Literature: history & criticism books

""This book analyzes physical disability in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English plays by Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

Since the Middle Ages, bearshave mostfrequentlybeen seenas objects. For many centuries, Europeans regarded bears...  Read More >>

Providing a survey of Anglophone African detective fiction, from the late 1940s to the present day, this study traces...  Read More >>

This volume addresses Gaskell’s works, networks, contexts, and legacies. Contributors draw on ecocriticism, queer...  Read More >>

Reimagine our relationship withthe natural worldthroughthe Welsh poetic tradition At a time of biodiversity lossand...  Read More >>

A Wedding Celebrant's Guide to writing great love stories.  Read More >>

More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state...  Read More >>

El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's...  Read More >>

'¿Invisibles? Trans-identidades en la España contemporánea' analiza la experiencia, corporeidad, identidad y representación...  Read More >>

Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship...  Read More >>

2025 erscheint der 64. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs.  Read More >>

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Pathbreaking study of recent novels by former East German authors that contribute, by employing tropes of retreat...  Read More >>

Surveys the considerable nineteenth-century American discourse on and response to the writings of the German dramatist,...  Read More >>

Masculine Births is a groundbreaking and interdisciplinary study of John Milton's works about women and early modern...  Read More >>

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A richly imagined, physically charged poetry collection in which history, myth, and protest are transformed into...  Read More >>

The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural...  Read More >>

There is no such thing as a people's philosopher but Duffer O'Grady set out to be one. From his earliest years,...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary series explores the relationship between liturgy and the vernacular in the Middle Ages and...  Read More >>

Author Alice Munro (1931-2024) solved one of the conundrums of science--how to quantify what happens in human interaction....  Read More >>

Poems inspired by the strong women in award-winning poet Amit Majmudar's life, celebrating the influence and energy...  Read More >>

Ansāb al-Asrāf is a genealogical encyclopedia of the Arab-Islamic state. This volume contains biographies of the...  Read More >>

Johanna Spyris (1827-1901) Heidi-Stoff hat zweifellos Eingang in das kulturelle Gedächtnis gefunden - ausgehend...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking volume delves into a diverse selection of trans-themed children’s and adolescent literature...  Read More >>