Literature: history & criticism books

A narrative sequence of lyric poems reimagining Joan of Arc as a framework for queer identity, transformation, and...  Read More >>

With this book, Amy Motlagh considers how racial thinking underpins cultural practices in Iran and the Iranian diaspora....  Read More >>

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In her heartrending sixth collection of poetry, Anne Marie Macari communes with a brother decades gone and calls...  Read More >>

An authoritative perspective on the evolution and politics of theater performance in and beyond India. In Centrestage,...  Read More >>

Perhaps Greece's most important poet, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and...  Read More >>

Exploring the power of smell to build connections and transform our world Smell is a vital, if underappreciated,...  Read More >>

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

With this book, Amy Motlagh considers how racial thinking underpins cultural practices in Iran and the Iranian diaspora....  Read More >>

A landmark book-the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen...  Read More >>

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Understanding the source of our current political and social malaise through our emotional responses to it  Read More >>

In What's in a name?, historian Susan Amussen traces William Shakespeare's life through early modern England to...  Read More >>

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Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American...  Read More >>

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A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights...  Read More >>

In Queer Forms and Pronouns, author Lena Mattheis explores gender nonconformity (GNC) pronouns in Anglophone literature...  Read More >>

Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  Read More >>

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Examines the reasons why the Folio came into being in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, and how the now...  Read More >>

Explores the stylistic and formal inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers from Britain, the United States,...  Read More >>

A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent...  Read More >>