Read More >>

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This volume provides the first English (or indeed any modern) translation of two early ninth-century hagiographical...  Read More >>

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library...  Read More >>

Supported by careful, theoretically and critically sophisticated analyses of exemplary literary works, this important...  Read More >>

A critical edition of all eleven Arthurian texts in the 'Percy Folio', with transcriptions taken directly from BL...  Read More >>

For centuries, Urdu-speaking poets and their audiences have gathered for mushāʿirahs, literary competitions for...  Read More >>

By questioning conventional science narratives and advocating for sustainable, inclusive, and equitable applications...  Read More >>

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing was published in 1917 (and republished in 1922) as a result of an adaptation by Asa Don...  Read More >>

Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racism...  Read More >>

An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and proliferates...  Read More >>

Can revolution unfold in chapters? Seriality has long shaped how we read, think, and act; Peter Hitchcock explores...  Read More >>

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. Mad Fictions is the first...  Read More >>

Disruptive Discourses by Francophone Women engages with the notion of disruption in women’s cultural production...  Read More >>