Literature: history & criticism books

This handbook covers the content, form, and implications of children’s and young adult literature within the sphere...  Read More >>

Bringing together book historians, textual editors, and new media theorists, this is an engaging and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which women’s violence, victimhood and villainy are portrayed in...  Read More >>

American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast situates American poetry within a world of global media to...  Read More >>

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped...  Read More >>

A global chorus from the archives of World Literature Today, this landmark collection of fiction, essays, and poetry...  Read More >>

This handbook delves into the innovative intersection of health and environmental humanities, capturing its multidisciplinary...  Read More >>

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Anna Ziegler's remarkable new play: an introduction to another world where ghosts and dreams are as real as anything...  Read More >>

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped...  Read More >>

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Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary study addresses Hungarian perspectives on Ireland and Irish engagements with Hungary from...  Read More >>

Fantasy is one of the most beloved genres of fiction that has only relatively recently entered academia in all its...  Read More >>

An instant cult classic that remains deeply relevant today: both an incisive and funny travelogue and a revealing...  Read More >>

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world...  Read More >>

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The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian...  Read More >>

It is generally understood that the modern colonial encounter warped the experience of time in the postcolonial...  Read More >>

In a forest where every step is familiar, Sára searches for mushrooms—but what she unearths instead are the long-buried...  Read More >>

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An essential volume for bibliophiles and collectors- a complete list of all available Penguin Classics, in a clothbound...  Read More >>