Literature: history & criticism books

A study of homoerotic desire and friendship and between King James VI & I, Queen Anna and his favourites through...  Read More >>

This book analyses the way Shakespeare presents the transformation of the early modern natural world through the...  Read More >>

The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, this book covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present,...  Read More >>

Provides nuanced analyses of modernist engagements with car culture  Read More >>

Addresses the main characters’ thoughts on women and on God  Read More >>

This book uses newly discovered material evidence to explore patterns of book ownership, Latin literacy, and the...  Read More >>

Richly illustrated examination of the relationship between art and literature in English art from Hogarth to Constable....  Read More >>

Bringing together intersectional perspectives across disciplines such as the humanities, arts and social sciences,...  Read More >>

The book examines the profound influence of biblical themes on contemporary poetry written in English through the...  Read More >>

Beginning with a friend and colleague's reminiscences of Keith Garebian's early teaching years at a Catholic high...  Read More >>

Explores how modernist fiction interrogated the many promises of ubiquitous media connectivity as key to collective...  Read More >>

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In this innovative and interdisciplinary book, Thomas Gaubatz offers a fresh approach to understanding the literature...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking book shows that women’s songs of the grind mill played a foundational role in the vernacular...  Read More >>

The essential annual guide to the newest voices in literature The essential annual guide to the newest voices in...  Read More >>

This book offers a history of the most critically derided subgenre in American comics: the ""bad girl"" comics of...  Read More >>

Collected interviews with the National Book Award-winning author of Victory Over Japan and many other critically...  Read More >>

An exploration of the various literary and artistic influences of a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance  Read More >>

Explores how modernist fiction interrogated the many promises of ubiquitous media connectivity as key to collective...  Read More >>

""Beyond Brutality draws on feminist analysis and gender studies to examine tractate Sotah of the Babylonian Talmud...  Read More >>

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Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Women’s Writing...  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>