Literature: history & criticism books

Brings together queer theory and textual studies to revise our understanding of nineteenth-century print culture...  Read More >>

Demonstrates how African literature grapples with the enforced optimism of US empire that circulates in postcolonial...  Read More >>

The first critical edition of Harryette Mullen's remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-day  Read More >>

A critically sophisticated yet highly readable exploration of Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer.  Read More >>

Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties...  Read More >>

Analyses how the political career of Sir Thomas Overbury exposes the changing systems of power at the English court...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of how fiction has depicted and responded to terrorism in the twenty-first century  Read More >>

Examines the role occupied by the senses and the self in approaches to literary mimesis in nineteenth-century European...  Read More >>

Inspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity and South-South encounters, Indigenous Affinities examines...  Read More >>

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

""This book examines the writings and experimental film collaborations of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson,...  Read More >>

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Explores Borges' infatuation with Jewish history and culture.  Read More >>

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Tracing the linkages between the postcolonial bildungsroman and spatial discourses, this volume emphasizes three...  Read More >>

Few Urdu essays act as mirrors of literature, tracing journalism, Deccani classics, progressive thought, poetic...  Read More >>

Contends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous...  Read More >>

Examines an important relational shift in British and German cultural depictions of Palestine and Israel since 1987....  Read More >>

Studies the intertwined manner in which Arabic and Turkish literatures took shape as national traditions.  Read More >>

Advances our understanding of the literary legacy of contemporary ecological crises to investigate the interfaces...  Read More >>

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A uniquely comprehensive, groundbreaking two-volume study of Loy's relationship to the human body and soul.  Read More >>

Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

The notorious travails and hidden triumphs of a forgotten national poet in Quebec.  Read More >>

In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript...  Read More >>