Literature: history & criticism books

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Challenging the belief that medieval marriages were loveless, this book analyzes troubadour poetry and historical...  Read More >>

James Wright (1927–80) was considered one of the major poets of his era, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1972, even...  Read More >>

This book offers a fresh reading of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, showing how the Cuban writer reimagined literary...  Read More >>

In the deep forests of myth and memory, the Green Knight stands as one of the most enduring and mysterious figures...  Read More >>

Beyond the final shore, where mist meets memory and the western sea holds the silence of kings, Avalon waits.  Read More >>

Since its publication in Portuguese in 2015, Regina Przybycien's Black Beans and Diamonds has become a foundational...  Read More >>

'Recasting the Bygone Witch: Representations of Lesser-Known Witches in Popular Culture' is an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of Black women writers in the official journal of the African Methodist Episcopal Church  Read More >>

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas:...  Read More >>

Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler's Kindred...  Read More >>

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They don't begin as heroes. They begin as people trying to get through an ordinary day - students, teachers, parents...  Read More >>

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Beowulf: An Epic Enigma (Book I) presents a bold new translation and commentary that reveals the poem as a riddling...  Read More >>

Insightful essays explore a prolific writer’s vast work of novels, plays and journalism, addressing issues of feminism,...  Read More >>

Interviews that illuminate a life shaped by jazz, history, and verse  Read More >>

An exploration of how comics illuminate medicine, religion, and identity  Read More >>

A revealing account of how agents have shaped book publishing and the literary canon from the 1950s to today Middlemen...  Read More >>

This book provides an exciting and informed overview of new, emerging, and radical approaches to the long ghost...  Read More >>

This volume presents the work of a group of international academics on the topic of reproduction and motherhood...  Read More >>

The first major study of contemporary Nordic petrofiction. Through a variety of cultural texts, including the Nordic...  Read More >>