Literary theory books

Excited by the scientific breakthroughs of the day, David Hume set out to construct a science of the mind. 1748's...  Read More >>

In this 1920 collection of early critical essays, Eliot proposes rules for how a poet should relate to a poem and...  Read More >>

Frantz Fanon's 1961 masterpiece is both a powerful analysis of the psychological effects of colonization and a rallying...  Read More >>

Published in 1994, The Bell Curve caused uproar. Herrnstein and Murray claim that intelligence is the key factor...  Read More >>

Best known for her novels, Toni Morrison enters the realm of literary criticism to draw attention to the often overlooked...  Read More >>

In his ground-breaking 1936 study The General Theory, Keynes argues that traditional economics has misunderstood...  Read More >>

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Ever since the nineteenth century, people have claimed that the prosperity enjoyed by the First World was the result...  Read More >>

Kantorowicz’s 1957 study of 1,200 years of monarchy has had a profound affect on the way academics think about the...  Read More >>

War Without Mercy examines Japanese-American relations during World War II and investigates links between popular...  Read More >>

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Sharing Common Ground makes a compelling contribution to an important emerging field that affects a broad swath...  Read More >>

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Rawls’ 1971 text links the idea of social justice to a basic sense of fairness that recognizes human rights and...  Read More >>

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Philip Zimbardo is fascinated by why people can behave in awful ways. Some psychologists believe those who commit...  Read More >>

Though written more than 500 years ago, Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince is still both widely read and very influential....  Read More >>

Structural Anthropology (1958) not only transformed the discipline of anthropology, it also energized a movement...  Read More >>

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer, Guns, Germs, and Steel attempts to answer why human history unfolded differently on...  Read More >>

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