Literature: history & criticism books

Eve de Charles Peguy. Ecrivain, poete et essayiste francais (1873-1914).  Read More >>

In Print for the Pocket, Madeline Zehnder examines how nineteenth-century Americans understood a common but often...  Read More >>

Blood of Others offers a cultural history of Crimea and the Black Sea region, one of Europe's most volatile flashpoints,...  Read More >>

Studies Taylor Swift's lyrics in relation to the ""literary,"" expanding the critical discourse surrounding Swift...  Read More >>

Postcolonial theory and its bedfellow, decolonial theory, are the most flourishing products of academia in recent...  Read More >>

This Element investigates the challenges and possibilities of writing histories of trauma. It explores how the historiography...  Read More >>

In recent decades, digital scholarly editions have gained prominence, the shift from print to digital demands not...  Read More >>

It's difficult to name a question more contentious than the question of credentialing for academic librarians. This...  Read More >>

Le Liban, pays message au coeur des volcans de l'histoire. Il y a un siècle, les peuples ont cru à la paix; quelle...  Read More >>

Acclaimed author and translator Sophus Helle considers an ancient creation story with themes of humanity, class...  Read More >>

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The author of Wuthering Heights and strangest of the Brontë sisters is brought back to life in this stormy biography...  Read More >>

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Before I’m Dead is a funny, furious and deeply human play exploring grief and what it truly means to see another...  Read More >>

Two important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate now combined in a...  Read More >>

Pascal Quignard delves into the uncanny bond between recognition and loss, outlining how our earliest experiences...  Read More >>

The Epic of Florida brings to light a neglected tradition of colonial poetry from the sixteenth century. Written...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination...  Read More >>

The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward God  Read More >>

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure...  Read More >>

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