Literature: history & criticism books

This serendipitous encounter leads him to uncover the secret to his dream. Under the shadow of the mythical Haer...  Read More >>

This is book that tries to trace the value construction processes by way of analysing Nobel Prize-winning British...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Much Ado About Nothing About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare...  Read More >>

Taner Can explores the prevailing problems of literary periodisation and canon formation in the history of English...  Read More >>

The author reflects upon her own creative process, attempting to answer the question, ""Why do you write?""  Read More >>

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Nature's ability to satisfy deep human needs is familiar to anyone who has hiked up a mountain, canoed a river,...  Read More >>

As past and future blur, this work from Alexander Kluge reveals the emotional and intellectual currents that drive...  Read More >>

These newly translated stories chart the making of a literary provocateur, one experiment and ethical dilemma at...  Read More >>

Explores the relationship between radical poetry and radical politics from the formation of the welfare state to...  Read More >>

Throughout his career Shakespeare, although steeped in expert knowledge of military matters, weighted his plays...  Read More >>

The first edited essay collection of its kind to focus on innovators and innovations in the mass-market press from...  Read More >>

Brings together queer theory and textual studies to revise our understanding of nineteenth-century print culture...  Read More >>

Demonstrates how African literature grapples with the enforced optimism of US empire that circulates in postcolonial...  Read More >>

The first critical edition of Harryette Mullen's remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-day  Read More >>

A critically sophisticated yet highly readable exploration of Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer.  Read More >>

Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties...  Read More >>

Analyses how the political career of Sir Thomas Overbury exposes the changing systems of power at the English court...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of how fiction has depicted and responded to terrorism in the twenty-first century  Read More >>

Examines the role occupied by the senses and the self in approaches to literary mimesis in nineteenth-century European...  Read More >>

Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

Inspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity and South-South encounters, Indigenous Affinities examines...  Read More >>

The notorious travails and hidden triumphs of a forgotten national poet in Quebec.  Read More >>

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In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript...  Read More >>