Literary studies: general books

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I Can't Believe I?m Old is a collection of essays by Janet Torge as she stumbles and is dragged into old age. She...  Read More >>

A creative and analytical study of important facets of classical Persian poetry.  Read More >>

Shows how the study of modern Arabic literature was transformed by Mustafa Badawi.  Read More >>

Explores developments in Arab autobiography over the last 40 years.  Read More >>

Explores the influences that triggered the Arabic awakening, the 'nahdah', from the 1700s onwards.  Read More >>

Studies a neglected area of postcolonial fiction, fostering a better understanding of Iraqi culture and society....  Read More >>

Provides a nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national'...  Read More >>

Explores the intricately crafted rhetorical strategies used by al-Jahiz in his letters.  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 >>

This book offers a fresh reading of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, showing how the Cuban writer reimagined literary...  Read More >>

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Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

King Arthur legends spark enduring debates about leadership, love, and community, weaving medieval texts with modern...  Read More >>

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Argues that Shakespeare's plays are dramaturgically misogynist and that surface-level interventions cannot remediate...  Read More >>

Offers the first full-length study of Cicely Saunders' idea of 'total pain', providing a fresh perspective on the...  Read More >>

A collection of works by early modern men writing in women's voices. This anthology gives students and scholars...  Read More >>

Argues that Victorian literature uses traces of a lingering past to theorise time as non-progressive and discontinuous...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of the essential role Switzerland played in Charles Dickens's imagination  Read More >>

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Contextualises modernist-era feminist writings of Beatrice Hastings and Katherine Mansfield in The New Age magazine....  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between music and emotion in the Caroline theatre. Music could be ravishing,...  Read More >>

Scholarly essays examine the enduring allure of Arthurian legends—from medieval texts to modern adaptations across...  Read More >>