Literature: history & criticism books

By Heart or From the Scroll studies six grammatika vases depicting scenes from the Odyssey, offering new insights...  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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Exploring Edith Wharton's engagement with global issues in her life and writing Hailed for her remarkable social...  Read More >>

This book examines Chekhov's four major plays, analyzing how his non-aristocratic background influenced his literary...  Read More >>

Bringing together modern poetry’s aesthetic experimentation and modern philosophy’s attention to the problem of...  Read More >>

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Examining a range of Chinese Canadian literature, this book incorporates elements of the author's own family story-her...  Read More >>

In a world where survival is brutal and morality is blurred, Saints, Sinners, and Clickers delves into the haunting,...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

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

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

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

This volume explores the early Soviet reception of Laurence Sterne. By reconstructing individual readerly encounters...  Read More >>