Literature: history & criticism books

Examines the scene of reading in modernism, psychoanalysis and popular novels from the early twentieth century  Read More >>

The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction...  Read More >>

Presents an image of Victorian life-especially womens' lives-that uniquely and surprisingly anticipates our own...  Read More >>

Extends the body of scholarship on Comic Gothic to cover contemporary texts, new media and texts from other cultures...  Read More >>

Establishes Elizabeth von Arnim as an important figure in literary modernism.  Read More >>

The first reference book on First World War newspapers and magazines from the home front to the front lines.  Read More >>

Refines our understanding of Virginia Woolf as a politically engaged writer  Read More >>

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Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media tells a new story of how nineteenth-century evangelicals...  Read More >>

Cet ouvrage, présenté sous la forme de Causeries, propose une lecture historique et critique des conditions de formation...  Read More >>

This Woman's Work: A Listening Session chronicles the feminine and feminized labor behind-the-scenes in hip hop...  Read More >>

Maryse Condé L'identité sans fards Je ne suis pas une femme de racines. Je suis une femme de traces. Les racines...  Read More >>

The twenty-fourth issue of Spectral Realms features a wealth of poetry and prose-poetry from such leading figures...  Read More >>

Addresses the changing geographical and historical background to Conrad's life as a source for his developing artistic...  Read More >>

How do we engage with our metamorphic bodies and brains in ways which resist social and political violences and...  Read More >>

Demonstrates how the career of Britain's first major Black actor, Ira Aldridge, transformed a range of dramatic...  Read More >>

The first critical edition of the final text of Lockhart's Valerius, A Roman Story.  Read More >>

Poetry, grime and dance unite in Debris Stevenson’s explosive new play about learning to fall, fail and find our...  Read More >>

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The first curatorial studies volume to engage with the concept of 'the future'.  Read More >>

The Trickster's Handbook explores one of humanity's oldest and most unsettling figures: the trickster. Found in...  Read More >>

The Trickster's Handbook explores one of humanity's oldest and most unsettling figures: the trickster. Found in...  Read More >>

A literary exploration of Deccan Urdu poetry through biographical and critical portraits of major poets and their...  Read More >>