Literature: history & criticism books

Savage, brilliant, and darkly comic, Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal shocks readers with its outrageous solution...  Read More >>

This is the book on all of Tolkien's invented languages, spoken by hobbits, elves, and men of Middle-earth -- a...  Read More >>

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

A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce's life, thought and writings The young...  Read More >>

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

Ramesh P. Panigrahi(1944)is present on the stage for the last 60 years serving the readers/ audience in different...  Read More >>

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests...  Read More >>

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Ngøgð wa Thiong'o is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California,...  Read More >>

The creation of meaningful and beautiful similarities as part of a pattern is a vital means humankind has developed...  Read More >>

This volume provides the first comprehensive account of the Italian reception of Eliot's masterpiece Four Quartets....  Read More >>

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Collecting the essays in Speculative Insight: A Journal of Space, Magic and Footnotes from January to June 2026,...  Read More >>

First published in 1985, in this book Malcolm Barnes, the editor of Augustus Hare’s autobiography, tries to elucidate:...  Read More >>

First published in 1984, John Bunyan: Allegory and Imagination is informed not only by an enthusiasm for Bunyan...  Read More >>

Henry Fielding (1933) examines Fielding’s prodigious activity as dramatist, journalist, novelist and magistrate....  Read More >>

This book examines apparently dichotomous aspects of Gaskell’s short stories: her failed fathers and her travel...  Read More >>

Through in-depth case studies, the book examines how intermedial art practices involving moving images can convey...  Read More >>

A collection of fourteen stories interweaving the lives of three generations in the remote town of Neptune, Vermont....  Read More >>

Edward Prime-Stevenson's Imre: A Memorandum (1906), considered one of the first examples of the 'homosexual' novel,...  Read More >>