Literary studies: general books

Recasts queerness in medieval French romances by juxtaposing key genres for the first time, revealing how their...  Read More >>

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A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE novels by Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Sylvia Townsend...  Read More >>

Assembling renowned international scholars to explore different conceptual framings of Anglophone writing worldwide,...  Read More >>

Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies provides a new analysis of the significance of time in Classical and early modern...  Read More >>

Retracing the steps of a surprising array of 20th-century writers who ventured into the fantastical, topsy-turvy...  Read More >>

A philosophically grounded exploration of the hyperbolic realism of Pynchon and Bolaño within the broader context...  Read More >>

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How did Mnesarete, a girl from Boeotia, turn into Phryne the famous beauty, and how did she end up as an enduring...  Read More >>

The first volume of critical essays on the contemporary Portuguese novel in English, this book theorizes the concept...  Read More >>

Explores the relationship between aesthetic innovation in poetry and resistance to political and cultural domination...  Read More >>

""A long-overdue reassessment of post-1918 Salzburg as a distinct Austrian cultural hub that experimented in moving...  Read More >>

This innovative study asks how genocide can be witnessed through imaginative literature and affect readers who were...  Read More >>

Discovers innovative methods for coming to terms with urgent questions about the ethics and value of the novel in...  Read More >>

Explores the emphasis that contemporary novels, films and television series place on the present, arguing that hope...  Read More >>

Explores influential historical fictions about the Holocaust that deploy narrative strategies of the Bildungsroman...  Read More >>

Exploring the relationship between hermeneutics and the arts, including painting, music, and literature, this book...  Read More >>

The most comprehensive study available of key postmodern British fiction and its legacy in contemporary British...  Read More >>

The Art of the Reprint is a vivid and engaging history of the nineteenth-century novel as it was re-imagined for...  Read More >>

Translation practice, its specialized contexts, and its ethical and political aspects, too often studied separately,...  Read More >>

Adding to Coleridge's already substantial role as a multifaceted intellectual of the Romantic period, Ann Colley...  Read More >>

This book investigates the complex role space and movement play in the representation of South Asian diasporic communities...  Read More >>

Challenging the notion that the 19th-century was a time of declining faith, this book demonstrates instead that...  Read More >>