Literature: history & criticism books

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 >>

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

In Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan, Ariel Stilerman examines the transformation of classical Japanese...  Read More >>

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

An exploration of how comics illuminate medicine, religion, and identity  Read More >>

Interviews that illuminate a life shaped by jazz, history, and verse  Read More >>

The Baltic regionarguablysawthe birth of horror cinema when Germany produced its cycle of silent horror films. However,it...  Read More >>

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""A blend of inquisitive narrative, philosophy, literary theory, and experimental lyricism""-- Provided by publisher....  Read More >>

Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova’s memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling meditation on...  Read More >>

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

A collection of new translations of short stories by Bengali poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)....  Read More >>

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African provides an unequalled portrait of the everyday life of a Black...  Read More >>

An engaging biographical introduction to Sigmund Freud, contextualizing his theoretical development within the vibrant...  Read More >>

Simon Goldhill recounts the untold history of Cambridge's gay academic community and the remarkable impact that...  Read More >>

In this wide-ranging collection of reviews by the writer and critic Al-Shahari, the full flower of Arabic writing...  Read More >>

Nicholas Jenkins explores war, love, and politics in the early works of W. H. Auden, one of the twentieth century’s...  Read More >>

A masterwork of poetic urban observation, The Stroller of Paris is Léon-Paul Fargue’s luminous love letter to the...  Read More >>

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