Literary theory books

This book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe appropriate supernatural devices like prophecies, dreams, beliefs,...  Read More >>

This collection explores the consequences of accentism in the Shakespeare industry across languages and cultures,...  Read More >>

This is the first volume since George Sherburn’s (published 1934) to reconsider how the most influential poet of...  Read More >>

Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis addresses what is arguably the most crucial issue of human history...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States extends the growing body of scholarship on Shakespeare’s...  Read More >>

Pornographic Sensibilities stages a conversation between two fields—Medieval/Early Modern Hispanic Studies and Porn...  Read More >>

Tackling the contentious subject of Dickens and religion, this book sets his religious quest within the context...  Read More >>

This book examines utopian/dystopian fiction’s enduring preoccupation with memory, asserting through readings of...  Read More >>

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

This book reflects on the ‘literary’ in literature. Whether oral expression, Nobel laureates, or the rupturing event,...  Read More >>

The book draws on the history of economics, literary theory, and the history of science to explore how European...  Read More >>

The Tree of Life and Arboreal Aesthetics in Early Modern Literature explores the vital motif of the tree of life...  Read More >>

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Differentiating informality from intimacy in its introduction, Illegitimate Freedom: Informality in Modernist Literature,...  Read More >>

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

This book systematically analyses representations of Black masculinity in gay men’s pornography. This book unpacks...  Read More >>

This volume explore the connection between the prevalence of violent, sexually charged touches in eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

This original collection of essays explores the work and life choices of Spanish women who through their writings...  Read More >>

To make sense of the material afterlives of animals, this book draws together multispecies perspectives from literary...  Read More >>

Minds on Stage expands our understanding of Greek tragedy, and uses Greek tragedy as a way to explore cognitive...  Read More >>

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This book focuses on the performance of oral epics and explores its significance for interpretation. The discussion...  Read More >>

"""Examines trans-Pacific poets and writers to suggest a different way of understanding Oceanic literature and its...  Read More >>

Following the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, Spatial Literary Studies draw upon diverse critical...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship...  Read More >>