Literary theory books

From Mimesis to Interculturalism offers a series of critical readings of key texts in the history of European and...  Read More >>

This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel...  Read More >>

This book explores how Jacques Lacan has influenced Black Studies from the 1950s to the present day, and in turn...  Read More >>

Czesław Miłosz is at times called an American poet. This means one thing in Poland, and something else in the United...  Read More >>

Writing Politics is a methods book designed to instruct on politically focused literary inquiry through a series...  Read More >>

Paul Eggert remaps the concept of literary critique, providing new justification for close reading and bringing...  Read More >>

Teaching Ethics through Literature provides in-depth understanding of a new and exciting shift in the fields of...  Read More >>

This book has two interrelated objectives; to excavate the non-empirical elements inherent in mainstream academic...  Read More >>

This volume traces the journey of the ideal girl through American girls’ series in the 20th century. Out of Reach...  Read More >>

The Nationality of Utopia investigates utopia’s capacity to deconstruct and redeploy national discourse in ways...  Read More >>

How does narrative reliability help in the production and critique of racial ideologies? Through a refreshing analysis...  Read More >>

This collection presents a counter-history or counter-genealogy of the globalization of French thought from the...  Read More >>

Christina Rossetti’s Environmental Consciousness provides a unique understanding of Rossetti’s identity as an artist...  Read More >>

This volume develops the central (though neglected) Agambenian concept of nudity along with its crucial political...  Read More >>

Drawing together leading scholars from both theological and literary backgrounds, Christian Theology and Tragedy...  Read More >>

An innovative approach to literary stylistic analysis that targets students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature...  Read More >>

This is the story of drag kings and queens at a gay bar in Cleveland, Ohio. Through an ethnography of their weekly...  Read More >>

Theatre-Fiction in Britain presents theatre-fiction as one of the past century’s most vital means of exploring,...  Read More >>

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Aiming to fill this gap and at the same time reconcile approaches in writing and criticism, this book proposes a...  Read More >>

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This book actively engages with current discussion of narratology, and unnatural narrative theory in particular....  Read More >>