Literary studies: general books

The first study of Anglo-Hispanic exchanges in print culture between the Spanish-American War and the Spanish Civil...  Read More >>

This book examines Mohja Kahf’s use of parody and allusion in E-mails from Scheherazad to deconstruct Orientalist...  Read More >>

Examining the works of science fiction authors such as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Anthony Burgess, and Samuel...  Read More >>

With a focus on regions neglected in African Anglophone literature (such as Egypt, Libya, and Ethiopia), this book...  Read More >>

Historians and literary historians alike recognize David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829-1830)...  Read More >>

This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout...  Read More >>

Textile Shakespeare explores the centrality of textiles to life in early modern England. Cloth and fabric displayed...  Read More >>

A vital resource for anyone interested in literature and politics, this is the first in-depth study of epistemic...  Read More >>

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Provides an edition and translation of the Trees of Vices and Virtues by Conrad of Hirsau (c.1070 – c.1150), as...  Read More >>

It focuses on the life writings of three Colombian social movement leaders and contrasts them with the memoirs of...  Read More >>

The volume examines popular sensibilities via textual, visual, performative, spatial, digital frames of inquiry...  Read More >>

This book considers how the literature of the Somali diaspora deploys themes of ambivalent belonging in cosmopolitan...  Read More >>

How do twenty-first-century Black satirists rewrite American ideas of race? This book plunges into the New Black...  Read More >>

A lively way into the works of beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, this book provides fresh understanding...  Read More >>

The idea underlying this Element is that a historical text is a translation of past events. Translating His-stories...  Read More >>

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Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing is the first dedicated study of British and Irish...  Read More >>

This book focuses on minor characters in fiction, primarily nameless and unimportant figures found within medieval...  Read More >>

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It brings together scholars from literature, linguistics, and media studies to explore how storytelling can confront...  Read More >>

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Offers a dedicated and detailed theorization and genre study of the ""bonkbuster,"" a phenomenally popular genre...  Read More >>