Literary studies: general books

In Quest of a Cure explores the literary and medical cultures of European health resorts in the nineteenth and early...  Read More >>

In The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini reimagines Dante’s descent into Hell not as allegory but as lived, historical reality—urban,...  Read More >>

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

This collective study of the James siblings--Alice, William, and Henry--lights up their shared intellectual project:...  Read More >>

Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in...  Read More >>

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Crocker explores what happened to virtue when late-medieval and early-modern English poets thought about the material...  Read More >>

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and...  Read More >>

While comics published in twentieth-century China have enjoyed extensive coverage, this volume showcases recent...  Read More >>

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Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in...  Read More >>

Real Lives in the Eighteenth Century presents a global history using four sets of biographies to illustrate corresponding...  Read More >>

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Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential...  Read More >>

Real Lives in the Eighteenth Century presents a global history using four sets of biographies to illustrate corresponding...  Read More >>

This book investigates the nature of ‘home’ and nation in post-imperial British novels, which deal with the loss...  Read More >>

This book addresses the pressing issues of environmentalism and its representations in African literature. It emphasizes...  Read More >>

Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential...  Read More >>

Presenting a new approach to Euripides’ plays, this book explores the playwright’s ancient tragedies in relation...  Read More >>

Situated between Europe and Asia, and surrounded by three seas, Turkey comprises a diverse environmental and cultural...  Read More >>

The first study of the translations of Andy Warhol's writing and ideas, Translating Warhol reveals how translation...  Read More >>

The first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror.  Read More >>

The first study of Anglophone and Italian novels by Somali diasporic authors, offering a new critical framework...  Read More >>