Literary theory books

This book examines the retranslation of Hamlet in Germany in the 20th and the early 21st century. It adopts a comparative...  Read More >>

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Grotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedländer (aka Mynona), Til Brugman,...  Read More >>

Multilingual Literature as World Literature examines and adjusts current theories and practices of world literature,...  Read More >>

Through readings of Ishiguro’s repurposing of key elements of realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination...  Read More >>

This book sets out to determine the validity of an accusation made against Jacques Lacan by Noam Chomsky in an interview...  Read More >>

2022 Lammy Finalist, LGBTQ Studies Can queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation...  Read More >>

WINNER, 2021 HTI BOOK PRIZE Resist! This exhortation animates a remarkable range of theological reflection on...  Read More >>

WINNER, 2021 HTI BOOK PRIZE Resist! This exhortation animates a remarkable range of theological reflection on...  Read More >>

2022 Lammy Finalist, LGBTQ Studies Can queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation...  Read More >>

This edited collection aims at highlighting the various uses of water in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

This book explores how Romantic-era England conceptualized its relation to its constituent parts and the larger...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary book emphasises the importance of T. S. Eliot’s mother, Charlotte, to his life and works....  Read More >>

Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction provides a fresh approach to reading material things in modern fiction, accounting...  Read More >>

This book brings together several major essays on foundational topics of narrative studies and the theory of fictionality...  Read More >>

Modernist Intimacies traces modern intimacy back to the first decades of the twentieth century, showing that modernism...  Read More >>

Dissects the benefits and limitations of Materialist theory for works of art. Charles Altieri argues that while...  Read More >>

Comprehensively surveys the vampire as a cultural phenomenon.  Read More >>

This collection explores Gissing’s place in the narrative of fin-de-siècle literature. Together, chapters here theorise...  Read More >>

Brian Russell Roberts dispels continental-centric US national mythologies to advance an alternative image of the...  Read More >>

While Faulkner’s Ethics does not claim that Faulkner read Sidgwick’s work, this book traces Faulkner’s moral sensitivity....  Read More >>

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Brian Russell Roberts dispels continental-centric US national mythologies to advance an alternative image of the...  Read More >>

Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties explores the relationship...  Read More >>

This book argues that certain works by Michael Moorcock, Iain Sinclair, Penelope Lively, Peter Ackroyd, and J.G....  Read More >>