Literature: history & criticism books

A collection of new translations of short stories by Bengali poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)....  Read More >>

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African provides an unequalled portrait of the everyday life of a Black...  Read More >>

The story behind what makes Beowulf such a remarkable work of art, and why it is of such cultural significance....  Read More >>

One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume – the first of its...  Read More >>

Medieval Icelandic Bodies in ""Tristram ok Ísodd"" examines the depiction of the bodies of the two main characters...  Read More >>

This Element centers the 'Black Pacific' as a generative site for comparative and intersectional methodologies and...  Read More >>

Within the five years before his premature death in 2001, W.G. Sebald made an astounding ascent into the canon of...  Read More >>

Hannah Khalil's new play Love Omar is a love letter to theatre.  Read More >>

An immersive adventure story set during the American Civil War follows four travelers as they escape toward the...  Read More >>

An edition, with translation and commentary, of the transatlantic Latin poetry of Christian Wedsted (1727-1757)....  Read More >>

The first modern editions and annotated English translations of two Latin texts important in literary history.  Read More >>

A major new edition of a challenging play which highlights the importance of empire, Blackness and gender, as well...  Read More >>

Inspired by the career of Judie Newman, a genuinely ground-breaking scholar in the fields of U.S. and postcolonial...  Read More >>

One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume – the first of its...  Read More >>

This Element centers the 'Black Pacific' as a generative site for comparative and intersectional methodologies and...  Read More >>

A moving, funny, and deeply human story of family, football, and finding your way home.  Read More >>

Julia Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky’s work and the profound ways it...  Read More >>

Unearthing the ethical entanglements of early children's books with the Atlantic slave economy. What ethical lessons...  Read More >>

This book presents an analysis of the poet Robinson Jeffers in view of his contributions to recent debates about...  Read More >>

A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, tracing its life over the last century  Read More >>

Deeply witty, attuned to the quotidian, these are necessary poems alive to the awareness of our mortality.  Read More >>

A life affirming play about the elusive connection between loss and rebirth.  Read More >>

This is the first new edition of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations in over forty years. Robert A. Kaster draws on an...  Read More >>

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