Literary studies: general books

Offering a new introduction to an important yet overlooked group of 20th century American poets, this book re-examines...  Read More >>

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 - 30 May 1744) is regarded as one of the greatest English poets, and the foremost poet...  Read More >>

Literary Forensics: How Reading Can Make You a Better Writer is a unique reference guide designed to teach writers...  Read More >>

Aesthetic Criticism offers an account of aesthetic criticism as a far more rigorous approach to art, literature,...  Read More >>

Through a creative juxtaposition of autoethnography and theoretical enquiry, this book documents how Britain’s roads...  Read More >>

'The Sound of the Past' collects nine essays on the topic of Modernism and its relationship to past histories, literatures,...  Read More >>

This volume aims to explore and highlight aspects of the work of Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia. Topics include Sulpicia's...  Read More >>

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This volume takes us to the heart of how the ancient Greeks, from Pindar to Actium, deployed a strong sense of place...  Read More >>

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Aesthetic Criticism offers an account of aesthetic criticism as a far more rigorous approach to art, literature,...  Read More >>

This is a collection of seminal papers by the late Michael Frede on an important period in philosophical history,...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales.  Read More >>

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

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American...  Read More >>

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A major new interpretation of translations of the classics in Tudor England, showing how they applied ancient Greek...  Read More >>

With La nostalgia ferita [Wounded Nostalgia], Eugenio Borgna develops another term in his personal lexicon of emotion....  Read More >>

Whether axolotl, jaguars, or giant snakes, animals have often had the human experience grafted onto them, in a conscious...  Read More >>

Argues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an...  Read More >>