Literature: history & criticism books

Isobel Maddison examines Elizabeth von Arnim's writing in its historical and intellectual contexts, establishing...  Read More >>

The first book-length consideration of one of the major British left-wing writers of the twentieth century, this...  Read More >>

Examining the wide-ranging and abiding implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers...  Read More >>

Jessica DeSpain examines reprints by Charles Dickens, Susan Warner, Fanny Kemble and Walt Whitman to theorize the...  Read More >>

Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children’s literature, this collection examines the way...  Read More >>

Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas explores how women in England participated in the considerable intellectual...  Read More >>

Reminding readers of John Dryden’s persistent use of occult rhetoric, Armistead argues that Dryden’s otherworldliness...  Read More >>

Renegotiating the cultural topography of the romantic period and the place of romanticism in subsequent cultural...  Read More >>

This collection, a testament to the work of Hilda L. Smith, confronts orthodoxy in social and cultural, scientific...  Read More >>

Though recent scholarship has focused on both maternity and romance literature in early modern England, this is...  Read More >>

Reflecting the myriad options available to London audiences at the turn of the eighteenth century, this volume offers...  Read More >>

This collection makes a critical and creative intervention into ongoing debates about the relationship between poetry...  Read More >>

Approaching The Book of the Courtier as an early modern reader would have, author W.R. Albury explores aspects of...  Read More >>

Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson...  Read More >>

Venice holds a unique place in literary and cultural history. Barnes looks at the themes of war, occupation, resistance...  Read More >>

In this volume scholars from an array of different disciplines have embraced what biography can offer them, expanding...  Read More >>

The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration,...  Read More >>

Placing Virginia Woolf's views in the context of the philosophical and lay accounts of everyday experience that...  Read More >>

Challenging the idea that a writer’s work reflects his experiences in time and place, Cooper locates the action...  Read More >>

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on ""European Shakespeares,""...  Read More >>

This selection of papers by scholarly specialists offers an introduction to the history of the book and book culture...  Read More >>

Without a precise separation between ’science’ and ’magic’, the line between the natural and supernatural worlds...  Read More >>

Blending history, architecture and literary analysis, this ground-breaking study explores the convent's place in...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume discuss the history of the book in South Asia starting with the earliest palm-leaf manuscripts...  Read More >>

This collection brings together published papers on key themes which book historians have identified as of particular...  Read More >>