Literature: history & criticism books

Taking up four different political themes--human rights, the relation between public and private space, racial justice,...  Read More >>

Examining journal drawings as an integral—and often delightful—feature of Thoreau’s work In 1850, Henry David...  Read More >>

A new edition of David Mamet's landmark Pulitzer Prize-winning play, published to coincide with the first ever all-female...  Read More >>

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Edward Prime-Stevenson's Imre: A Memorandum (1906), considered one of the first examples of the 'homosexual' novel,...  Read More >>

Sodom and Gomorrah is the fourth volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important...  Read More >>

The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, this second edition...  Read More >>

Five universal stories that celebrate the strength of the human spirit, blending hope, humour and heart.  Read More >>

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A revolutionary anthology of essays and dramatic works by contemporary Disabled theatre artists Rebellious Bodies...  Read More >>

Students of creative writing and Modernist literature, and readers already familiar with D.H. Lawrence's works,...  Read More >>

This book examines how twentieth-century anglophone authors use katabasis to express poetics and position themselves...  Read More >>

An alarming expose of the new challenges to literary freedom in the age of social media when anyone with an identity...  Read More >>

This is the fourth volume of the landmark scholarly edition of William Godwin's letters.  Read More >>

Since its publication in Portuguese in 2015, Regina Przybycien's Black Beans and Diamonds has become a foundational...  Read More >>

This book explores short fiction by migrant women writers in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2020, including...  Read More >>

Tainted Tools addresses the tension between new materialisms' decolonial ambitions and its perception as a White...  Read More >>

This Handbook explores the development and influence of H.G. Wells's intellectual ideas from the late nineteenth...  Read More >>

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Poetry that seeks kinship and hopeful futures amid traumas of colonialism, displacement, and climate disaster. The...  Read More >>

The complete edition of Sylvia Plath's prose including much unpublished and previously uncollected material  Read More >>

This is the first full-length critical study of Keats's letters. Featuring insightful close readings and developing...  Read More >>

Attachment is a powerful new play by Julia Cranney – a heartfelt Liverpool drama about parenthood, hope and adoption,...  Read More >>