Literary theory books

Shipwreck Narratives: Out of Our Depth studies both the representation of shipwreck and the ways in which shipwrecks...  Read More >>

Publishing Scholarly Editions offers new intellectual tools for publishing digital editions that bring readers closer...  Read More >>

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Notes from the Crawl Room employs the lens and methods of horror writing to critique the excesses and absurdities...  Read More >>

Literature has always recorded a history of patriarchy, sexual violence, and resistance. Academics have been using...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian aims to trace Quintilian's influence on the theory and practice of rhetoric and...  Read More >>

Literature has always recorded a history of patriarchy, sexual violence, and resistance. Academics have been using...  Read More >>

Honorable Mention, Harry Levin Prize, 2022 (American Comparative Literature Association) Beyond English: World...  Read More >>

This open access book positions itself at the intersection of world literature studies, literary anthropology and...  Read More >>

"Featured on the 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List For over 50 years, Darko Suvin has set the agenda for science...  Read More >>

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Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri...  Read More >>

Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture repositions motherhood studies through the lens of...  Read More >>

An international set of authors engages and expands the analysis of Oakeshott’s writings in often neglected areas...  Read More >>

Awarded the Tudor Vianu Prize for Literary and Cultural Theory by the National Museum of Romanian Literature. Over...  Read More >>

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First published in 1996, Selected Writings of Hannah More brings together some of More’s most powerful work, illustrating...  Read More >>

Interdiscipline is not just a defence of literature and the humanities; it offers a clear and inspiring pathway...  Read More >>

Information: A Reader provides an introduction to the concept of information in historical, literary, and cultural...  Read More >>

Focusing on the period from 1909 to 1915, this incisive portrait of Eliot as a budding writer is as much a study...  Read More >>

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The Shakespeare Multiverse: Fandom as Literary Praxis argues that fandom offers new models for a twenty-first century...  Read More >>

Byronism, Napoleonism and Nineteenth-Century Realism offers a fresh analysis of the nineteenth-century European...  Read More >>

First published in 1965, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff is the first book about the great German poetess of the early...  Read More >>

Migrating Minds contributes to the prominent interdisciplinary domain of Cosmopolitan Studies with twenty innovative...  Read More >>