Literature: history & criticism books

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 >>

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 >>

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

Examines contemporary African American artistic production through the lens of Coates's groundbreaking entry into...  Read More >>

Ibsen Apocalypse historicizes the twenty-first century's most audacious theater work to trace the legacies of modernism's...  Read More >>

This volume examines how post-Celtic Tiger Irish literature responds to overlapping economic and environmental crises...  Read More >>

This book examines the fictional category of thriller through the lens of city life using exegetical tools drawn...  Read More >>

Transnational Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Infrastructures, Literatures, Applications concerns...  Read More >>

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

Always Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies...  Read More >>

""In Critical Failures, Miyabi Goto examines the rise of hihyåo, a practice of critical reading, in Japan's Meiji...  Read More >>

""Marianne Tarcov argues that early 20th century Japanese lyric poetry was able to serve as a mode of political...  Read More >>

Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous...  Read More >>

Literatur lebt in ihren Geschichten von Grenzgängern, Eigenbrötlern, Nonkonformisten und Sonderlingen. Das Heraustreten...  Read More >>

An immersive adventure story set during the American Civil War follows four travelers as they escape toward the...  Read More >>

This edited book examines three main understandings of the concept of modernity in relation to translation: “modernity...  Read More >>

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

A propulsive and lyrical version of ancient Mesopotamia’s greatest adventure–tale, by the bestselling translator...  Read More >>

Examines contemporary African American artistic production through the lens of Coates's groundbreaking entry into...  Read More >>

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

The first in-depth study to explore the unexamined afterlives of Petrarch’s 1347 Neo-Latin epic of the Second Punic...  Read More >>