Literary theory books

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 >>

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

The Hidden D. H. Lawrence is a new study of the psychological and literary aspects of a great writer’s lyrical genius....  Read More >>

Understanding (Post)feminist Girlhood Through Young Adult Fantasy Literature takes advantage of growing critical...  Read More >>

Critical Pedagogy and the Trouble with Consciousness Raising incisively critiques the consciousness-raising project...  Read More >>

This book on translation borrows from the introduction to Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. It will interest...  Read More >>

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

What does a single recurring image reveal about the hidden architecture of a novelist's entire body of work? Across...  Read More >>

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Masculinities and Mental Health explores literary texts, images, and performances which engage with the under-explored...  Read More >>

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