Literary theory books

Long before the issue of colonialism in Joseph Conrad’s works became a prominent topic in Conrad studies, Florence...  Read More >>

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Empty Nurseries, Queer Occupants intervenes in scholarly debates in child studies by arguing that the empty bourgeois...  Read More >>

Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms from 1840-1880, with...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies combines theoretical and applied essays to provide an...  Read More >>

Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory introduces the key concepts, figures and movements of both psychoanalytic theory...  Read More >>

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, is a unique exploration...  Read More >>

Collection of essays connecting ecocriticism and narrative theory to encourage constructive discourse about narrative's...  Read More >>

Considering Conrad’s transcultural background, this volume investigates the essential features of his expatriate...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1968, this book traces the development of the emotive theory of ethics. Attention is paid...  Read More >>

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We think...  Read More >>

Explores the theoretically fertile concept of the formless as articulated by modern literature and visual arts  Read More >>

"""Collects a range of theoretical approaches and close readings in order to analyze the relationship between secrecy...  Read More >>

Shortlisted for the 2021 BSLS Book Prize Genomic technologies have had a profound impact on understandings of...  Read More >>

Bringing together decolonial, Romantic and global literature perspectives, Transcultural Ecocriticism explores innovative...  Read More >>

This Element approaches the genre of boys' adventure fiction as not just a catalogue of texts but a corpus of books....  Read More >>

This book traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface begins with the assumption that Shakespeare is always accessed...  Read More >>

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Jerzy Kosinski’s viscerally haunting and politically disturbing The Painted Bird finally receives the long overdue...  Read More >>

This book examines Donald M. Allen’s crucially influential poetry anthology The New American Poetry, 1945–1960 from...  Read More >>

Takes aim at two myths of modern criticism: that it is secular, and that it is autonomous. The author argues that...  Read More >>

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Patterson follows the fortunes of Virgil’s Eclogues from the Middle Ages to our own century. She argues that Virgilian...  Read More >>

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>