Literature: history & criticism books

Winner of the 2020 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize. In Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire, Lara Blanchard...  Read More >>

Male homosexual narratives in various genres and media—from “high-brow” literature by distinguished female authors...  Read More >>

With over 50 Old High German and Old Saxon texts arranged according to subject area, this book presents the entire,...  Read More >>

A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London  Read More >>

This volume in offers a definitive account of newspaper and periodical press activity across Britain and Ireland...  Read More >>

Comprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain...  Read More >>

A remarkable collection of Lyn Hejinian's previously uncollected early poems from 1963 to 1983  Read More >>

Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain  Read More >>

Offers a new understanding of doubt in Montaigne's Essais and early modern intellectual culture  Read More >>

Recovers a forgotten and short-lived form of American fiction: the midcentury minor novel  Read More >>

Examines the work and reception of the Arab emigre writer Gibran...  Read More >>

This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history...  Read More >>

In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks...  Read More >>

Lyrical Translation is a literary history of modern Korean poetry's origins and its development through translation....  Read More >>

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about...  Read More >>

Imagines great artificial fiction that represents the world in creatively nonhuman ways while challenging how we...  Read More >>

Throughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called “traditional” poetic meter,...  Read More >>

Japanese writers' engagement with kanshi unveils a journey from the Meiji era's mastery of Literary Sinitic poetry...  Read More >>

In Karen Blixen's Search for Self, Patti M. Marxsen presents a twenty-first-century reconsideration of Blixen's...  Read More >>

Chekhov's fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to...  Read More >>

'Brilliant and discursive' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times 'Hughes-Hallett's exemplary reappraisal … throws...  Read More >>

How one visionary inspired 200 years of art, poetry, and protest. Weaving between the historical, cultural and personal,...  Read More >>

Chekhov's fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to...  Read More >>

This is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. It contains the text of Walter Pater's...  Read More >>

In Quest of a Cure explores the literary and medical cultures of European health resorts in the nineteenth and early...  Read More >>