Literature: history & criticism books

Provides a wide range of scholarly approaches to the superhero character of Wonder Woman across comic books and...  Read More >>

The first modern editions and annotated English translations of two Latin texts important in literary history.  Read More >>

Examines Henry James’s career-spanning interest in what it means to ""live,"" placing him in dialogue with the cutting-edge...  Read More >>

Inspired by the career of Judie Newman, a genuinely ground-breaking scholar in the fields of U.S. and postcolonial...  Read More >>

Examines a variety of representations and forms of anger in 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone literature to show...  Read More >>

The primary source of in-depth information on music learning, literacy, and reading.  Read More >>

An annotated edition of Marlowe's much-studied drama of pasion and politics which gives students a wealth of contextual...  Read More >>

An edition, with translation and commentary, of the transatlantic Latin poetry of Christian Wedsted (1727-1757)....  Read More >>

Examines contemporary African American artistic production through the lens of Coates's groundbreaking entry into...  Read More >>

This book examines Phyllida Lloyd’s revolutionary and transformative Shakespeare productions, contextualizing her...  Read More >>

Examining literature in the aftermath of Chornobyl and Fukushima, this book considers literary genres and forms...  Read More >>

An engaging biographical introduction to Sigmund Freud, contextualizing his theoretical development within the vibrant...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study to explore the unexamined afterlives of Petrarch’s 1347 Neo-Latin epic of the Second Punic...  Read More >>

An introduction to Terence’s Eunuchus, a dramaturgically complex play addressing questions of behaviour still relevant...  Read More >>

Nostalgia, Fantasy, and the Futures of Masculinity explores how nostalgia-driven fantasies shape contemporary masculinity...  Read More >>

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Unearthing the ethical entanglements of early children's books with the Atlantic slave economy. What ethical lessons...  Read More >>

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Julia Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky’s work and the profound ways it...  Read More >>

This book presents an analysis of the poet Robinson Jeffers in view of his contributions to recent debates about...  Read More >>

A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, tracing its life over the last century  Read More >>

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This is the first new edition of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations in over forty years. Robert A. Kaster draws on an...  Read More >>

This volume compiles critical essays that explore the evolution of progressive poetry in India from the 1920s onwards....  Read More >>

An investigation into how the emotional language in texts intended for solitary women became the foundation for...  Read More >>