Literature: history & criticism books

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This book examines the relationship between music and emotion in the Caroline theatre. Music could be ravishing,...  Read More >>

New edition with translation of St Radegunde of Poitiers’ Treatise of Consolation to Lepers together with critical...  Read More >>

Presents a collection of the Faroese ballads about the Völsung hero Sigurðr fáfnisbani, the pre-eminent dragon-slaying...  Read More >>

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Vocabulario y enseñanza del español delves into the nature and acquisition of vocabulary, its relevance to linguistic...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

The definitive, all-access biography of one of the world's most beloved literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant...  Read More >>

Exposes writers' reliance on conservative language during one of the most radical periods of English history  Read More >>

Considers relationships between modernist literature and literary criticism and argues that new modernist fiction...  Read More >>

Camus on Justice investigates Albert Camus's rich and overlooked theory about the relationship between the absurd,...  Read More >>

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

A reflection on the realities of animal extinction and endangerment, focusing especially on the force of human impact...  Read More >>

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in the Odyssey to better understand...  Read More >>

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Rongbin Han examines the production and consumption of online alt-history fiction in China, offering new insight...  Read More >>

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These letters between Theodore Dreiser, pioneer of literary realism, and the actress and artist Kyra Markham (born...  Read More >>

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

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Examines Scottish Romantic writers' shared focus on the ideological import of an imagined national dead  Read More >>

Der schlesische Dichter Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635-1683) gehört neben Gryphius zu den bedeutendsten Autoren...  Read More >>

Das Berliner Projekt ist die erste historisch-kritische, umfassend kommentierte Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Daniel...  Read More >>

Ce volume réunit les lettres écrites par et à Benjamin Constant au cours de l'année 1827.  Read More >>