Literary studies: general books

A new translation of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, telling the story of an audacious...  Read More >>

An important and extensive addition to contemporary proverb studies  Read More >>

The Myth of the Fall in Nineteenth-Century Literature offers fresh close readings of both canonical and less well-known...  Read More >>

Ornament, the Novel, and the Victorian Real explores the intersection of literary form with visual culture in the...  Read More >>

Exploring hermeticism in English, American, and European poetry, this is the only book to discuss hermetic poetry...  Read More >>

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Ancient scholars deployed innovative tools and techniques, both material (e.g., sundials and astrolabes) and literary...  Read More >>

A thorough and much-needed volume of scholarship devoted to a trailblazing author of African American children's...  Read More >>

The first fully annotated edition of one of Henry James's least-known novels. A compelling portrait of a deracinated...  Read More >>

Just as computers have spawned new descriptive language today, then-new book technologies helped build previously...  Read More >>

Drawing on research from the evolutionary sciences, Ania Grant proposes that narrative patterns of romantic stories...  Read More >>

Over 300 anthologies of women’s short stories appeared in the literary market between 1970 and 2000. This publishing...  Read More >>

This book illuminates individual and collective imaginings of postcolonial Bangladesh. It explores the emergence...  Read More >>

The Digital Future of English: Literary Media Studies takes a refreshingly optimistic approach to the future of...  Read More >>

An accessible introduction to the range, value, and diversity of Byron's poetry. Fifty short essays are each devoted...  Read More >>

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Over 300 anthologies of women’s short stories appeared in the literary market between 1970 and 2000. This publishing...  Read More >>

Rather than looking at different manifestations of early modern piracy as geographically and temporally isolated...  Read More >>

Western imaginations of ""Back East"" rewrote America's cultural identity, shaping myths and realities alike Just...  Read More >>

A celebration of the life and works of one of the most influential world literary figures of the twentieth century,...  Read More >>

Postwar French writers were at the vanguard of global literary innovation—from the experimental minimalism of the...  Read More >>

Jenna Kemp beschreibt die Entstehung der Bibel als einen Prozess des kulturellen Gedächtnisses, in dem das Vergessen...  Read More >>

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A multidisciplinary study of the art and science of botany in Shakespeare's time, Marvellous Vegetables in the English...  Read More >>