Literature: history & criticism books

Poetry that centers its movement on repetition—orbiting, unwinding, and returning. Integrating Lacanian and Freudian...  Read More >>

Published in 1992, Teodolinda Barolini's The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante was a clarion call for a paradigmatic...  Read More >>

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A meditation on damage, aging, and injustice from a poet whose work “live[s] in a realm of classical purity” (Anthony...  Read More >>

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and...  Read More >>

This book re-evaluates traditional narratives of 19th-century modernity by placing Black women at the center of...  Read More >>

Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the...  Read More >>

Furnishing a novel take on the poetry of the 1930s within the context of the cultural history of the Depression,...  Read More >>

The book is a study of the ways that white radicals deployed the physical and literary image of amputation during...  Read More >>

This book shows how serials deployed the repetition of plots and the traumas representing the sources of women's...  Read More >>

This book frames transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts...  Read More >>

Au milieu du XIIIe siècle, on s'est mis à raconter en langue d'oc les troubadours. On leur a inventé une vie (vida)...  Read More >>

Le livre porte sur la littérature mondiale du XXe siècle et repose sur une hypothèse simple s'il est vrai qu'au...  Read More >>

Life Uncharted by Brandon Karl Hoffmann takes you on an intimate exploration of the human experience-from the tender...  Read More >>

The story of Adam and Eve has been told countless times - but what has been left unsaid? The Banned Book of Adam...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on the interplay between metaphor, making and mysticism, and sheds new light on the power of...  Read More >>

Jack Holden's striking hot new adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning novel about desire and the...  Read More >>

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The virtues and vices of medieval literature can sound historically complicated or dried out. But perhaps the saints...  Read More >>

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This book is for university teachers and students of modern American literature. By focusing on literature's relationship...  Read More >>

This landmark publication offers an expansive, detailed, and varied history of the Bloomsbury group's aesthetic,...  Read More >>