Literature: history & criticism books

Poetry's Abracadabra offers a full appraisal of Michael Longley's...  Read More >>

Contends that the great myth of Edgar Allan Poe has damaged both the reader's understanding of Poe's corpus and...  Read More >>

Questo volume terzo di Scritti - 1975-2025 di Franco Marucci, miscellaneo e suddiviso in cinque aree e svariati...  Read More >>

Is Shakespeare a philosophical playwright or not? T S Eliot suggests he is not, a point of view which this work...  Read More >>

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Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion...  Read More >>

The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is...  Read More >>

A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial...  Read More >>

This is the first book-length, interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between animals and the rational...  Read More >>

The first memoir from Geoff Dyer, author of Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, recollecting his childhood...  Read More >>

The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler...  Read More >>

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This original and moving new play explores private and public histories, grief and love – and the making and re-making...  Read More >>

A poetry anthology that highlights animal sentience and subjectivity, compelling an earnest reexamination of what...  Read More >>

This book analyzes how women’s literary production across the Americas engages with the United Nations’ Sustainable...  Read More >>

This book explores how hand-constructed minicomics are made, how they circulate and are stored in readers’ homes,...  Read More >>

This monograph examines Irish narratives produced in Argentina between 1900 and 1994, bringing critical attention...  Read More >>

This volume provides an analysis of the constitution of the idea of furor poeticus (poetic frenzy), the conception...  Read More >>

This radical new work of cultural history is not concerned with the effeminacy of Shakespeare the man, but with...  Read More >>

Provides both scholars and interested readers the context necessary to understand how Allen Ginsberg's life and...  Read More >>

This is the first book-length, interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between animals and the rational...  Read More >>

This book is for scholars and students of Latin American and Caribbean literature, and for a general audience familiar...  Read More >>

The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler...  Read More >>

This is the only stand-alone edition of Dryden's prose available; it presents texts central to Dryden's career,...  Read More >>

The anthology Another Humanism explores forms of subjectivity and critique within the humanist tradition relevant...  Read More >>