Literature: history & criticism books

C'est à Paris que l'écrivain Pierre Herbart (1903-1974), s'est formé professionnellement. Revenu d'un voyage au...  Read More >>

Early Daoist Hagiographies offers an engaging new translation of six key Daoist texts that illuminate the interplay...  Read More >>

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change...  Read More >>

""In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of...  Read More >>

Is conflict inherent to the politics of borders? Recent global events, erupting from national, religious, class,...  Read More >>

An examination of Spanglish, Portuñol, and Judeo-Spanish literatures that builds on sociolinguistic understandings...  Read More >>

Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English tests theories of word order change...  Read More >>

Cet ouvrage met sur le même plan Histoire et Littérature. La mise en perspective de l'histoire coloniale permet...  Read More >>

Uncovers the role of children's periodicals in the development of charitable ideals for children between 18401930...  Read More >>

Explores how Shakespeare uses global wisdom literatures to encourage spiritual and moral growth and the arts of...  Read More >>

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

This engaging volume provides an authoritative assessment of the middle period in the career of the widely-read,...  Read More >>

Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence  Read More >>

Examining culture and history from the early nineteenth century to the present, Horizons of Catastrophe in the American...  Read More >>

Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the “neural unconscious” and higher-order...  Read More >>

In Irish Anthropocene, Malcolm Sen traces the ways in which contemporary Irish literature is deeply engaged with...  Read More >>

Three sequences of poems engaging with deserts, consumerism, Alaskan ice, religious icons, and more. The poems...  Read More >>

Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature explores how normative ideas of sex and gender have shaped the development...  Read More >>

Too often, fleeting moments rooted in queer experience have appeared in popular fiction, only to be little remarked...  Read More >>

This is the first book-length, interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between animals and the rational...  Read More >>

This book explores the eighteenth-century concept of “mentorship” in literary works, founded on voluntary, reciprocal...  Read More >>

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A scholarly exploration of the tension of spaces in African American Great Migration novels  Read More >>

Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook is the first anthology devoted to food-related writing in Renaissance...  Read More >>