Literature: history & criticism books

What Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and change. Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Deeply witty, attuned to the quotidian, these are necessary poems alive to the awareness of our mortality.  Read More >>

This book attempts to provide a basic theory for all narratives, in order to shake narratology off its age-long...  Read More >>

This book attempts to link the entirety of James Ellroy’s work to major political trends, both historical and contemporary,...  Read More >>

A life affirming play about the elusive connection between loss and rebirth.  Read More >>

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Beginning with her 29th birthday and ending with her 30th, Cazzie tries to mature in the span of one year. Along...  Read More >>

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For thousands of years, humanity has preserved fragmented memories of powerful beings who descended from the heavens...  Read More >>

A rigorous exploration of literature as a tool for social change, revealing how gender and national identity intertwine...  Read More >>

Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthology The Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology—a...  Read More >>

In an era marked by global crises, political polarization, and contested truths, literature has re-emerged as a...  Read More >>

An electric new thriller that asks how far beyond the playground we carry our childhood experiences.  Read More >>

The first musical from Mischief, the team behind The Play That Goes Wrong, offering an uplifting, hilarious, and...  Read More >>

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In her struggle to cope with an uncertain world - a world where nothing seemed to make sense any more - she pushed...  Read More >>

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

An outrageously witty tragicomedy-of-manners about a queer black teenager coming of age, introduced by Mendez, author...  Read More >>

This volume offers new perspectives on Emerson in relation to his contemporary moment; his religious and spiritual...  Read More >>

The Victorians invented environmentalism but struggled with their human-centred perspectives and values. This collection...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive history of Haitian literature published in the English language. It offers crucial...  Read More >>

This book charts the Hollywood studio system's genesis, international dominance, and self-understood demise by way...  Read More >>

An exploration of how everyday Renaissance practices of folding, sending, archiving, and arranging manuscript poetry...  Read More >>

Explores how Ancien Régime writers theorized public communication through acoustic metaphors The salons, cafés,...  Read More >>