Literature: history & criticism books

This book shows how serials deployed the repetition of plots and the traumas representing the sources of women's...  Read More >>

This book frames transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts...  Read More >>

Au milieu du XIIIe siècle, on s'est mis à raconter en langue d'oc les troubadours. On leur a inventé une vie (vida)...  Read More >>

Le livre porte sur la littérature mondiale du XXe siècle et repose sur une hypothèse simple s'il est vrai qu'au...  Read More >>

Life Uncharted by Brandon Karl Hoffmann takes you on an intimate exploration of the human experience-from the tender...  Read More >>

The story of Adam and Eve has been told countless times - but what has been left unsaid? The Banned Book of Adam...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on the interplay between metaphor, making and mysticism, and sheds new light on the power of...  Read More >>

Jack Holden's striking hot new adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning novel about desire and the...  Read More >>

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The virtues and vices of medieval literature can sound historically complicated or dried out. But perhaps the saints...  Read More >>

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This book is for university teachers and students of modern American literature. By focusing on literature's relationship...  Read More >>

This landmark publication offers an expansive, detailed, and varied history of the Bloomsbury group's aesthetic,...  Read More >>

This book explores how poets navigate the dynamic concept of ‘home’ through language, memory, and experience. Examining...  Read More >>

Druids: The Truth offers an unprecedented exploration of one of history's most mysterious and influential spiritual...  Read More >>

Welcome to the 58th issue of Reader's House! With immense pride...  Read More >>

In the shadow of medieval cathedrals, a revolutionary intellectual movement was taking shape that would transform...  Read More >>

Dans La Poésie allemande et l'esprit français, Eugène Lerminier explore les rapports entre la sensibilité poétique...  Read More >>

Dans De la littérature des ouvriers, Eugène Lerminier s'intéresse à la naissance d'une expression littéraire issue...  Read More >>

Dans Victor Hugo, Eugène Lerminier consacre une étude pénétrante à l'un des plus grands génies littéraires du XIXᵉ...  Read More >>

In this timely contribution to debates over the relationship of politics to storytelling, Lee Manion uncovers the...  Read More >>

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Let's learn Chinese characters, words, phrases, and simple sentences with Chinese names, surnames and geography...  Read More >>

Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential...  Read More >>