Literature: history & criticism books

Published for the first time, John Berger and Susan Sontag's collaboration and correspondence across a quarter-century...  Read More >>

Gerhard Heller (1909-1982) fut, durant quatre ans, chargé de la censure de la production littéraire dans la zone...  Read More >>

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A new play from playwright Sarah Power (Grud) about what we owe each other when the past demands a reckoning.  Read More >>

In The Art of Looking Back, Maggie McKinley evaluates the complex nature of nostalgia in the canon of Joan Didion,...  Read More >>

Part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe, this volume presents the first fully annotated edition...  Read More >>

This book offers a reading of Montaigne's Essais through the prism of visual art, chiefly the notion of 'design'...  Read More >>

This is the first in-depth study exploring the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists--including...  Read More >>

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Based on two decades of original research and exclusive access to unpublished material, a ground-breaking biography...  Read More >>

This Element focuses on three Chinese productions of The Vagina Monologues, Yin Dao Du Bai, Yin Dao Zhi Dao, and...  Read More >>

A rigorous exploration of literature as a tool for social change, revealing how gender and national identity intertwine...  Read More >>

Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belongingargues that this negotiation takes place in and through...  Read More >>

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>

""An account of the endangerment and survival of utopian fiction in the 21st century, and how they can provide a...  Read More >>

Tangential Terrains is an ecocritical study of the work of Cormac McCarthy, focusing primarily on his depictions...  Read More >>

This book is a study of the impact of nineteenth-century popular literature on its contemporary society as well...  Read More >>

A clear, accessible guide for Years 9-10, simplifying key quotes, themes, context and tragic form. Features an Act-by-Act...  Read More >>

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the...  Read More >>

This book unveils the latest trends and developments in Asian creative writing, serving as a vital resource for...  Read More >>

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Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthology The Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology—a...  Read More >>

Jackie Kay: Critical Essays offers the first full-length critical study of Jackie Kay’s work. It brings together...  Read More >>

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique...  Read More >>

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