Literary studies: general books

The first book to center Black artists' voices on Black aesthetics, revealing a century of evolving relationships...  Read More >>

Establishing the unique opportunities and characteristics of doing research in Publishing and Book Studies, this...  Read More >>

From a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson's life, a story as romantic...  Read More >>

First published in 1945, The Condemned Playground expresses the author’s personal views on art and literature and...  Read More >>

Entering into productive dialogue with recent trends in criticism, Strange matter: Medieval disruptions of time...  Read More >>

This book examines the theological questions posed by portrayals of love, sexual violence, and sacrifice in medieval...  Read More >>

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First published in 1978, Reviewing before the Edinburgh is a study of English literary reviewing during the fifteen...  Read More >>

Edward Mendelson explores the deepest questions of Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway, focusing on the core themes...  Read More >>

How affect and queer feminist theory can help us rethink the Mexican literary canon  Read More >>

This monograph examines the appropriation and ludification of the Germanic heroic tradition in video games as a...  Read More >>

This book presents a sustained and systematic analysis of the totalitarian topos across Vladimir Nabokov’s life...  Read More >>

Die Konfrontation mit dem Tod hat den Menschen immer wieder herausgefordert. In der Zeit des Barock entstanden zahlreiche...  Read More >>

How affect and queer feminist theory can help us rethink the Mexican literary canon  Read More >>

Many things happen in the world that might be miracles, and others are wonders of nature. Both aspects mattered...  Read More >>

Choosing two themes which greatly occupied contemporary writers—the state as an enlarged family, and the family...  Read More >>

Hildegard of Bingen’s understandings of the womb from natural philosophy (in her medical work Cause et Cure) and...  Read More >>

Conversations with Jesmyn Ward display a master artist with a poetic command for words.  Read More >>

A biography revealing as never before Poe's southern gentility and his vast influence on literature and letters...  Read More >>

Charting the twentieth-century course of the literature of the Americas The second volume of Earl E. Fitz's...  Read More >>

First published in 1968, Virgil’s Aeneid is to help all who approach the long and difficult poem seriously (in Latin...  Read More >>

Highlights how the Bildungsroman is reimagined by writers from a wide range of formerly colonized regions across...  Read More >>

Approaches Italian American literature from new critical perspectives and explores contemporary and understudied...  Read More >>

Imagina el parpadeo de la luz de las velas en una corte española, donde el aire vibra con las melodías de las vihuelas...  Read More >>

Mist and ambition curl through the gaslit streets of nineteenth-century New York, where literary dreams shaped a...  Read More >>