Literary studies: general books

This book represents the first comprehensive political scrutiny of the concerns and attitudes of Indian language...  Read More >>

Reading Digital Fiction showcases medium- and platform-specific methods of reader response research by analysing...  Read More >>

This book studies the literary representation of the beach from ancient Greek literature up until today, drawing...  Read More >>

Resonating with contemporary ecological and queer theory, this book pioneers the theorization of the Victorian idyll,...  Read More >>

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Faktoren morphologischer Varianz in den homerischen Epen. Bei der Untersuchung...  Read More >>

Painting the fullest picture to date of early modern England's bilingual poetic culture, this study contextualises...  Read More >>

Law and Literature presents an accessible new study of the many ways in which law and literature interact by providing...  Read More >>

Is literature of political use, and if yes, how might this use be defined? “Reading for Democracy” addresses this...  Read More >>

This new 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature provides a comprehensive survey of...  Read More >>

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Nach einer Darstellung der kulturgeschichtlichen Grundlagen, insbesondere auch der Liebeskonzepte und Geschlechterverhältnisse,...  Read More >>

Delve through a unique exploration of the philosophy underlying The Wheel of Time “The Wheel of Time turns, and...  Read More >>

Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2025 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2024 mit den Reden der*des Preisträger*in...  Read More >>

Islam, Nationalism, and 1000 Years of European Poetry considers the long history of Islam and European poetry and...  Read More >>

This comprehensive Handbook of Melville aims to reintroduce readers to a writer whom they think they know well by...  Read More >>

Railway and novel infrastructure shared the task of getting nineteenth-century society moving in new ways. In canonical...  Read More >>

Reveals forgotten Arthurian lore hidden in the prophetic language of a medieval text  Read More >>

What makes us pensive, feel pleasure and pain at the same time? What are we touched by in (humorous) instances of...  Read More >>

This book integrates several critical-theoretical approaches including object-oriented ontology, queer theory, and...  Read More >>

Composite Selves tells a new story about the German novel in the eighteenth century, engaging with and challenging...  Read More >>

The collection explores Alexander’s long career in African American avant-garde poetry, and sheds light on other...  Read More >>

In Imperial Pharmakon, Sandhya Shetty tells a story of western medicine in colonial India that is multi-sided, full...  Read More >>

Browning was keenly aware of contemporary politics, especially French and Italian, and his reading was vast and...  Read More >>

This project explores the expanding corpus of texts and artifacts inspired by Cirilo Villaverde's most well-known...  Read More >>

Follow Ernest Hemingway's exploits on the Bahamian island of Bimini from 1935 to 1937, the very moment in time when...  Read More >>