Literature: history & criticism books

Combining extensive research into sexual violence with the author's personal experiences as a feminist activist,...  Read More >>

Since its founding, the United States has colonized more than five hundred Indigenous nations in North America and...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking collection gathers essays, poems, and hybrid...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1992, Le Bel Inconnu edited and with an introduction by Karen Fresco, presents on facing...  Read More >>

Collected literary and film criticism and more-now revised and updated with new material-from an award-winning,...  Read More >>

Incredible interviews with film directors and creature FX creatives, a chat with author Adam Nevill, and a horde...  Read More >>

A historical sociopolitical analysis of working-class women's writing.  Read More >>

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The iconic Renaissance songbook–an inspiration to love poets since the fourteenth century–in an elegant, fluid and...  Read More >>

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The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles...  Read More >>

This book explores a unique and under-researched chapter in German-Jewish cultural history: the engagement of German-speaking...  Read More >>

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This book examines the relationship between philosophy and literature. It encompasses political philosophy, the...  Read More >>

Since its founding, the United States has colonized more than five hundred Indigenous nations in North America and...  Read More >>

Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different...  Read More >>

This book analyzes contemporary Anglophone road narratives from a transcultural perspective. By bringing together...  Read More >>

Can revolution unfold in chapters? Seriality has long shaped how we read, think, and act; Peter Hitchcock explores...  Read More >>

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