Literary theory books

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James’s late works through the lens of minimalism.   Henry James’s...  Read More >>

A Psychoanalysis Influenced by Dissidence, Decoloniality, and Feminism analyzes the intersection of psychoanalysis...  Read More >>

Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a friendly and readable style....  Read More >>

Silence: A Literary History traces silences over twelve centuries of English literature, from the solitary states...  Read More >>

Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a friendly and readable style....  Read More >>

A Psychoanalysis Influenced by Dissidence, Decoloniality, and Feminism analyzes the intersection of psychoanalysis...  Read More >>

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

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

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 >>

Across humanities disciplines, public scholarship brings academics and community members and organizations together...  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 volume considers Samuel Beckett’s fiction and drama as major aesthetic and thematic influences on the work...  Read More >>