Literature: history & criticism books

The authoritative guide to the singular career and artistic legacy of one of America's most celebrated playwrights,...  Read More >>

This open access book offers an array of educational perspectives aimed at fostering inclusive, multicultural, critical,...  Read More >>

The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland's past and future Ireland was Britain's first colony and its first...  Read More >>

Breaks new ground in the study of world literature by analysing the genesis of this concept in the context of early...  Read More >>

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the great monuments of modern literature-admired, imitated, and...  Read More >>

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the great monuments of modern literature-admired, imitated, and...  Read More >>

This book addresses the issue of migration to and from Ireland since the 17th-18th century and examines the dynamics...  Read More >>

This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights...  Read More >>

A bold, dialectic engagement with Fredric Jameson's thought Fredric Jameson (19342024) is widely regarded as the...  Read More >>

Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture,...  Read More >>

""Forced by Circumstance gathers foundational essays by, and interviews with, Norma Alarcon, noted scholar of Chicana/o,...  Read More >>

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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston,...  Read More >>

La portentosa Vida de la Muerte del franciscano Joaquín de Bolaños apareció por primera vez en México en 1792. Desde...  Read More >>

""Traces the long history of skepticism and unbelief in Christianity and Western culture that leads to Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

""The Novel Experience makes a plea and offers a methodology for reclaiming and recentering the reading experience...  Read More >>

This book explores how monsters articulate questions about the sacred in nineteenth-century Irish Gothic literature....  Read More >>

""Traces the long history of skepticism and unbelief in Christianity and Western culture that leads to Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

""The Novel Experience makes a plea and offers a methodology for reclaiming and recentering the reading experience...  Read More >>

This timely book shows how complex narratives-from memoirs to propaganda-can illuminate and respond to ideologically...  Read More >>

Blending folklore studies, media theory, horror criticism and cultural geography, this collection charts an unprecedented...  Read More >>

""An English-language translation from German of the literary theorist Rainer Nèagele's concise collection of 8...  Read More >>

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In the shadows of Victorian London, Alice Lumsley's life has been a sequence of entrapment and despair. Committed...  Read More >>

""In Critical Failures, Miyabi Goto examines the rise of hihyåo, a practice of critical reading, in Japan's Meiji...  Read More >>