Literature: history & criticism books

This handbook is to provide a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, African, and Latin...  Read More >>

THE WATSON CHRONICLES 5TH ANNIVERSARY STORY 5 years after the events of ""A Scandalous Affair,"" Sherlock Holmes...  Read More >>

Looking at medieval and modern cultural practices, this book shows how the medieval past can be used by scholars...  Read More >>

This book is a collection of essays by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves...  Read More >>

This book explores the development of Sinhala stylistic drama from its earliest manifestations to the post-independence...  Read More >>

This book introduces the ‘southern criminology’ movement, explores its theoretical, methodological, and philosophical...  Read More >>

This book comprises a collection of essays that address a significant gap in the study of Malaysian Literature in...  Read More >>

This book is a study of the print cultures of the four principal Celtic languages — Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton...  Read More >>

Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games investigates the potential of queer conceptions of time...  Read More >>

Seismic shifts in the theatrical meanings of The Merry Wives of Windsor have taken place across the centuries as...  Read More >>

Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence...  Read More >>

Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms is the first of two volumes...  Read More >>

The book explores the aftermath of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the effects of war and nationalism...  Read More >>

When pregnant Bec enters early labour, she finds herself leaning on ex-boyfriend and father of her baby Alex literally...  Read More >>

Questions Thomas Moore's association with cultural nationalism by tracing his interest in motion and the transatlantic....  Read More >>

Jesus' invitation is simple enough: ""Come, follow me"" (Matthew 4:19). But both the conditions of our culture and...  Read More >>

This book reveals how, in southern Chile, famous poet and politician Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) assembled one of the...  Read More >>

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Explores Virginia Woolf as a transnational figure, her composite legacy and her impact in various cultural and political...  Read More >>

Examines how women's experimental illness narratives are driving new conceptions of contested illness.  Read More >>

Understanding Jonathan Swift's medical and literary life The Dean Disordered bridges biography and literary...  Read More >>

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This book is the most comprehensive work in English on premodern Japanese linked verse (renga).  Read More >>

A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature...  Read More >>