Literature: history & criticism books

This book explores the eighteenth-century concept of “mentorship” in literary works, founded on voluntary, reciprocal...  Read More >>

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Welcome to Brian Bilston's ‘writing masterclass': a collection of more than 100 poems woven into a charming and...  Read More >>

Philological Investigations contains essays on diverse historical, literary, and cultural topics of importance to...  Read More >>

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L'ouvrage explore l'épuisement des arts et des médias technologiques chez Samuel Beckett, écrivain du « non-mot...  Read More >>

An essential collection of the nineteenth-century’s most popular Swahili poet working in his foundational mashairi...  Read More >>

Speculative Anthropology: A Literary History of Contamination explores the 'intersection' between anthropology and...  Read More >>

Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black writers, musicians,...  Read More >>

""Reading as Method provides a systematic account of the most influential reading methods in literary studies, demonstrated...  Read More >>

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

How did book reviews shape the fate of novels and their authors during the height of women's literary influence?...  Read More >>

This book utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to explore adaptations of Frankenstein’s Creature across genres...  Read More >>

Using a dialectical perspective in analysis and judgment, in Critical Engagements in Cultural Studies and Comparative...  Read More >>

How the ""Asian girl"" is central to the story of US imperialism and the formation of Asian America Representations...  Read More >>

Beckett and Broadcasting pioneered the study of Beckett and the media in 1976. Originally a doctoral dissertation...  Read More >>

Against an African, African American, and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement's backdrop, this book examines six African...  Read More >>

HINENI is not a performance. It is a rite. Rooted in Jewish tradition and feminist ritual practice, HINENI:...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf’s beloved classic, with a new foreword.  Read More >>

Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and...  Read More >>

Seventeen ingenious essays devoted to snails’ and aquatic invertebrates’ uncanny ways of living. Mollusks’ innermost...  Read More >>

In recounting the fascinating history of how modern Irish writers politically, socially, and polemically organised...  Read More >>

Challenging the view of autofiction as a hybrid of autobiography and the novel, this book redefines it as a mode...  Read More >>

Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture,...  Read More >>