Literature: history & criticism books

Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthology The Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology—a...  Read More >>

An electric new thriller that asks how far beyond the playground we carry our childhood experiences.  Read More >>

The first musical from Mischief, the team behind The Play That Goes Wrong, offering an uplifting, hilarious, and...  Read More >>

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The intriguing, twisting and heart-warming new novel from the author of Found in a Bookshop and The Second Chance...  Read More >>

A guide to reading, writing and appreciating poetry - the fun and easy way. Advice is given on how to polish and...  Read More >>

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

An outrageously witty tragicomedy-of-manners about a queer black teenager coming of age, introduced by Mendez, author...  Read More >>

Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthology The Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology—a...  Read More >>

This volume offers new perspectives on Emerson in relation to his contemporary moment; his religious and spiritual...  Read More >>

The Victorians invented environmentalism but struggled with their human-centred perspectives and values. This collection...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive history of Haitian literature published in the English language. It offers crucial...  Read More >>

This book charts the Hollywood studio system's genesis, international dominance, and self-understood demise by way...  Read More >>

A darkly comic and celebrated new play that offers a fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, cults... and...  Read More >>

Après Les Écrivains voyageurs, l'auteur consacre ce nouvel ouvrage aux voyageuses écrivaines, ces femmes qui, du...  Read More >>

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the...  Read More >>

Private, previously unpublished conversations between the author and one of the twentieth century's greatest dramatists...  Read More >>

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument...  Read More >>

This inspirational book is a delightful gift for readers and fans of Charlotte Bronte's novels.  Read More >>

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This volume offers new perspectives on Emerson in relation to his contemporary moment; his religious and spiritual...  Read More >>

The Victorians invented environmentalism but struggled with their human-centred perspectives and values. This collection...  Read More >>