Literature: history & criticism books

The volume explores this relationship from biographical, literary, and philosophical perspectives, focusing on the...  Read More >>

Settling Debt overturns the familiar tale of early antislavery as a pure moral triumph by revealing its uneasy ties...  Read More >>

This book unveils the latest trends and developments in Asian creative writing, serving as a vital resource for...  Read More >>

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This is the first full-length study to explore how contemporary, Western manifestations of Sufism are represented...  Read More >>

Medieval Icelandic Bodies in ""Tristram ok Ísodd"" examines the depiction of the bodies of the two main characters...  Read More >>

Christmas was once the season of ghosts. Before it became a festival of bright shop windows, cheerful music, and...  Read More >>

An immersive adventure story set during the American Civil War follows four travelers as they escape toward the...  Read More >>

This Element centers the 'Black Pacific' as a generative site for comparative and intersectional methodologies and...  Read More >>

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One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume – the first of its...  Read More >>

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 >>

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 >>