Literature: history & criticism books

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet reveals how poetry is a powerful tool of connection and understanding in a fractured...  Read More >>

How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and...  Read More >>

""Challenges prevailing models of Pentateuch composition and proposes new approaches. Focusing on coherence, the...  Read More >>

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Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historically-contextualized...  Read More >>

This volume brings together an international group of scholars to probe the intersections between history and memory,...  Read More >>

Reading Children’s Fairytales: Inside the Gingerbread House brings...  Read More >>

The Feeling of the Form explores the concept of Einfuehlung - the projection of human feelings and life into inanimate...  Read More >>

""This book tells the story of how Victorians experienced the virtual images created by modern optical media. It...  Read More >>

Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory.  Read More >>

This book explores how contemporary Australian ecofiction interrogates and challenges settler-colonial conceptions...  Read More >>

This book is a study in cultural collegiality and interchange. Over the course of a long life, Thomas Mann established...  Read More >>

""This book tells the story of how Victorians experienced the virtual images created by modern optical media. It...  Read More >>

The Feeling of the Form explores the concept of Einfuehlung - the projection of human feelings and life into inanimate...  Read More >>

In this profound exploration, the resilience of the American spirit is tested against the rising tide of misinformation...  Read More >>

This third volume completes the text of this hagiographic collection by the fifteenth-century writer Osbern Bokenham....  Read More >>

The latest entry in the Yale Oriental Series presents descriptions, translations, and commentary for tablets and...  Read More >>

Learning Chinese characters (汉字 hànzì) often feels like unlocking a secret code-but what if the key was hidden in...  Read More >>

Confucius's Analects distills timeless lessons on virtue, justice, and harmony, shaping Chinese philosophy for over...  Read More >>

Using a case study, this Element explores the criticism and creativity generated by eighteenth-century periodicals...  Read More >>

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The Guermantes Way is the third volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important...  Read More >>

Published in 1925, The New Negro is an anthology of poems, stories, and essays by Black luminaries of the period,...  Read More >>