Literature: history & criticism books

Shows how art and literature can both describe and instantiate the slow, unredeemed violence of physical deterioration....  Read More >>

""I've struck it!"" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. ""And I will give it away - to you. You will...  Read More >>

Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity....  Read More >>

Takes up the work of artists and theorists who ask what happens when we learn to linger, dwell, live, and work with...  Read More >>

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A stunning new volume from a poet whose body of work illuminates the ways “language can become a tool for carrying...  Read More >>

A comparative account of post-Holocaust poetry, showing the relation between poetic form and the affective experience...  Read More >>

Shows how art and literature can both describe and instantiate the slow, unredeemed violence of physical deterioration....  Read More >>

Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity....  Read More >>

Takes up the work of artists and theorists who ask what happens when we learn to linger, dwell, live, and work with...  Read More >>

Reconsiders major thinkers and works of German Idealism and their legacy for our own restless times.  Read More >>

A translation of the 1843 novella by Edgar Bauer, a significant if overlooked work of German literary history that...  Read More >>

This is a wide-ranging account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly experimental...  Read More >>

Investigates the semantic permutations of 'homeness' in post-war diasporic Anglophone Lebanese novels.  Read More >>

This book examines the history of goblins from the Middle Ages to the present. It shows that goblins—whether interpreted...  Read More >>

The Routledge Introduction to Feminisms in Canadian Literature introduces readers to the shifting historical contexts,...  Read More >>

A new electric play, NICE THINGS explores the relationship of a gay couple, in the midst of their comfortable years,...  Read More >>

Thomas Leonard-Roy explores the writings of six canonical authors--Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell,...  Read More >>

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Contextualises modernist-era feminist writings of Beatrice Hastings and Katherine Mansfield in The New Age magazine....  Read More >>

Offers compelling and multiple contexts of Ngugi's writing over the five decades and in the process underscoring...  Read More >>

First published in 1980, Thomas Gray is a comprehensive biography of Thomas Gray together with a selection of his...  Read More >>

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