Literary theory books

Examines the development of Thomas Pynchon's foundational novel, V., bringing the author back into the frame of...  Read More >>

This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary models for understanding temporality and reimagining...  Read More >>

Across humanities disciplines, public scholarship brings academics and community members and organizations together...  Read More >>

Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous, building on recent...  Read More >>

It is a collection of essays analysing works of contemporary fiction concerned with innovative models of the mind,...  Read More >>

Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0 is an ambitious attempt to expand and deepen the theory of performatism....  Read More >>

An original intervention in the critical history of Shakespeare’s most famous play, Histrionic Hamlet argues that...  Read More >>

This book explores the diverse means by which Shakespeare’s poetry enriches his drama, illustrating how particular...  Read More >>

In this study, the engaging art created by children’s author Margaret Wise Brown receives the critical attention...  Read More >>

Narratives of Injury redescribes the history of injury from the perspective of those most at risk, rather than medical...  Read More >>

Clear mirrors and scripture in English, revolutionary innovations of the Elizabethan age, inspired Shakespeare’s...  Read More >>

Detective Fiction for Young Readers is an examination of contemporary mystery stories for children and young adults....  Read More >>

This volume shows that the question of the subject is a key one for many poststructuralist thinkers, that they are...  Read More >>

Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall explores the influence of John Milton’s epic...  Read More >>

Water Stories in the Anthropocene explores how climate change has emerged as a major theme in our daily lives as...  Read More >>

The Social Imagination of the Romantic Wife provides biographical information as it relates to the literary works...  Read More >>

Elevating Humanity via Africana Womanism is a short and powerful book, advocating unity/collectivity as a panacea...  Read More >>

By establishing an intellectual dialogue amongst some of the most influential German philosophers of the twentieth...  Read More >>

The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple...  Read More >>

A timely and significant contribution to Palestinian children’s literature from 1967 to the present day, Palestinian...  Read More >>

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of O.V. Vijayan’s work by analysing his fictional and non-fictional...  Read More >>

Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how white American women writers translated...  Read More >>

George Egerton: Terra Incognitas is the first published work to focus solely on Egerton and her literary legacy....  Read More >>

This book brings into conversation geographically diverse theorists to question the meaning, purpose, and place...  Read More >>

This volume considers Samuel Beckett’s fiction and drama as major aesthetic and thematic influences on the work...  Read More >>